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Art for art's sake - and $1 billion
By adamg - 1/20/12 - 10:45 amBoston Daily totals up all the money spent on art-museum expansion in the Boston area over a decade, and comes up with a pretty large number.
MFA, I'ma let you finish, but the ICA has the best modern art of all time
By adamg - 11/20/11 - 6:57 pmPeople legally diving off a building into the harbor
By adamg - 8/20/11 - 8:41 pm
Jeff Tamagini took in the Red Bull cliff-diving tourney, in which participants jumped off a board extending out from the roof of the ICA down into Boston Harbor 85 feet below. Unlike other dives into the harbor, this had the blessings of city officials.
Copyright Jeff Tamagini. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.
ICA closed some galleries Thursday to repair nor'easter damage
By adamg - 3/27/10 - 9:54 amGreg Cook reports the waterfront museum had to fix roof damage caused by the recent aguageddon.
ICA wrests curator away from Harvard
By adamg - 1/13/10 - 11:59 amJoel Brown has the latest on the local contemporary-arts musical chairs.
ICA curator to leave
By adamg - 7/31/09 - 5:22 pmNicholas Baume, chief curator at the ICA since 2003, is leaving for a job in New York, Julia Rappaport at the Herald reports.
The night they brought old Shepard down ...
By adamg - 2/10/09 - 3:59 pmDave Combs says he was in the cab with Shepard Fairey when Fairey was arrested outside the ICA. And he says that but for a couple of wrong turns by their cab driver, Boston Police would have arrested Fairey right at the entrance to the ICA, instead of out in the parking lot, deliberately provoking a riot to embarrass Tom Menino over his wage-freeze proposal, like this:
... The unmarked SUV follows our cab and drives right up to the front entrance of the glass-facade ICA with 800 of Shepard's fans inside and outside hyped on adrenaline excitedly watching, waiting for him to arrive. The SUV swoops in and the undercover cops emerge to seize Shepard right in front of all those fans. Now, I was in that crowd later that night, and I can be sure that at least a handful of those guys I met inside wouldn't have just stood there without doing something. It might have been that they ran out and shouted obscenities at the cops who were arresting Shepard, or they might have simply lost their minds and just mobbed the cops depending on the number of people who ran out, all while the cameras were rolling. Either way, something ugly certainly would have jumped off, and whatever happened it would have played right into the hands of the Boston Police Department and helped them hand the Mayor his ass on a platter. Remember, Mayor Menino was photographed just two days earlier congratulating Shepard and welcoming him to Boston. ...
Hey, I don't write this stuff, I just link to it.
Shepard Fairey arrested; did a revolutionary woman in red bail him out?
By adamg - 2/7/09 - 10:02 amYou can't make this stuff up: The Globe reports that Shepard Fairey, whose iconic posters are plastered everywhere these days, was arrested while about to enter the ICA, which is hosting an exhibit of his work. Those pesky outstanding warrants reared their ugly heads, although police were unable/unwilling to tell the paper just what they were for.
Ginny Delany, 27, a graduate student from Cambridge, said, "It makes him even more of a hero to me."
Vanishing point
By adamg - 2/2/09 - 7:23 pm
Brian Robert Birke found a good place to watch people at the ICA.
Don't you just hate it when somebody breaks your expensive vase?
By adamg - 12/11/08 - 10:07 amGreg Cook reports an ICA tour guide bumped into the pedestal used to display Joe Zane's glass sculpture "Tulip Head," sending the $7,000 work crashing to the floor and shattering it into a zillion pieces. With photos of the original work and the replacement vase the artist was able to make.
