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...ICA’s walls, Fairey used mixed media to preserve nuance as his art moved from street to gallery. Glimpses of newspaper and posters show through the paint, complicating the work’s more overt messages. Standing beneath his largest inside work to date, which the ICA commissioned for “Supply and Demand,” Fairey said, “It combines the scale and presence of street art with the depth of what I call fine art.” Countering questions with a humor that also contains a certain biting honesty, he says...
...prints intended for sale in galleries, are the result of a freedom from the time constraints of the street, where Fairey runs the risk of arrest if he dallies too long. The artist has been arrested 15 times, most recently right as he was about to enter the ICA last Friday on his way to DJ part of their Experiment series. The outstanding warrants for vandalism on which he was arrested and his constant drive to bomb cities he visits have helped to maintain his street credibility as some of his original fans feel more and more distanced from...
...never watch the video to “Goody Two Shoes” again for fear of that incessant “Pop Up Video” ping.I was afraid—viscerally afraid—that ReConstitution at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) was going to turn into Pop Up Debate and ruin the electoral process for me forever. The ICA billed the event as “a live remix of the first presidential debate, morphing words and images into a nonpartisan spectacle of light and sound,” which...
...debut documentary, Esther Robinson explores the involvement and the mysterious disappearance of her uncle, Danny Williams ’61. “A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory,” shown this past weekend at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) with commentary from Robinson, investigates the much-examined Warhol clique from a personal, fresh perspective, exploring the inner machinations of the Factory. Weaving intimate interviews of aging Factory members with excerpts from Williams’ striking films, Robinson tells the story of a creative young man denied the approval of his dominating...
...government approval was a 2029-page book.“It will be 45 minutes and we will show 81 slides,” Jeanne-Claude said, by way of prefacing a speech, at the beginning of an event held last Wednesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. The afternoon and evening were devoted to celebrating the artists and their work, and, more specifically, their skill in negotiating complex social and legal issues in order to pursue their enormous installation projects. Their talk lasted 45 minutes, and there were 81 slides.Christo and Jeanne-Claude were in town...