“About Time,” the title of the new Charles Atlas career survey at the ICA, is a not-so-subtle double-pun. Atlas works primarily in film and video — what the art world likes to call “time-based media” ...

Toward the end of the farcical 24-minute video As Seen on TV (1988), a Chaplinesque figure played by the actor Bill Irwin loses his grip on reality. The video starts with Irwin's bumbling Everyman ...

“About Time,” a retrospective opening in Boston, comes at a time of radical change for a pioneer of media dance. Charles Atlas in his studio near the Meatpacking District in New York. His ...

Installation view of “Charles Atlas: About Time” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Photo by Mel Taing / courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York Welcome to One Fine Show, ...