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The Globe supplemented today's print edition with a 16 page supplement on the ICA (including the ads). The ICA has been the topic of the local arts blogs and print media arts press for the last few months, a fury of activity has picked up over the past few weeks. The Institute for Contemporary Arts location in the Back Bay closed earlier this year with the promise of a new location on the Boston Waterfront...

The new Institute of Contemporary Arts building at 100 Northern Avenue on Boston's Waterfront is open still not open. They've delayed the opening date indefinitely, but hope to open the new museum later this fall. Originally, when they closed the Back Bay ICA location they'd hoped to be fully operational in the newly constructed building for a grand opening on September 17, 2006. If you've got a calendar handy you might notice that today is three days after that. Still no new ICA. The Hynes stop on the Green Line still bares the ICA name.

In just over a week, on May 7, the ICA will close its doors at the Boylston St. location in Back Bay and move into the New ICA building on the waterfront. (Hynes will be left by it's lonesome when both Virgin and ICA leave the nearby stop.) The New ICA will open on September 17, 2006 on the waterfront and at some point it will lose the “New” part of the name and become just plain Institute for Contemporary Arts. Eh, who are we kidding? It’ll be the ICA. This weekend, thousands of museum curators, administrators, students, and interested members of the public willing to shell out $250 per day will attend the American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, marking the 100th anniversary of the organization. Participants will surely be aware of the museum construction in Boston. The MFA’s director, Malcolm Rogers, will chair the meeting – and no doubt make mention of the MFA’s fundraising effort. The Children’s Museum, also undergoing an expansion, will host a party during the AAM’s meeting in Boston. Harvard’s Fogg is ramping up for a temporary stint in Allston as their current location undergoes serious renovation – plans which may change after Summers's imminent departure this summer.