Celebrating a history of ICA firsts!

We are thankful for our community of supporters and all that you've made possible since 1936:

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Since 1938, the ICA has been a leader in presenting visual and performance art—from the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo to Merce Cunningham's Changeling.

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The ICA is committed to arts education. In 2012, First Lady Michelle Obama presented the ICA with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the highest honor awarded to youth programs in the U.S.

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In 2011, the ICA welcomed its 1 millionth visitor to the waterfront. This past spring the ICA celebrated a new record for attendance with visitors swinging through the galleries for William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects (2018).

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The ICA has always championed women artists, from the exhibitions on view to artworks in the collection. We are honored to include Yayoi Kusama and LOVE IS CALLING—the only Infinity Mirror Room in a public collection in New England!

Mirrored room with multi-colored, polka-dotted, tentacle-like sculptures.

People dancing and celebrating in front of a large warehouse space.

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In the summer of 2018 the ICA Watershed opened to the public in East Boston as the first totally free museum space in our city and the first to make a cross-harbor connection!

The ICA is at the center of art and civic life.

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#ICAfirsts.

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Silas Reiner performs Merce Cunningham's Changeling at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Photo by Liza Voll.

2016 National Teen Convening. Photo by Kristyn Ulanday.

William Forsythe, The Fact of Matter, 2009. Installation view, William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2018. Photo by Natasha Moustache. © William Forsythe.

Yayoi Kusama with her work LOVE IS CALLING during her solo exhibition “I Who Have Arrived In Heaven” at David Zwirner in New York in 2013. ©YAYOI KUSAMA/COURTESY DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK; OTA FINE ARTS, TOKYO, SINGAPORE, AND SHANGHAI; AND VICTORIA MIRO, LONDON AND VENICE.

2019 Watershed Family Day. Photo by Mel Taing.