Welcome back!

This fall, we’re beginning a new artistic research program, Untimely Inheritances (2026–28). We’re thinking about what we inherit, what we owe, and how we make something of what comes before and after us.

We start again with Vitalisms II, the second chapter of our research into painting. This time, we’re asking: how does value come into being? We’ll be spending time with paintings—looking, talking, and thinking together in our Study Sessions and Artists Roundtable.

We’re also welcoming artist and researcher Yin Aiwen for the second Friends of ICA residency. Together with 夜校AfterSchool, they’ll transform our Reading Room into a space for Alchemy of Commons: Long Way to Belong—a place to read, talk, and re-make community.

Please join us!