// OPENING CELEBRATION
KARLA BLACK AND EACH ONE AS SHE MAY

Wednesday, April 24

5-6pm Members Only Walkthrough: Get your first look at ICA's spring shows, with insights and illumination from the exhibition curators.
6-9pm Reception: Open to the public.
6:30pm Conversation: Hear Karla Black talk with Assistant Curator Kate Kraczon about her gallery-scale sculpture, Practically in Shadow, and past work.




White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart remains on view in ICA's First Floor Space through July 28.

images (clockwise): Karla Black, Installation view, Scotland + Venice 2011, curated by the Fruitmarket Gallery, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani (S. Marina). Photo: © Gautier Deblonde. Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain Cologne. Fase, a film by Thierry De Mey, Rosas © Herman Sorgeloos. Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, NonPlus, 2012, collage, drawing, mixed materials on pastel paper. Courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp.

// EXCURSUS IV: PRIMARY INFORMATION

Sunday, April 28 @ 2pm
The Chapbook

Join Matvei Yakelevich, author, editor, and co-founder of Ugly Duckling Press, for a reading and discussion about the production and distribution of chapbooks in the 21st century.

Follow the project at Excursus.

image: Installation view. Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.

// MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG

While we're extremely excited about the two new shows opening Wednesday, we also remind you that White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart is still open in our First Floor Space. Miranda takes you back to the opening of this provocative and probing exhibition:

Narcissism lurks at the core of this show—though, as its curator, Anthony Elms, consoles in his gallery notes: "Don't fret, per American writer Wayne Koestenbaum's pithy reminder: 'Narcissism isn't evil: it's ordinary.'..."

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To stay up to date with all ICA's ordinary narcissism, email miranda@icaphila.org