Advance tickets are recommended and are available for visits through July.
Aliza Nisenbaum, La Talaverita, Sunday Morning NY Times, 2016. Oil on linen, 68 x 88 inches (172.7 x 223.5 cm). Courtesy the artist; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; and Mary Mary, Glasgow. © Aliza Nisenbaum.
Discover our feature exhibition, When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, in this interactive tour led by one of the ICA’s expert guides.
Meet your guide in the 4th floor lobby.
Installation view, When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Mel Taing © Do Ho Suh
Discover our feature exhibition, When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, in this interactive tour led by one of the ICA’s expert guides.
Meet your Guide in the 4th floor lobby.
Installation view, Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art after Kusama, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Meg Elkinton.
Explore highlights from current exhibitions and some of the unique features of the ICA’s one-of-a-kind architecture.
Meet your Tour Guide in the 1st floor lobby.
Your support helps keeps programs like this free and accessible. If you’ve enjoyed our free Thursday Nights, Holiday Mondays, talks, tours, film screenings, and family programs – or would like to see more of them! – please consider a small donation of $5 or more today.
Installation view, Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art after Kusama, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Meg Elkinton. © Nick Cave
Explore highlights from current exhibitions and some of the unique features of the ICA’s one-of-a-kind architecture.
Meet your Tour Guide in the 1st floor lobby.
Installation view, ICA Collection: Entangled in the Everyday, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2019. Photo by Emily Tebbetts.
Explore highlights from current exhibitions and some of the unique features of the ICA’s one-of-a-kind architecture.
Meet your Tour Guide in the 4th floor lobby.
Your support helps keeps programs like this free and accessible. If you’ve enjoyed our free Thursday Nights, Holiday Mondays, talks, tours, film screenings, and family programs – or would like to see more of them! – please consider a small donation of $5 or more today.
Photo by Cassandra Rodriguez
Explore highlights from current exhibitions and some of the unique features of the ICA’s one-of-a-kind architecture.
Meet your Tour Guide in the 4th floor lobby.
John Akomfrah, Purple, 2017. Six-channel HD color video installation with 15.1 surround sound; 62 minutes. Installation view, John Akomfrah: Purple, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 2018. Courtesy Lisson Gallery and Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. © Smoking Dogs Films
Acompañe a un educador bilingüe del ICA el segundo y cuarto sábado de cada mes para realizar una visita guiada gratuita en español en el Watershed del ICA. Estas visitas guiadas dialogadas incluirán una introducción a la historia del Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina y John Akomfrah: Purple.
Free admission to the ICA Watershed is made possible by the generosity of Alan and Vivien Hassenfeld and the Hassenfeld Family Foundation.
The Boston Foundation welcomes you to the ICA Watershed.
The ICA Watershed is supported by Fund for the Arts, a public art program of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
John Akomfrah, Preliminal Rites 8, 2017. Three C-type prints, mounted, 60 x 80 inches (each). Installation view, John Akomfrah: Purple, ICA Watershed, 2019. Courtesy Lisson Gallery. Photo by Meg Elkinton © Smoking Dogs Films
Learn more about the ICA Watershed and John Akomfrah: Purple during free conversational tours led by volunteer tour guides at the ICA.
Free admission to the ICA Watershed is made possible by the generosity of Alan and Vivien Hassenfeld and the Hassenfeld Family Foundation.
The Boston Foundation welcomes you to the ICA Watershed.
The ICA Watershed is supported by Fund for the Arts, a public art program of the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Installation view, Jeffrey Gibson: DON’T MAKE ME OVER, Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2018. © Jeffrey Gibson
Join Jami Powell, Associate Curator of Native American Art at the Hood Museum of Art, for an in-depth look into Jeffrey Gibson’s new work DON’T MAKE ME OVER, included in Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design. Powell, a citizen of the Osage Nation, will discuss the various materials and handicraft techniques Gibson employs to merge indigenous artistic legacies with his personal stories.
Support for Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design is generously provided by Kate and Charles Brizius, Karen and Brian Conway, Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté, Alan and Vivien Hassenfeld, Jodi and Hal Hess, Tristin and Martin Mannion, and Cynthia and John Reed.
Vivian Suter, Installation view, Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2019. Image courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels. Photo: David Regen. © Vivian Suter
Delve into Vivian Suter’s vivid canvases with Mannion Family Curator Ruth Erickson to learn more about the artist’s creative method. Based in Guatemala, Suter engages in intense dialogue with the natural environment surrounding her home and studio.
