Word: ica
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ICHARD AVEDON, fashion photographer and portrait-maker, will be speaking tonight at the Fogg in conjunction with his latest project In the American West (co-sponsored by the ICA Harvard's Office for the Arts, and Harvard University Art Museum). Following are excerpts from a recent interview with Mr. Avedon...
Endgame, the new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), is an ironic tribute to modern art, and possibly its gravestone as well. Specifically, the ICA collection is a display of "reference and stimulation in recent painting and sculpture." The few artists represented in the panelled halls are working quite self-consciously, with pointed reference to works that have gone before...
...companion piece the ICA is showing Witness to War, Deborah Shaffer's 30-minute study of Dr. Charlie Clements, a former U.S. pilot in Vietnam who has had a conversion to Quakerism and now does medical relief work in the shell-stormed hills outside San Salvador. The quick-paced film captures the Sturm und Drang of life at the front lines, cutting throughout to interviews of Clements's friends, high school snapshots, and snippets of Clements raising funds and consciousness back home in America. In a brilliant device, Clements sits in his present-day living room and reads...
...ICA Cinema: 955 Boylston St., Boston, 266-5151. Living at Risk and Witness to War: 7 9; through Sunday...
...Baden took mundane television scenes (even a game show contestant) and collected them into groups of four. He has tried to unearth hidden suggestions contained in the pictures by putting them next to others. By no means is it Baden's photographic skill that is on display at the ICA: it is his artistic eye that hangs in the gallery. And it is the way he exhibits that talent, using the spacing of other people's images rather than his own photos, that makes him unique...