Sometimes even the writing on the wall needs some coaxing - the witty text-based practice of artist Kay Rosen draws attention to the relationship between #language and meaning through manipulation, scale and word play (pictured - ‘Various Strata’, 1996/1998-99, acrylic paint on wall). #KayRosen is one of our #5WomenArtists during @womeninthearts month this March selected by ICA LA Curator @jamillahjames. Her #painting will be on view in the museum’s upcoming exhibition ‘This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists’ centered around fabricator #NormLaich who has been the hand behind many iconic works by artists including Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and many others. ’This Brush for Hire’ opens @theicala June 3, 2018 | #comingsoon #icala

#aboutlastnight #museumsquad Alex Kalman of @mmuseumm, Chris E. Vargas of The Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art @m_o_t_h_a + Alica Konitz of Los Angeles Museum of Art (LAMOA) joined ICA LA Curator @jamillahjames for a discussion on the conventions of exhibition-making. Each one of the panelists have created their own museum, challenging the limits of institution - similar to the subject of our main gallery exhibition, the late curator #HaraldSzeemann who produced radical exhibitions and alternative methods of display throughout his career. Catch up with last night’s free #arttalk ‘Making Museums’ @theicala now on our Story Highlights👈👀💛 #museumlife #icala

ICA LA Curator @jamillahjames continues her #5WomenArtists for @WomenintheArts this month - Nina Chanel Abney will exhibit @theicala this fall with a joint exhibition @caam in #LosAngeles. Abney marries geometric #abstract shapes with digital elements of contemporary #culture, revitalizing narrative figurative #painting to address issues of politics, race, homophobia, celebrity and other incendiary topics (pictured - ‘Untitled (Yo 123)’, 2015). ‘Royal Flush’ by @ninachanel opens Sept 21, 2018 | #ninachanelabney #comingsoon #icala

In March 2017, ICA LA’s Board Member Miriam Rothbart launched the museum’s Curator’s Council to explore #art #culture and #food across #LosAngeles and beyond. To mark its first year, we talk to Miriam about the inspiration behind the Curator’s Council, the excursions to museums, #contemporaryart galleries, non-traditional art spaces and artist studios led by ICA LA Curator @jamillahjames both in #LA and from a recent trip to #MexicoCity (pictured - La Casa Azul at @museofridakahlo) + its support for @theicala’s Project Room and Courtyard exhibition programs. Read the full interview between #icalarep @magnus_elias_rosegarden and Miriam now on our Yellow Pages - link in bio 👈📒👀 | #curatorscouncil #museumlife #icala

This weekend our museum shop curated by @dosaflyingfish invite #DTLA neighbor @goodliverstore to select products from their general store that are inspired by our #HaraldSzeeman exhibition, ‘Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us’. Discover bath, beauty and other functional homewares, unified by enduring #design + quality from around the world. Shop in Shop opens this Saturday, March 24 - April 7th @theicala | #shopinshop #comingsoon #icala

#tbt to last weekend when artist #AndreaFraser read her latest essay to a full house @theicala - ‘Toward a Reflexive Resistance’ centered around the work of the late sociologist and philosopher #PierreBourdieu in reference to cultural capital versus critical reflexivity within the contemporary arts community. View more images from the lecture in conjunction with @xtraartjournal now on our Facebook page + highlights from our family workshop with @crayoncollection and artist Pearl C. Hsiung 👉 facebook.com/theicala | #museumlife #icala

‘Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us’ represents more than #HaraldSzeeman’s fascination with his grandfather - it’s an example of his visionary outlook about the role of a curator: curation beyond the institutional space to the domestic; an exhibition of accumulation versus art forms. It’s an insight into the mind of Szeemann. This week we look at the revolutionary curator with 2 #free talks: personal accounts and anecdotes about Szeemann by The Good Works Executive Director Elsa Longhauser and curator Philipp Kaiser will be discussed tonight, 7:30pm in ‘Harald and Elsa: The Kingdom of Referentials’ + @pictorialreference, Sue Spaid and Patricia A. Morton will pose the question, ‘are curators artists, too?’ in Boxing Philosophical this Friday, March 16 at 7:30pm. For more info visit our Event page 👉 theicala.org | #icala