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Institute of Contemporary Art
118 S. 36th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Google Maps)

Phone: 215.898.7108
Fax: 215.898.5050
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Category: Museums
Neighborhood: West Philly/University City

Description: ICA has long been the no nonsense home of the avant garde in the city. Indeed, for decades it has introduced artists on the verge of breaking big and those who already have done so, both locally plus from around the country and the globe. Every exhibition gives you more than an eyeful; it stuffs your brain with all kinds of new ideas. This place is just plain lean, mean and oh so scalpel sharp.

Insider Tips: Free on Sundays from 11am - 1pm.

Hours of Operation:
Wed - Fri: 12pm - 8pm
Sat - Sun: 11am - 5pm
Closed Monday and Tuesday.

Events:

Odili Donald Odita: Third Space
Date: Sep 4, 2008 thru Mar 29, 2009
Time: Wed - Sun: Noon - 8pm; Sat - Sun: 11am - 5pm
Price: $2 - $3

Vast, animated expanses of fractured, rhythmic planes, equally informed by television test band patterns, African textiles, post-colonial discourse, sensory overload, and digital technology, speak to a contemporary experience of dislocation and decenteredness.

Kate Gilmore
Date: Sep 4, 2008 thru Dec 7, 2008
Time: Wed - Fri: Noon - 8pm; Sat - Sun: 11am - 5pm
Price: $2 - $3

For her performance-based video works, she sets up a difficult physical task—a precarious tower of strung-together furniture to climb, for instance—dons lipstick and a fancy dress, and documents herself making the attempt.

R. Crumb's Underground
Date: Sep 4, 2008 thru Dec 7, 2008
Time: Wed - Fri: Noon - 8pm; Sat - Sun: 11am - 5pm
Price: $2 - $3

This exhibit of over 100 works—including early comics, greeting cards, collaborations, and sketchbooks, as well as drawings and sculptures—is the most substantial portrait of Crumb, a Philadelphia native, to date in the United States.

Douglas Blau
Date: Sep 4, 2008 thru Dec 7, 2008
Time: Wed - Fri: Noon - 8pm; Sat - Sun: 11am - 5pm
Price: $2 - $3

Douglas Blau creates picture epics and episodes from uniformly framed collages of printed matter. Postcards, film stills, images of paintings and photographs, pictures of all kinds are cut and pasted into individual collage elements.

Cost:
$3 Adults, $2 for Artists and Seniors, Free for Members and Children under 12
Wheel Chair Access:
Yes