Montalvo Arts Center, ICA collaborate on must-see show in San Jose

Collaborating with the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Jose has been in the works for Saratoga’s Montalvo Arts Center pretty much since Executive Director Angela McConnell arrived in 2009. And even though it took 15 years for the two arts groups to find the right project together, it was most definitely worth the wait.

“Place: Reckonings by Asian American Artists” opened at the ICA’s downtown gallery last Friday, and it is a big, provocative, must-see show that calls out for multiple...