PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.- Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is hosting a new show of contemporary art scheduled for May 1 to August 1, 2004, titled “The Big Nothing,” featuring works by over 60 artists “exploring themes of nothing and nothingness in contemporary art . . . . the void, the ineffable, the sublime, refusal, nihilism, zero." Among the varieties to be presented in the big exhibition are the empty gallery space (Yves Klein, Robert Barry, Michael Asher), the Zen nothing (Yayoi Kusama), the vacuity of consumer culture (Roe Ethridge, Andy Warhol) and the big negation (Louise Lawler, Jutta Koether). Other artists to be included in the show are Bas Jan Ader, Richard Artschwager, Michel Auder, Larry Bell, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Jessica Diamond, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Gabriel Orozco, William Pope.L, Santiago Serra, Robert Smithson and James Welling. "The Big Nothing" is also spreading throughout Philadelphia all summer long. Among the attractions are a nonperformance of Rene Clair’s cinematic Entr’acte (the music played through speakers on a stage) and the Nothing Cabaret, an evening of performances in the spirit of Cabaret Voltaire.