Institute of Contemporary Art

As Black lives continue to be monitored and corralled in the UK, Derica Shields looks at the state structures and insurrection plots inherited from England’s Carribean plantation colonies 

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