ICA LA’s exhibition, Scientia Sexualis, takes a unique approach to Getty PST’s sprawling theme “Art & Science Collide.” While the PST theme elicits a certain hopefulness within the intersection of art and science, Scientia Sexualis seems to take an opposing viewpoint: namely honing in on the ways that medicine and science have been historically harmful […]
A new exhibition at the ICA LA takes its starting point from a quote in Claudia Rankine’s 2014 Citizen, in which she quotes feminist theorist Judith Butler. When asked what makes language hurtful, Butler responds, “Our very being exposes us to the address of another … we suffer from the condition of being addressable.” The […]
Over the past month, artists have been enacting community-driven projects at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) as part of “Field Workshops.” The ICA LA writes that this initiative “responds to the latest cultural, civic, and social activities taking place in Los Angeles and the world at large.” As part of the […]
On view: September 29, 2019–January 26, 2020 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), one of LA’s newest contemporary art institutions in the downtown Arts District, features two exhibitions that play off of each other. Sadie Barnette’s The New Eagle Creek Saloon is a redux of the Eagle Creek Saloon, the first black-owned gay bar […]
