MEMBERS WALKTHROUGH + PUBLIC OPENING RECEPTION

Whenever Wednesday
September 7, 6-8pm

Join us for our fall opening reception from 6-8pm. Exhibition Walkthrough (ICA Members Only) at 5pm: With artists and curators from the three new exhibitions on view: Charline von Heyl, Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters, and Bill Walton's Studio.

CONVERSATION WITH CURATORS IN NYC

Thursday, September 8 @ 6:30pm

On the occasion of the exhibition Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters Artis presents a talk with curator Doron Rabina followed by a conversation with ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner. Seating is limited. Please rsvp to persis@artiscontemporary.org
Location: Crosby Street Hotel, 79 Crosby St., New York City.
This exhibition has been supported in part by Artis – Contemporary Israeli Art Fund.

OPENING EVENT
EXCURSUS I: REFERENCE LIBRARY
UP ON MY BACK, AND I WILL TAKE YOU THITHER

Whenever Wednesday, September 14 @ 6:30pm

Join us for the launch of Excursus, a new series that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse ICA's archival material in the context of the present. Designer Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up on My Back, and I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia's own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.

Celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn's Rare Book and Manuscript Library.  To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace.

Stay tuned for the Excursus website and calendar of events! 

PENNDESIGN FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES @ ICA
WITH LESLIE HEWITT
Hear artists speak about their work as part of this co-sponsored event with PennDesign Fine Arts

Thursday, September 15 @ 6:30pm
FREE

Leslie Hewitt is inspired by "the everyday and the transformative power of circumstance or situation," as she notes in Modern Painters, taking on the forsaken documents of our past—brittle pictures, forgotten books, repressed films, and ephemera—to repurpose them in the present. Her photosculptural works not only retrieve memory but question the very basis of our access to it: how it is mediated, reframed, and changed through the contingencies of space and the exigencies of time. For more information call 215.898.5711

FREE FOR ALL
AN EXPANSIVE EVENING OF ART AND MUSIC

Whenever Wednesday
September 21 @ 6:30pm
FREE

Get a snapshot view of art today from ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner's annual lecture "What Is Contemporary?" Stay for a screen printing workshop with PennDesign MFA students and customize a free ICA tote. Music by Purling Hiss and savory snacks! For more information call 215.898.5711

MIRANDA //
THE ICA BLOG

Paintbrushes, old coins, talking clocks, funny hats: Get ready for ICA's fall opening by reading Miranda's behind-the-scenes accounts of two of the new shows:

// Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters
// Bill Walton's Studio

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