This event is free with museum admission.
Learn about ICP's new exhibitions in this curators tour with Helen Molesworth, curator of Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie and Sara Ickow, curator of Between Friends: From the ICP Collection.
Program Format/Accessibility Information
This is a walking tour of the gallery; no seating is provided. For accessibility questions or requests, please email [email protected].
Helen Molesworth is a writer and a curator based in Los Angeles. Her new podcast “Death of an Artist: The Story of Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre” has just been released by Pushkin and Sony Entertainment. She also recently hosted a podcast series called “Recording Artists” with The Getty, and is the host of Program, streamed interviews with artists and writers hosted by the David Zwirner gallery. Her major museum exhibitions include: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art; Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957; Dance/Draw; This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s; Part Object Part Sculpture, and Work Ethic. She has organized monographic exhibitions of Ruth Asawa, Moyra Davey, Noah Davis, Louise Lawler, Steve Locke, Anna Maria Maiolino, Josiah McElheny, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Amy Sillman, and Luc Tuymans. She is the author of numerous catalogue essays, and her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, and October. The recipient of the 2011 Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Award for Curatorial Excellence, in 2021 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 2022 she was awarded The Clark Art Writing Prize.
Sara Ickow is the Senior Manager of Exhibitions and Collections at the International Center of Photography and manages exhibitions and special projects for Women Photograph. She co-curated the book, Women Photograph: What We See to be released March 2023. Previously, she worked as a curatorial assistant and collections manager with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. She holds an MA in art history from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.