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| | Institute of Contemporary Art, 955 Boylston St., Boston, MA, (617) 266-5152. Founded in 1936, the ICA is the oldest non-collecting contemporary-arts institution in the United States. Open Wed. and Fri. from noon to 5 p.m., Thurs. from noon to 8 p.m., and Sat. and Sun. from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $6, $4 for students and seniors, free for children under 12. Free for all on Thurs. from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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Through July 1, "Marlene Dumas: One Hundred Models and Endless Rejects," a room-size installation of 100 ink-wash drawings of larger-than-life-size faces, as well as drawings that have been discarded or excluded from the artist's finished portraits.
Through July 1, "Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits," photographic portraits of adolescents, teenagers, and young adults that "combine formal classicism with brooding psychological intensity."
Through July 1, "Laylah Ali: 2000 ICA Artist Prize," a series of small gouache paintings that feature cartoon-like, round-headed figures. These pastel-colored characters are depicted in ambiguous scenarios suggestive of "racial subjugation, oppression, and political abuse."
July 18 through Sept. 30, "The Social Scene," an exhibition of photographs from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection. The exhibition documents an era of great social change, from the 1930s to the 1980s, as filtered through the lenses of photographers such as Brassa•, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Danny Lyon, Roger Mertin, John Pfahl, and Garry Winogrand.
July 18 through Sept. 30, "Nikki S. Lee," a collection of 60 photographs taken from Lee's various projects over the last five years, in which the photographer makes subtle and not-so-subtle changes in her weight, skin color, wardrobe, and social skills to assume "new and surprising identities."
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