[1] Since Patt's death in 2019, the ICI has been dormant, and as of late June 2021 it no longer occupies its long-time home at 1512 S. Robertson Blvd.
[6][7] In addition to sponsoring such projects, the ICI housed some permanent exhibits as well as an archive and a library that were open to the public by appointment.
Among the permanent exhibits were: In 2011, the LA Weekly, in its annual "best of Los Angeles" issue, listed the Institute of Cultural Inquiry as the "best place to figure some shit out".
[9] Angela Glass, writing in Afterimage, called it "[a] concise and rewarding collection of essays.... [that] cleverly provokes far-reaching reconsideration of the lingering presence of blind spots and aura in today's art and culture.
The book featured artworks by Shimon Attie, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Andre Breton, Tacita Dean, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Vic Muniz, and Gerhard Richter and artist's projects by Dorothy Cross, Pablo Helguera, Jeremy Millar, and Helen Mirra, among others.
[11][12] Richard Sheppard wrote that "the editors and publishers have done their work magnificently: the layout is generous and clear, the paper and illustrations are excellent, the structure is disciplined and subtle, the documentation, especially the bibliography...is impeccable.
"[13] Jonathan Long called it "beautifully designed, printed, and bound to the highest standards, and [it] reproduces visual material with exemplary clarity.
ICI Associates have included Robert Allen, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Anna Ayeroff, Greg D. Cohen, Deborah Cullen, Christel Dillbohner, Axel Forrester, Martin Gantman, Antoinette LaFarge, Gero Leson, Yolande Macias McKay, Arnaldo Morales, Deborah Paulsen, Pam Posey, Danny Redfern, Lothar Schmitz, Sande Sisneros, Terri Valli Trotter, and Daniel T. Walkup.
The Institute's Monkey Head Residence Program included Martin Gantman, Anna Ayeroff, Antoinette LaFarge, Greg Cohen, Pam Posey, Christel Dillbohner, Christian Smith, Amy Kaczur and the collective known as Thin End of the Wedge.