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The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week: Ainsley Burrows at Gallery in the Sky, Revisions photography exhibition at UMBC, reGenerate opening at MAP, Bromo Art Walk + After Party, Brush Mural Fest at the Convention Center, and more!

From Concrete to Colorful

By working at such a large scale to cover not only walls, but at times the ground, ceiling, and pieces of furniture, Jessie and Katey are able to transform the surrounding environment, often gray and concrete, into an immersive chromatic experience.

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: The Walters announces new Latin American Galleries to open in 2025, Walter Hood named 2024 Vincent Scully Prize winner, Back to School on the Walter's 'Free Admissions' podcast, BSA's Roz Cauthen on 'The Truth in This Art' with Rob Lee, and more!

What To See During The Most Important Week for Art in New York

Armory Week in New York is overwhelming. We asked Chelsea insider Dylan Farley to share her "must-see" picks, including a group show of Baltimore artists curated by Derrick Adams.

A Decade of the New-York-Based French Artist's Work Bellows in a New Baltimore Art Venue

With Babble, Babble, a provocative gathering of a decade’s worth of his work, Antoine Catala (Toulouse, France, b. 1975) powerfully orchestrates a dystopic display of language as a failed tool for human understanding and community.

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MAP's Annual Survey of Recent MFA Grads Places Artists from UMD, UMBC, and MICA in Discourse

This iteration of MAP's annual showcase of new regional talent reminds us why seeing artworks and artists in-person is vital, sprawl be damned. The exhibition closes Saturday, September 7.

Gallery Shows Perfect for Autumm's Back to School Attitude

Summer '24 at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Monica Ikegwu at Galerie Myrtis, Inaugural Exhibition at The Crow's Nest, Balancing Acts at The Peale, and Esther Kläs at CPM Gallery

Exhibits at The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery Offer a New Conversation Between Two Iconic Artists and Activists

Two DC exhibitions take contrasting approaches to understanding the artistry, lives, and enduring relevance of these legendary American artists.

Yet Again, Short-Sighted Newspaper Leadership Fails to Understand the Difference Between Quantity and Quality of Readership

The Washington Post is cutting their ongoing Galleries column, a loss to local readers, artists, and audiences.

Caitlin Berry Appointed Director of New Irene and Richard Frary Gallery at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in DC

The new Irene and Richard Frary Gallery to open in October at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.

Op-Ed: Maryland Arts Funding Cuts in 2024 Impact Everyone

Despite MD’s Standing in the Top 3 for Arts Funding, Governor Wes Moore Included a $437,000 Cut to MD State Arts Council Funding

Do We Want to Win? Sondheim Prize Finalists Question Class, Legacy, Gender, and Access

Hellen Ascoli, Amy Boone-McCreesh, and Sam Mack's Crafty Aesthetics Belie Conceptual Poly-Fil

Four Artists, Two Shows, One "Bad Mother" of an Art-Viewing Experience at Current Space

Monique Crabb, True Arizola-Lyons, Charles Mason III, and Monica Mirabile Nurture, Care, and Play in "Love & Cruelty" and Viscous

John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" Found: May Pang on Love, a Recent Documentary, and Upcoming Exhibition

May Pang's 1970s Photos Capture an Intimate Side of Celebrity, Opening July 26th at Winkel Gallery

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Become a subscriber and join our community! For two (free) tickets to each magazine release party, subscribe at the Artist ($100) or Premium ($250) level. Pre-order a copy of our first full-length book, City of Artists, and secure your copy. Gift the gift of BmoreArt art publications this season!

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A Conversation with the Artist and Founder of Night Owl Gallery

Night Owl Gallery along with its studios, workshop space, and programming, is not just a venue for displaying art; it’s a collaborative hub where artists and the community intersect, creating a synergy that drives our mission.

Sweetness and Solidarity

You could call Fruit Camp a tattoo shop, but that would be reductive.

Dismantling the Monolith

Multiplicity is not a show about Black collage, it’s about Blackness in American collage which is entirely different.

Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media

This week's news includes: Trawick Prize finalists, Christian Siriano at the DNC, Mt Vernon Place receives $750,000, Amish Quilts at SAAM, The Store Ltd to close, European Avant-Garde exhibition at JHU Bloomberg Center, and more!

Bruce Willen's "Ghost Rivers" is a Public Monument to Baltimore's Forgotten Waterways

Four Years in the Making, Celebrate the Completion of One of Baltimore's Geographically-Longest Artworks with Film Screenings in Wyman Park this Thursday, Aug 1

That Unexpected Thing: Seph Rodney, Vlad Smolkin, and Cara Ober in Conversation at CPM

A Conversation about Black Visual Artists Engaging in Material Concerns and the Cultural Implications

Forged Together: Collective Action at the Baltimore Museum of Industry

Reflecting on the History of the American Labor Movement while Looking Ahead into the New Millenium 

Good Design is Timeless

An Interview with Betty Cooke

Conversations Podcast 1: Betty Cooke

For our first podcast episode, Cara Ober, founding editor of BmoreArt, interviews Betty Cooke, the esteemed art jeweler

The Baltimore Arts & Culture Guide

Search: Museums, Galleries, Performance, Film, Organizations & Advocacy, Literary Organizations, Media, Bookshops, Maker, Mixed Use & Studios, Education, Grants & Awards, Residencies, Artist Housing, and Supplies. This guide is for Baltimore area artists, makers, creatives, and anyone who wants to get involved in the arts in the region.

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Bask in the Majesty of Kotic Couture, Baltimore’s Reigning “Queen of the Underground”

Since her arrival in Baltimore nearly a decade ago, Couture’s profile as entertainer and host has risen in a way that has been anything but chaotic.

Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative

These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.

An exhibit where theories pale in the bright light of unabashed enthusiasm.

Reflex & Remix at the Walters emphasizes the importance of artistic connections across genres and time.

Baltimoreans Transform Historic Farm into a MD Writers' Retreat

Ron Tanner and Jill Eicher loved the idea of an educational non-profit and ultimately decided to make it a space dedicated to writers.

Água Até Aqui: Imagine Water Up to Here

A Design-Based Campaign Makes Brazil’s Current Environmental Crisis Visible and Poignant

The Public Art Chronicles, Vol. IV: Pat Alexander

A Subway Mosaic that Moves Viewers, and Two Public Art Tragedies from a Baltimore Treasure

Lane Harlan's Libationary Empire

The Four Award-Winning Businesses Redrawing Baltimore's Food and Nightlife Map

The Art of Staying the Same and Always Changing: Transformer DC

Transformer’s tiny square footage to outsized contemporary art presence is its own genre-defying artistic practice

Mai Sennaar Promises Gold This Summer

A Conversation with the Author on Her Debut Novel, They Dream in Gold, and an Upcoming Collaboration with Her Mother, Diana Wharton Sennaar, at the BMA

Connect + Collect

Connect+Collect is a BmoreArt initiative designed to engage new and established collectors and to build relationships with Baltimore based artists and galleries through talks, gallery tours, and studio visits.

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Issue 17: Transformation
Issue 17: Transformation
May, 2024

In Issue 17, we feature the region’s courageous cultural leaders, creative explorers, and groundbreaking thinkers who are envisioning a better future and joining with others to make these collective dreams a reality.

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Stories from Issue 17: Transformation
From Concrete to Colorful

By working at such a large scale to cover not only walls, but at times the ground, ceiling, and pieces of furniture, Jessie and Katey are able to transform the surrounding environment, often gray and concrete, into an immersive chromatic experience.

Sweetness and Solidarity

You could call Fruit Camp a tattoo shop, but that would be reductive.

We Caught up with Current Space's Co-Directors ahead of its Epic Weekend-Long 20th Anniversary Festival

Current Space is 20. Feel old yet? Don't worry: this weekend, it's throwing a three-day birthday bash that will bring you back to your art school days. Isa Gold interviewed directors Michael Benevento and Julianne Hamilton to get some pearls of wisdom from their two decades of experience.

Bask in the Majesty of Kotic Couture, Baltimore’s Reigning “Queen of the Underground”

Since her arrival in Baltimore nearly a decade ago, Couture’s profile as entertainer and host has risen in a way that has been anything but chaotic.