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...Barbara Jordan, Maya Angelou, or Steive Wonder (if they were determined to have a musical figure), to visit Harvard. However, if the Harvard Foundation wishes to continue in their ineffectual pattern, why not bring Butterfly McQueen on campus? Her potential for aiding race relations appears commensurate to Diana Ross". More over, Daffy. Diane C. Gooding...
...person running it, and the level of taste and skill has varied quite a bit throughout the past years. These days, it's impossible to talk about the ICA without talking about its director of one year, a young and energetic man by the name of David Ross. "I'm here because I like what I do," says Ross, "and I'm committed to contemporary art. It's hard for some people to support contemporary art--it's an unknown, it takes a little courage; but I think it's so important. Looking at the art of our times helps...
Only 34 years old, Ross has an impressive background, having already served as Chief Curator of the University Art Museum at Berkeley. Deputy Director for the Long Beach Museum of Art, and Curator of Video Art at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. He's written and lectured extensively on contemporary art, and has taught at several universities including Harvard, where he now leads a Fine Arts tutorial entitled, "Form Follows Fiction...
...original director of the ICA, "but he's the right kind of experimenter. He approaches things with great enthusiasm, but also with thorough knowledge and great calm." Linda Stux, owner and director of the Stux Gallery on Newbury St., echoes those sentiments. "The ICA has changed tremendously," she says. "Ross is very accessible and open-minded, and he's using the ICA to focus on the good artists here in Boston. His energy level is so high, it's contagious. There's a real feeling that something is happening in Boston, the art scene is really coming together...
...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...