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// MAY AT ICA

PERFORMANCE:
FRANCES STARK IN PERSON

Saturday, May 4, 7pm

Get absorbed in the world of Frances Stark, an artist noted for her delicate works on paper, performances, videos, and insightful and funny essays. Stark presents a performative multimedia event at International House (3701 Chestnut St.) in conjunction with the exhibition White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart.

Sponsored by the Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Endowment Fund.

image: Put a Song in Your Thing, 2011, Performa 2011, New York City. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Paula Court.

OFFICE HOURS

Visit ICA every other Sunday this spring for FREE TOURS by trained Penn graduate students. Both MFA and PhD candidates—artists and scholars—bring their insights and perspectives to the work on view. No need to schedule, just stop by ICA between 2-5pm on:

Sunday, May 5: Iggy Cortez
Iggy Cortez is a PhD student in the Department of the History of Art, where he focuses on cinema, contemporary art, and psychoanalytic theory.

Sunday, May 19: Iggy Cortez and Marijana Rayl
Marijana Rayl is a PhD student specializing in contemporary film and photography. She received her MA in art history from the University of Arizona and her BA from Centre College. She previously worked in the department of education at the Center for Creative Photography and at the Art Institute of Chicago.

CONVERSATION:
RICHARD MEYER & JUDITH TANNENBAUM

Saturday, May 11, 2:30pm

Find inspiration in ICA's past as art historian Richard Meyer and former ICA curator and interim director Judith Tannenbaum discuss the work of artist Glenn Ligon, whose 1998 exhibition Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming was the starting point for the current exhibition, Each One As She May. The conversation will be moderated by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of American Art, University of Pennsylvania.

We are grateful to the Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Keith L. Sachs & Katherine Sachs Program in Contemporary Art for making this exhibition possible.

image: Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine #46, 2010, oil stick, coal dust, and gesso on paper,12 x 9 inches. Courtesy of the artist.

MIRANDA // THE ICA BLOG

Special guest post by student curator Alina Grabowski.

This week Miranda revisits ICA’s 1998 exhibition Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming with former interim director Judith Tannenbaum and Penn’s Spiegel Contemporary Art Freshman Seminar.

“To have Judith Tannenbaum sitting across a table from me, eating a sandwich, is a bit surreal…”

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To stay up to date with all of ICA’s conversations, email miranda@icaphila.org.

EXCURSUS IV: PRIMARY INFORMATION

Coffee & Conversation
Saturday, May 18, 2pm

Enjoy a cup of complimentary La Colombe coffee and join Penn History of Art PhD candidate Iggy Cortez for an intimate conversation about artist Karla Black's engagement with psychoanalyst Melanie Klein and the broader interdisciplinary developments within contemporary psychoanalysis. The discussion is prompted by the ICA exhibition Karla Black, currently on view.

David Senior
Sunday, May 19, 2pm

David Senior, Bibliographer at the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York, will discuss a history of artists' publications in the 20th century.

There will be a few different stories about how artists and designers have used their little publications as containers for new ideas, creating lively and weird spaces to communicate work and archive actions. Most examples will come from the collection of books that he works with at MoMA and several recent exhibitions he has organized of artists' books and ephemera.

image (top): Installation view. Photo: Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media.

LECTURE: HILTON ALS ON
"DIANE ARBUS IN MANHATTAN"

Wednesday, May 22, 6:30pm

Explore Diane Arbus's relationship to the city of her birth and death with writer and theater critic for The New Yorker, Hilton Als, whose work is featured in White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart.

image: Hilton Als. Photo: The Author.

LECTURE & MUSIC: JAMES GOGGIN & LATTIMORE / ZEIGLER DUO

Wednesday, May 29, 6:30-9:30pm

Ruminate on the nuances of color with designer James Goggin. Following the lecture, enjoy an improvisational performance by the harp and synthesizer duo Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler. ICA galleries will remain open until 9pm and refreshments will be served..

image: James Goggin, Color Ting, 2011, five color Risograph print, 11 × 17 in (279.4 × 431.8 mm), edition of 100 for Golden Age, Chicago.

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