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...Northern European modernist painters, leaving the New York branch to deal primarily with the Paris school of modernists. For some years this was a most fruitful setup for the tiny Boston MOMA. Oskar Kokoschka, Edvard Munch, and Georges Rouault were virtually unknown in this country when the ICA first exhibited their work...
After that push the ICA became an innovator. It was one of the first institutions to show the works of Henry Moore, and in the late 60s, it was one of the first to begin community outreach art programs. But the leadership then took a turn for the worse. As Plaut admits, "Over the years the ICA has had waves of success and failure, good leadership and not so good." Some critics have maintained that during the late 60s and early 70s the ICA lost almost all of its reputation, run as it was by the girlfriends of trustees. "That...
...PERHAPS because of the ICA's somewhat mottled past, that the efforts of Ross this year to establish performance/installation art and video art displays have made such a splash in Boston art circles. Originally a video artist himself. Ross knows such well-known performance artists as Laurie Anderson. He has brought a totally different kind of background to his job at the ICA, and this first year has been one of new directions for the museum...
...David Ross is bringing more of the theatrical to the ICA, more performance art, the whole video situation. I expect the ICA will be at the forefront among purveyors of video art in this country. You'll be able to say you saw it at the ICA," says Peter Sellars '80, who along with graphic artist Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, and dancer Bonnie Zimmering '81, recently mounted the highly-acclaimed "Sudden Difficulties," a performance art installation at the ICA...
...dialectic progression in art. There is no single monolithic avant-garde. If there's a cutting edge in art, it's like a round razor--it cuts in all directions at once." Besides its spectacular "Art and Dance" performance series, and the popular series of video screenings, the ICA this year has offered several exhibitions of purely visual, stationary works of art as well, including an exhibition of pastels by Lucas Samaras, and the recent showing of Christopher Wilmarth's "Breath," a collection of blown glass, steel sculpture and works on paper, created in response to seven poems by Stephane...