Word: ica
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...Institute of Contemporary Art’s (ICA) latest exhibition, “The World as a Stage,” opens with a most fitting visual prologue. Towering over viewers upon their entrance, Rita McBride’s “Arena” transforms the gallery into a theater for the modern art below. Inside the curve of the delicately skeletal set of amphitheater seating, museum patrons interacting with art displace ordinary theater performance on the imagined stage. Taken at face value, “Arena” is a piece of art that makes the life around...
...point during my preparations for a commissioned project with the ICA [Institute of Contemporary Art] Boston, I was at a loss regarding the specific attributes of a certain type of glass I wanted to use,” she recalled. “Over lunch, I discussed this with my fellow Radcliffe fellows, and was pointed, via the fields of chemistry and physics, in the right direction...
...than 30 shelters, many residents have chosen to remain near their homes or move into tents set up in parks and city squares. Blue-plastic tents dot the landscape from the beach town of Cerro Azul, made famous in the Beach Boys song "Surfin' Safari," to the city of Ica, 160 miles south of Lima, the capital. Major landmarks that identify this part of Peru have been lost. Centuries old churches collapsed, museums in Pisco and Ica are now little more than debris. Even natural rock formations, including one known as the Cathedral popular among tourists, are gone, plunging into...
...actually slowing down the process, with underlings afraid to make decisions that might contradict the president's plans for a shipment of aid. "The government is doing very much, which is important, but I think we need to leave the work at this point to the experts," says Ica Bishop Guido Brena. "There could be a moment when people think that this is being used for political benefit because of the President's close involvement. That would be unfortunate...
Besides helping with the relief efforts, the Interior Ministry dispatched police officers to Ica to stop thieves from looting damaged homes and stores. Some 600 inmates at the Tambo de Mora prison in Ica's Chincha province escaped when the earthquake tumbled the penitentiary walls. The National Police announced that officers had only arrested 29 of the escaped convicts by mid-day Thursday. A second prison in Ica was also seriously compromised by the earthquake, but none of the prisoners managed to escape...