“For decades, the harbor was a noxious stew, a watery dump for Boston’s sewage and industrial waste. Like Lake Erie in the 1960s, Boston Harbor was given up for dead. But Lake Erie came back to life, and so has Boston Harbor. Its fate changed for the better in the 1990s when a sewage treatment plant opened to keep raw waste out of the harbor. Appropriately, the new museum building represents a similar rebirth for the Institute of Contemporary Art.”