When she took over at the ICA in 1998, the museum was a tenant in a former police station on Boylston Street. Perennially marginalized amid a Boston cultural scene more enamored of its European ...

From 1973 to 2006, it was home to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. “It was built to keep people out and be really formidable,” said Medvedow, who was hired as the ICA’s director nea ...