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Across a nearly frozen tundra of Southie parking lots lies a new museum

We checked out the freshly-opened ICA museum the other night. The building is gorgeous, the views of the waterfront from inside are really something, and the Wolfgang Puck-branded café served up extremely tasty (if a bit pricey) sandwiches. But yes, we did go for the art.

I enjoyed the Super Vision exhibit. Pieces that stood out on a first walk through:

• The famous Harold Edgerton photograph of the bullet shooting through the apple, clearly a “hey, that’s famous” effect
• The stainless-steel-yet-looks-inflated Rabbit by (of course) Jeff Koons was amusing mostly because I remember having the plastic version, complete with razor-sharp edges, around as a toy when I was a kid
• Anish Kapoor’s Turning the World Inside Out (think smaller version of “the bean” in Chicago, with the addition of a fascinatingly eerie navel)
• Jeff Wall’s giant photograph taken in a Vancouver park seems like a normal image, yet it isn’t because it is illuminated and outsized
• James Turrell’s odd and absorbing trick of light installation

The four finalists for the Foster prize were also worth seeing. I liked the two smoke and soot paintings by Sheila Gallagher and the polar backdrops of Jane Marsching’s photo collages best.

I intend to go back (often) as we decided to become members. Too bad the Silver Lie doesn’t directly connected with the Blue line, that would make it even more convenient.

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