Institute of Contemporary Art
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Institute of Contemporary Art
New Building, New Mission For Institute in Boston The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is getting ready for the opening in September of its new $51 million home, the first new art museum to be built in Boston in nearly 100 years. Designed by Diller Scofidio & Renfro, the 65,000-square-foot building on the waterfront will have three times the exhibition space of the institute's current building on Boylston Street. The institute will no longer function as a kunsthalle (an art space without holdings of its own). Instead, it will become a collecting institution.