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GALLERY REVIEW: Steve McQueen: Ashes—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Written by CHRISTOPHER SNOW HOPKINS Posted October 28, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2002–15, istallation view, the 56th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, All the World's Futures, Venice, 2015, courtesy of the artist, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London, © 2016 Steve McQueen, photo by Francesca Buccaro

 

In 2002, Steve McQueen met a charismatic fisherman named Ashes in Grenada. When the British artist returned to the island eight years later, Ashes was dead, gunned down by a drug kingpin after the fisherman discovered a cache of narcotics on the beach.

 


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Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Ashes, Boston, gallery, ICA, installation, review, Steve McQueen, visual art

BEAUTIFUL TENSION: MCQUEEN AT THE ICA

Written by CHRISTOPHER EHLERS Posted February 7, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Steve McQueen’s Ashes makes its US premiere at the ICA

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Christopher Ehlers, Dan Byers, ICA, Mannion family, Steve McQueen

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