Fundraising gets creative...
Fancy having lunch with YBA headline-grabber Tracey Emin and media 'personality' Christopher Biggins? At the same time? Nope us neither to be honest. But then it is to raise money for the good old ICA, so at least it's for a worthy cause, in our opinion at least.
The lunch is part of a day-long fundraising event called Intercourse, that's taking place this Saturday throughout the ICA's premises on The Mall. Other unusual activities include Breakfast with Tiffany (that's Tiffany Zabludowicz – daughter of art collector Anita, and Poju, whose dad founded Soltam, an Israeli, ahem, 'defence contractor'). But you also get to hang out with artist Anj Smith and hot young designer Mary Katrantzou, which sounds like much more fun.
There's also a host of live art events, with the likes of Donald Urquhart, Mustafa Hulusi, Daniel Silver and Yinka Shonibare, as well as a Q&A with Sir Peter Blake, horse racing with Mark Wallinger, lots of film screenings, and a bizarre-sounding re-enactment of a scene from Battleship Potemkin.
The whole day constitutes an innovative approach to fundraising, and bears the hallmark of Gregor Muir, appointed ICA Executive Director back in January of this year in order to save the institution from its previous, rather public, travails under Ekow Eshun and Alan Yentob. After the Arts Council hit the ICA with a 42% funding cut in March, the money-men have had to get imaginative – hence events like Intercourse. (Incidentally, Eshun was on the Arts Council's board of judges that made the decision – although of course he left the room at the time the ICA was discussed...) Since then, however, things seem to have been on the up, with the Pablo Bronstein exhibition hailed as the start of a new era. Let's hope so anyway – we've always had rather a soft spot for the ICA.
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Image credit: Piers Allardyce.
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