The new head of London’s Institute for Contemporary Art says that “the institute’s historic role as the place in Britain where fresh developments in modern American and European art could be witnessed – it was the first British gallery to show a Jackson Pollock – was no longer relevant, given the proliferation of galleries and museums such as Tate Modern. But its programmes of performance, film, music, art and talks should ‘provoke and challenge, keep pushing the boundaries. Britain deserves a space that tries to ask the deep questions; where people can look at the complexity of the world around them’.”