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Award-winning Boston-based bridge designer and architect Miguel Rosales has transformed the city with his iconic designs for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, the Frances Appleton Pedestrian Bridge, the newly dedicated Bill Russell Bridge, and the redesign of the Longfellow Bridge, as well as bridges in Revere and Quincy. Join Rosales to celebrate his design contributions and recently released book, Bridges as Structural Art. A book signing will follow a short talk by Rosales that dives into his trajectory of becoming one of Boston’s most innovative bridge designers.

Rosales is renowned for his ability to create iconic bridges balancing aesthetic and technical principles. Bridges as Structural Art showcases 25 bridges designed by Rosales throughout the United States and abroad. These transformational structures have become sources of pride in their communities and stand as tangible expressions of the art of bridge design. 

Pair a good book with a glass of wine from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar recommended by sommelier Lauren Friel of Rebel Rebel and Dear Annie. Complete your evening with an exploration of our building designed by award-winning Diller Scofidio + Renfro—their first building in the U.S (2006). Hear from Liz Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro via the Bloomberg Connects app.  

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Tune in from home for a three-part online series of presentations and discussions on art, history, and community exploring the 250-year history of the Shakers — a Christian sect of pacifists recognized for communal living and gender and racial equality — and their remarkable influence on contemporary art and artists. Hear live presentations from different speakers throughout New England each week for three weeks, including from the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard University and Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in Maine. This program accompanies the ICA exhibition Believers: Artists and the Shakers.  

Pre-registration for this online series is required in order to receive web links. This series of presentations will be offered using Zoom.  

Week 1: March 11 | Contemporary Art and the Shakers  

Week 2: March 18 | Shakerism and Sabbathday Lake, Maine  

Week 3: March 25 | Spirit-Driven Women Making Art

Expand your knowledge of the Shakers after the series concludes and meet featured speakers Brother Arnold Hadd and Jeffrey De Blois in person during The Artist’s Voice program and community reception on April 10.  

Join Assistant Curator Tessa Bachi Haas for a deep dive into Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, the first retrospective to trace the evolution of Stanley Whitney’s unique and powerful abstractions. In this conversation, discover how Whitney developed his iconic gridded format and explore 50 years of powerful, color-saturated painting.

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Have you ever wondered how costumes are made? Join Boston Ballet Director of Costumes Howard Merlin and Costume Shop and Children’s Wardrobe Manager Kelly Kerrigan Jacobus to hear about the people and processes behind the exquisite costumes worn by Boston Ballet dancers. This conversation is moderated by Eliza Mecklenburg, ICA Education Coordinator and organizer of the installation Costuming for the Stage and Screen.

Costuming for the Stage and Screen is an interactive installation created in collaboration with the Boston Ballet Costume Shop to provide a behind-the-scenes look into how costumes are constructed for Boston Ballet. This installation is open to visitors during Charles Atlas: About Time and connects to Atlas’s early experiences as a costume designer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

About the Panelists

Tickets will be available March 12 for ICA members and March 19 for the general public. 

Nationally recognized artists Janine Antoni and Pallavi Sen reflect on how encountering the Shakers —a 250-year-old Christian sect of pacifists who value the importance of “attempting to live an extraordinary life” as ordinary individuals—has influenced them in the studio and beyond. The artists will be joined in conversation by  Brother Arnold Hadd of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine— one of two practicing Shakers in the United States. Jeffrey De Blois, the ICA’s Mannion Family Curator and organizer of Believers: Artists and the Shakers, will moderate this timely conversation on art, life, and community. A reception immediately follows the speaking portion of this program.  

Make the most of your ICA visit!  Explore the galleries and visit the ICA’s featured exhibition: Believers: Artists and the Shakers.  

About the Artists

Believers: Artists and the Shakers is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

“We have to watch ourselves become ourselves in order to be ourselves, over and over again.” 
— Sara Cwynar, from Glass Life (2021)

A rose gold iPhone, photos of Pamela Anderson, dentures, melamine dishware—what do we value and desire? Created from her extensive personal archive of photographs, found objects, and computer-generated materials, Sara Cwynar’s image-saturated works evoke the flood of images each of us navigates in today’s digital era. In this conversation, moderated by Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois, Cwynar will discuss her new project examining understanding oneself in a culture of images, advertisements, and algorithms. 

Make the most of your ICA visit! Explore the galleries and visit the featured exhibition, Sara Cwynar: Alphabet. Relax and refresh with a drink and light bite in our waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar, featuring sommelier-selected natural wines and more. 

The Artist’s Voice: Sara Cwynar is made possible, in part, by The Ronni Casty Lecture Fund.

Sara Cwynar: Alphabet and Sara Cwynar is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

Support for these exhibitions is provided by The Kristen and Kent Lucken Fund for Photography.  

Join Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois for a deep dive into Tau Lewis: Spirit Level. In this conversation, get a closer look at the found and upcycled materials Lewis transformed into a new body of work for the ICA. Learn about the five monumental figures that preside over the gallery and the past lives of the materials of which they are made. 

About Jeffrey De Blois

Tau Lewis: Spirit Level is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

This exhibition is supported by The Coby Foundation, Ltd., Mathieu O. Gaulin, Girlfriend Fund, Robert Nagle and Katherine Hein, Kim Sinatra, the Jennifer Epstein Fund for Women Artists, an anonymous donor, and Miko McGinty.  

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Tickets will be available March 12 for ICA Members and March 19 for the general public. 

“I have to let the color take me wherever it takes me.” 

—Stanley Whitney 

Stanley Whitney’s captivating abstractions demonstrate his lifelong dedication to exploring the possibilities of color, structure, and form. Like improvisational jazz, Whitney’s signature freeform grids employ structure and rhythm, each hue part of a call-and-response.  

Narayan Khandekar brings a different perspective on painting, its surfaces, and the study of color pigments in his field as curator of the one-of-a-kind Forbes Pigment Collection at Harvard Art Museum, which includes more than 3,000 pigments from around the world, and director of the Strauss Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.  

In this conversation moderated by Ruth Erickson, the ICA’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, Whitney and Khandekar will come together to reflect on their lifetime work, including Whitney’s five decades of painting represented in his retrospective, Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon.

Make the most of your ICA visit! Explore the galleries and visit the ICA’s featured exhibition: Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Enjoy a drink and light bite in our waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar, featuring sommelier-selected natural wines and more. 

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The ICA/Boston’s presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Gagosian and the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

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Join Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois for a deep dive into MC⁹, a monumental multi-channel video installation featured in Charles Atlas: About Time. In this curator’s choice conversation, get a closer look into Atlas’s work at the intersections of moving image, dance, and performance. 

Bring your dancing shoes and join us for Let’s Dance: Through the Ages, in the theater following this program. Discover dance from 1970’s to today inspired by the exhibition, Charles Atlas: About Time. 

About Jeffrey De Blois

Charles Atlas: About Time is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant. 

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.

Additional thanks to Charles Atlas: About Time media sponsor, Orange Barrel Media. 

Join Curatorial Assistant Max Gruber for a deep dive into Personalities, a vibrant, monumental multi-channel video installation featured in Charles Atlas: About Time. In this curator’s choice conversation, get a closer look into Atlas’s work at the intersections of moving image, dance, and performance. 

About Max Gruber

Charles Atlas: About Time is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant. 

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.

Additional thanks to Charles Atlas: About Time media sponsor, Orange Barrel Media.