This Is Where You Should Be Tonight

Get your brain back in gear and head to the ICA tonight for the opening of their fall shows (6-8 pm, 36th and Sansom). Dance with Camera kicks off in the first floor galleries, presenting an array of dance and movement pieces that were designed with the camera-as-audience in mind. Curator Jenelle Porter has also organized a semester long series of screenings of some seminal dance films just down the street at International House.

Upstairs is the first major museum retrospective of Tim Rollins, which shows his work with the Kids of Survival or K.O.S.  Rollins teamed up with these kids from the South Bronx to create sweeping canvases and minimalist works inspired by the books they were reading in school through a process called "jammin'." Stop by and get some literary inspiration from the pages hidden throughout the works - it still counts as starting your reading, right?

The launch of ICA's new Video Art series begins tonight.  Structured in three phases, each centered around a different theme (documentary, animation, and comedy), the series will last a year, with a different video being shown each week. Today launches the documentary phase, "Asking Not Telling." And if you didn't know, ICA is always free - so no excuses! Head over every week to see the changing material.

Say you're going over to kick off Penn's "Art and the City Year," stay for the wine.