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...could have a hand in shaping. Plus, they say, there had been a generational shift in the people who run the art world. "People were coming into institutions," explains Diller, "who were rethinking the contemporary museum." One of the people she's talking about would have to be Jill Medvedow, the cheerful locomotive who has been director of the ICA since 1998. Back then, says Medvedow, the place was "striving to be marginal"--organizing thoughtful shows that not enough people saw. Soon after she arrived, she convinced the trustees that the only way to survive was to grow, abandon...
Since the ICA is one of the linchpins of the city's plan to redevelop the waterfront, it was important to Medvedow and her architects to make the building a place where people could gather even when they weren't there for the art. It sits on a gray wood esplanade that, if all goes as planned, will become part of 47 miles of new harborside walkways. Diller and Scofidio have used the same wood to create a wide outdoor staircase that doubles as a bleachers-style seating area. It's located just under the ICA's major exterior flourish...
Over 50 gathered in Emerson Hall last night to hear Lowry, joined by Director of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Jill Medvedow and Rosenblatt Professor of Modern Art Benjamin Buchloh, examine the direction of contemporary...
...Medvedow brought the discussion from the abstract to the concrete by speaking about how Boston’s new ICA is dealing with many of the current challenges caused by the current prevalence of artists and their work...
Under director Jill Medvedow, the ICA is involved in creating art as well as exhibiting it; among its many projects, the museum funds outdoor conceptual art installations across the city, like this year’s computer-animated illustrations of pedestrians by Julian Opie displayed on LED screens on Northern Avenue Bridge...