http://www.icaphila.org/events/ Calendar of events at ICA Philadelphia. en-US Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.zerodefectdesign.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification ICA will be closed for installation through September 3rd and will re-open September 4, 6-8pm for our fall opening reception! ]]> Please join us for the opening reception of four new exhibitions this fall. In conjunction with the opening we invite the community to celebrate our new FREE ADMISSION generously sponsored by the Glenn R. Fuhrman (W87/WG88) Fund. On view in the galleries: Douglas Blau-First Floor R. Crumb's Underground-Second Floor Kate Gilmore-Project Space Odili Donald Odita: Third Space-Ramp Project Members only walkthrough with the artists and curators begins at 5pm.]]> Patrick Rosenkranz, comix historian and the author of the comprehensive tome Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963–1975, talks about R. Crumb’s work and the trangressive movement that it helped define. FREE to members & Penn students, $5 general admission A Spiegel Fund event. ]]> The young video artist and sculptor, recently returned from the American Academy in Rome, will discuss her ICA installation, built of locally available materials, as well as her earlier work, which pushes the boundaries of both canonical and recent feminist art and performance. ]]> Ruth Erickson examines Douglas Blau’s brilliant, relentless distillation of picture-making over the centuries. ]]> Guaranteed, this year’s installment of ICA’s annual lecture won’t answer the big question! Instead, senior curator Ingrid Schaffner will show the wide variety of ways in which artists today are asking us to think about what is contemporary. Get insights into ICA’s upcoming exhibitions by getting a sense of the issues and images that inform the larger context. ]]> Associate Curator Jenelle Porter sorts through the themes and ideologies critical to Crumb’s work—social satire, sex, blues and jazz, mind-altering substances, autobiography—and traces the development of his ultimate achievement and most important legacy: a wide-ranging, if critically suspicious, humanity.]]> Terry Zwigoff’s acclaimed 1995 biography documenting the life and times of the comix pioneer R. Crumb, featuring interviews with his family and ex-girlfriends, provides an insightful peek into the psychological sources of the legendary cartoonist’s paranoid, cynical, and subversive graphic art. International House, 3701 Chestnut Street ]]> Charles Burns, the award-winning Philadelphia-based cartoonist and illustrator well known for his fluid, graphic drawing style and deliciously dark themes (Big Baby, Skin Deep, Black Hole), discusses his own work and that of R. Crumb. Burns was an early and regular contributor to RAW, Art Spiegelman’s legendary magazine, and remains a leading figure of the comix movement. Meyerson Hall B1, 201 South 34th Street A Spiegel Fund event ]]> The eminent historian, critic, and curator Roald Nasgaard, who specializes in twentieth-century abstraction and its regional variations, talks with ICA Ramp Project artist Odili Donald Odita about nonrepresentational art and its manifestation as a form within a global context in the twenty-first century.]]> Yael Rice analyzes the warped, genius vision of comix legend R. Crumb.]]> Many comic artists get their start in the do-it-yourself world of minicomics, small, limited-edition artist books—collectable gems—that run the gamut from photocopied gag strips to multicolored silkscreen masterworks. For this event, Philadelphia artist Paul Swenbeck has gathered some of the brightest stars in underground comics to debut new minicomics—and to perform music, which comic artists have traditionally done on the side since the early days, with R. Crumb and his Cheap Suit Serenaders. FREE to members & Penn Students, $5 general admission]]> Douglas Blau’s work can be described as a form of prose, various imagery of individual moments that collectively form a greater story, left to the viewer to interpret. Come listen to stories that Douglas Blau’s pictures can tell when members of the Penn community narrate works in the current exhibition from the vantages of a diversity of disciplines. FREE to members, $5 general admission ]]> Renowned New York artist, critic, and curator Douglas Blau will discuss his sprawling new picture epic on view at ICA, as well as his landmark installations, writings, and exhibitions from the past three decades. ]]> Ruth Erickson looks into Kate Gilmore’s protagonists’ all-too-physical struggle for acceptance. Last day to see the shows! ]]>