Institute of Contemporary Art

The artist and poet invites us into her world of rage, vulnerability and humour at ICA, London

As several galleries celebrate birthdays, Hettie Judah speaks to Barbican Stories and directors of BALTIC, ICA, Midlands Art Centre and Yorkshire Sculpture Park about founding principles and future plans

From a groundbreaking group exhibition of Black ceramicists to Rachel Jones’s suite of colourful, new paintings

As ‘Decriminalised Futures’ opens at London’s ICA, members of Babeworld draw on their own experiences to examine the parallels and ethics of organisations working with artist/sex workers

What role did the institution play in photography’s ascent?

With the industry having been continuously overlooked by the UK government’s COVID-19 response, frieze charts a disastrous year for nightlife

Derica Shields on how the 1661 Barbados Slave act shaped policing in contemporary Britain

Next year will be crushingly difficult for all aspects of cinema. Some theatres have a plan

‘Out of Body’ – Self’s new solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston – rumbles with piqued, defiant portent

In the artist’s solo show at ICA Philadelphia, industrial materials convey a sense of quiet discontent

In the run-up to the Kathy Acker exhibition at ICA, London, a look back at a significant recent show and symposium examining her relationship to the visual arts

‘You invite us to forge a ‘we’ with you and your images, to empathize, nodding snorts of identification brimming with tears’

‘The biggest hurdle we had to overcome was psychological: the belief that there never had been, and never could be, great women artists’

From a drone strike in Pakistan to reconstructing Syrian torture cells, a survey of the Eyal Weizman-led 'counter-forensics' agency at London's ICA

Colonialism and contemporary Australia in the paintings of Helen Johnson

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

‘The photographer was born in Jamaica in 1960 and grew up in Dalston, east London; he was given a Leica camera and taught darkroom techniques by a patron of his local church’

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA