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Visual Arts Review: Helina Metaferia’s “Generations” — A Story of Heritage and a Call for Change

The social message of Generations is powerful and clear: it is time to be AWAKE + OUTRAGED.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Chloe Pingeon, Helina Metaferia, Helina Metaferia: Generation, ICA

Visual Arts Review: The Photographs of Deana Lawson — Portals to Possibilities

Viewers are invited to make what they will of the show’s images — to let their imaginations come up with their own expansive and beautiful stories.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Chloe Pingeon, Deana Lawson, ICA

Visual Arts Review: Virgil Abloh Is Bringing in the Outside at the ICA

“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.

By: Chloe Pingeon Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Chloe Pingeon, Figures of Speech, ICA, Virgil Abloh

Dance Review: Smile and Sneer — Mark Morris at the ICA

Now 58, the noted choreographer’s succinct gestural language, coincident use of music and musical ideas, and spatial elasticity is now completely second nature.

By: By Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: ICA, Mark Morris Dance Group, Mark-Morris

Fuse Dance Review: PERFORMANCE — A Parade of Passersby

No amount of postmodern theory can paper over the fact that a half-baked cake, even one made with tasty ingredients, fails to satisfy.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Ali Naschke-Messing, ICA, PERFORMANCE, Rashaun Mitchell, Stephin Merrit, Summer Stages Dance

Film Review: The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival — A Very Good Year

An annual gathering of superb new animation from around the world. This year’s standouts include “Oh Willy…” from Belgium and “Virtuoso Virtual” from Germany.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: animation, ICA, The Best of the Ottawa International Animation Festival

Film Interview: Director Jane Gillooly on Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories and experiences.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: documentary, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jane Gillooly, Suitcase of Love and Shame

Dance Review: Putting the Id in Kid: Faye Driscoll at the ICA

Over the next 90 minutes, Faye Driscoll and Aaron Mattocks stepped, bounced, shrieked and scrabbled through a series of 20 to 30-count episodes, much of it having to do with orality.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured Tagged: Aaron Mattocks, Faye Driscoll, ICA, You're Me

Music Review / Commentary: Surprise Packages — Marc Ribot, solo guitar / Mostly Other People Do the Killing

Honesty is Best Policy Disclosure: I was in the hall to hear Mostly Other People Do the Killing. I’d heard the band on CD, and I knew that the only way I could appreciate them fully was to attend a performance.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: ICA, Marc Ribot, Mostly Other People Do the Killing

Coming Attractions in Film: September 2012

A list of unusual and compelling films coming up in September that you may not have a second chance to experience if you don’t plan your evening ahead!

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: 1871, Crazy Horse, Dark Horse, Frederick Wiseman, Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film, ICA, James Murphy, La Commune: Paris, Manhattan Short Film Festival, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present, Maska, MFA, New Babylon, Shut Up and Play the Hits, The Quay Brothers, Through the Weeping Glass, Todd Solondz, What Time is Left

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