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April 2024

  • Darren Edwards, pictured during an expedition across Iceland’s Vatnajokull Glacier in April 2023

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I was paralysed on a climb. Then I made the 100-mile journey back to myself

    Seven years after a terrible fall, I teamed up with two other disabled sportsmen to scale Iceland’s highest peak. With each drive of my poles into the snow, I came closer to the man I’d once been

January 2024

  • John Ashford at the Summer ReCollection festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2021.

    Other lives
    John Ashford obituary

    Other lives: Director of the Place theatre and founder-director of the Aerowaves dance network

August 2023

  • Film-maker and choreographer Yvonne Rainer

    ‘I was never interested in being famous’: dance legend Yvonne Rainer on her gloriously weird film career

    As a retrospective of her work opens in London, Rainer looks back at her journey from experimental choreographer to anarchic film-maker and back again

October 2022

  • Wolfgang Tillmans

    Wolfgang Tillmans on making the ICA rave: ‘It is underground, progressive and has a really late licence’

    London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts has a new director tasked with making the place party until 6am, and an art auction to raise funds organised by Tillmans, the venue’s chair

June 2022

  • ‘I felt that I wasn’t posh enough to be a part of the art world’ … Goring at her home/studio in London.

    Artist Penny Goring: ‘David Bowie showed me that there was another world’

    Brought up in a rough area, Goring drank heavily and never thought that she would make it as an artist. Finally, after a detour into ‘weird Facebook’, her freaky explorations of womanhood are getting their due

July 2021

  • Strophe / Antistrophe (Synergy of Two Paintings), 1961 by Jeffrey Steele.

    Jeffrey Steele obituary

    Op art pioneer of the 1960s who maintained a sense of order and rationalism in his subsequent work

June 2021

  • ICA - Tottenham Rights. Broadwater Farm

    Black experience of Britain since 1940s charted in ICA exhibition

    War Inna Babylon will explore resistance to institutional and police racism since the docking of the Windrush

January 2021

  • TONY LEUNG (Chow Mo Wan) und ZHANG ZIYI (Bai Ling) in 2046

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: our guide to the world of Wong Kar-Wai

    An intoxicating feast awaits as the ICA and BFI join forces in a retrospective of the Hong Kong auteur’s work, complete with seven new 4K restorations

March 2020

  • Les Miserables at Queen's Theatre, London

    Covid-19 prompts all major British theatres to close doors

    Fifty London theatres and 250 throughout UK to close, says industry body

July 2019

  • ‘I almost said no to this. There’s a huge risk of failure’ … Kate Valk at the ICA’s Kathy Acker exhibition.

    'Kathy Acker was incredibly warm – but her writing was so aggressive'

    As she prepares to direct an unstaged script by the late pirate queen of counterculture, theatre-maker Kate Valk recalls how they met – and how she dealt with Acker’s challenging attitude to sex

June 2019

  • Wild Daughter at their rehearsal studios in London.

    Armed with a giant phallus, Wild Daughter are taking aim

    They’ve shaken the leather and chains in a gay sex club. Now the transgressive trio have their sights set on stirring up the rest of the world

October 2018

  • Chelsea Manning speaks to James Bridle

    Chelsea Manning says life in the US is like being in prison

    Whistleblower highlights surveillance and policing in her first UK public appearance

August 2018

  • Chelsea Manning

    Chelsea Manning to discuss Cambridge Analytica during London visit

    The whistleblower will speak in October at the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner

November 2017

  • ICA Rochelle Canteen, Margot Henderson, The Mall, St James's, London, OM, 08/11/2017 Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Rochelle Bar and Canteen, London: ‘This food feels right’ – restaurant review

  • We all now inhabit this future ... The church of Expanded Telepathy encouraged audiences to ‘explore sexuality, space-time and inhuman intentionality’.

    Ungender, deprogram, urinate: improve your life with post-cyber international feminism!

October 2017

  • questionsfacingartiststoday

    What's the biggest question facing artists today?

    Commercialisation, climate change, studio space, censorship? As the art world flocks to Frieze, Nell Frizzell asks what’s on the mind of Marina Abramović, Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean, Stefan Kalmár and more

September 2017

  • Suzanne Moore

    Kathy Acker showed it takes blood, guts and smarts to be a female artist

    Suzanne Moore
    I always admired the US writer for her mythology as an outlaw and sexual adventurer. Chris Kraus’s biography reminds us how hard the avant garde has been for women

June 2017

  • Health Cuts can Kill

    Exhibition illustrates the deadly impact of NHS cuts

    Activist art that drew attention to hospital closures 40 years ago is still relevant today, as an exhibition of hard-hitting posters and campaign material at the ICA reveals

September 2016

  • A visitor to the Memorial To The Iraq War exhibition at the ICA, with “Triumph”, 2007 by Dutch artist Marc Bijl.

    Stefan Kalmár appointed as new director of the ICA

    Head of Artists Space in New York will succeed Gregor Muir in role as organisation celebrates its 70th anniversary

July 2016

  • Joan Jonas performing Reanimation in 2013

    All-nighter arts festival to transform London

    The ICA’s Art Night promises to perform magic on a number of famous and secret London sites that aren’t normally open to the public
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