The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality
What is a gift? Who gives what, to whom, and why?
What is a gift? Who gives what, to whom, and why?
Never Spoken Again reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them and their contingent origin stories. Curated by Colombian curator David Ayala-Alfonso, an alumnus of ICIs Curatorial Intensive, the exhibition is part of ICIs new series of programs supporting emergent voices in the curatorial field.
Talking to Action investigates contemporary, community-based social art practices in the United States and throughout Latin America while attempting to build a direct dialogue with artists and researchers across the hemisphere to discuss shared concerns.
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is a traveling exhibition that explores the work of over fifty queer and Chicanx artists working in Los Angeles between the late 1960s and early 90s.
This unique solo exhibition presents a survey of rarely-seen experimental short films and installations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, alongside archival documents, photographs, drawings and sketches that explore threads of socio-political commentary in the artists practice from early in his career to the present.
Create is a group show that will bring well-deserved attention to the compelling work created over the past 20 years by artists with developmental disabilities.
Performance Now: The First Decade of the New Century shows how performance has come to be at the center of the discussion on the latest developments in 21st century art and culture.
State of Mind is a deep investigation of seminal conceptual and related avant-garde activities in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the critical interchange between artists living in California.
Intended as an evolving retrospective, this exhibition encourages collaboration between curator(s) at each presenting institution and the artist Martha Wilson to select works from overlapping stages of Wilsons career that suit the institution's local collections and audiences.
Over 40 years later, Documenta 5, the exhibition that was criticized in 1972 as being bizarre vulgar sadistic by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and monstrous overtly deranged by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history.
This exhibition explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide.
Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years, 197886 taps into the steady stream of this California artist's early graphic arts production, before he appeared on the contemporary art stage. This exhibition includes over 200 examples of Pettibon's powerful designs made between 1978 and 1986, when he was immersed in the Los Angeles punk rock scene, doing the graphic design for Black Flag and other punk bands.
Broadcast explores the ways in which artists since the late 1960s have engaged with, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio.
This innovative project proposes an alternative model to the standard contemporary art biennial, aiming to recognize the talent and unique expression that is present within many communities. At the same time, the openness of this model is intended to reflect upon the often exclusionary and insular nature of contemporary art.
The New Normal brings together thirteen recent artworks that use private information as raw material and subject matter.
Slightly Unbalanced features work that deals with a range of psychological tendencies, including anxiety, obsessive behavior, depression and narcissism. The artists question what constitutes normalcy, and what qualifies as neurosis, a slippery and suggestive endeavor.
Phantasmagoria includes works by contemporary artists who create ghostly images to reflect on notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial mediums such as shadows, fog, mist, and breath.
The theme of space explorationits infinite potential, as well as its historical successes and failuresis the focus of Space Is the Place.
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 is an exhibition that brings together approximately forty works by thirty-eight artists living and working in New York from 1967 to 1975.
This exhibition focuses on artists portrayals of members of their own families, presenting photography and video works made during the last ten years by artists active in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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