Dear ICA LA Community,  

Welcome to the revamped version of ICA LA’s newsletter! This edition marks the first in a new series of weekly e-mails that are richer in content, targeted to our exhibitions and public programs, while also highlighting events and community engagement opportunities in the city we call home, Los Angeles, with a special focus on DTLA.  

Every month will kick off with an OVERVIEW newsletter offering a robust preview of what’s ahead for that month. Subsequent newsletters will provide tailored content, each organized according to a different theme: FOCUS will feature stories and behind the scenes insights into an artist’s practice or specific artwork on view; PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS will spotlight our diverse lineup of engaging public programs and network of collaborators; and ICA in LA will concentrate on community-focused news and cultural happenings in our neighborhood of the Arts District and across LA.  

We’re excited to bring you the first newsletter using this new format as we open our fall exhibitions Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 and My Barbarian, exhibitions that celebrate the singular contributions of important Los Angeles artists and underscore ICA LA’s commitment to community, critical engagement, and showcasing diverse practices. 

We hope you enjoy the new newsletter and consider these weekly communications as a resource and guide for all things ICA LA.  

See you on Saturday,  

Team ICA LA 

Art Talk: Rebecca Morris and Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Saturday, October 1, 3pm PT, In-person   |  RSVP  |

On the occasion of the opening of the survey exhibition Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022, we invite you to join us for a conversation between the artist and curator Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which that will examine over 20 years of Morris’s abstract painting practice. This conversation will be in-person and livestreamed on our YouTube page. 

Hey Baby: Exhibition Walkthrough with Hey Baby Feminist Parenting Group

Thursday, October 20, 11am-1pm PT, In-person   |  RSVP  |

Parents/Guardians and children can enjoy two exhibitions on view: Rebecca Morris: 2001-2022 and My Barbarian with the Hey Baby Feminist Parenting Group and the museum's Learning & Engagement team. There will be a welcome area for parents and their children followed by a walkthrough of the exhibitions. 

Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater

Saturday, October 29, 5-9pm PT, In-person
Co-produced by ICA LA, My Barbarian, and The Industry

My Barbarian’s Broke People’s Broke Peoples’ Theater evokes an excess of theatrical styles, from Baroque spectacle to camp drag, to present the absurdities of the American financial crisis as performance of wastefulness, trashiness, and class warfare. It is the latest in a series of collective alter egos My Barbarian has assumed over the past decade which confront their internal conflicts over patronage, money, artistic quality, and other mythologies.

Structured as a play within a game within a play, the performance is an amalgamated decoupage of detoured theater texts, ornate musical numbers, and masked interactions. A recital of the grandeur of excess executive through impoverished means, Broke People’s Broke Peoples’ Theater depicts an encounter between an imagined theater company and an audience.

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