BmoreArt’s Picks: August 25-31
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
2026 Sondheim Finalists award ceremony at The Walters, FEMME Art Fair in DC, Subscape and Love Groove music festivals, Monica Bravo lectures on modern Mexican photography at Academy Art Museum, Ultra Naté’s sold out BMA performance, closing recepiton for The BIG Show at Creative Alliance, and more!
Tangential Realities at BmoreArt’s Connect + Collect Gallery
An Interview with the Exhibition’s Featured Rubys Artist Grant Recipients
Tangential Realities features Rashida Bumbray, Red Rae, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, and Ada Pinkston, four artists who root their practices in recognizable reality before venturing into the speculative, the utopian, and the unknown. Organized with Rubys Artist Grants Program Manager Alex Ebstein.
Envisioning a Deliberate Future: Michael Sherman’s Art of Giving
Unlike other collectors who value objects over all else, Sherman uses his position to champion artists.
Most BMA visitors don’t realize that Simone Leigh’s sculpture and Lou Fratino’s The Red Nude are there because of Sherman.
BmoreArt News: MICA’s New Exhibit, National Gallery Acquisitions, The Phillips’ Famous Renoir Returns
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
MICA exhibition featuring Ford/Philip Morris Foundation Fellows for Artists of Color, National Gallery acquires “significant new work,” Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party returns to The Phillips, Iron Crow Theatre finds a brick and mortar home, and more!
Baltimore Honky Tonk: A Photo Essay
The Western Shindig at Waverly Brewing Company and Mobtown Ballroom Has Become a Baltimore Favorite
Expect to step into a tiny universe where everyone is having a good time.” That’s how Baltimore Honky Tonk organizer Alex Lacquement describes experiencing one of his events.
Clay in Your City: NCECA is Coming to Baltimore
What to Expect When the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference Lands in Baltimore Next Year?
Baltimoreans Share their Experiences from this Year’s Edition in Detroit
Fuerza & Fe: an Interview with Chef David Zamudio
The Executive Chef and Owner of Josefina on His Journey to Opening Harbor Point’s Spanish Dining Destination
“We finish every plate—adding the olive oil, the zest, everything—to ensure it’s all just right, absolutely perfect. Otherwise, it turns into the kind of kitchen you see in any other restaurant.”
SEEN: The Baltimore Farmers’ Market
Street Style as Fresh as the Produce
A Photo Essay of Baltimore Street Style, captured at the Sunday Downtown Farmer’s Market
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Derrick Adams’ “View Master” is a Joy Ride Through His Eye-Popping Oeuvre
The Artist’s First Mid-Career Survey is on View at the ICA/Boston Through Labor Day
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A Glowing Past, Present, and Future: MICA Turns 200
Celebrating the Legacy of Maryland Institute College of Art
Seeing the Essential: The Sigmund M. and Mary B. Hyman Collection of American Art
A Deep Dive into the Ashcan School, New York’s early-1900s Painters Who Emphasized the City’s Street Life
Maureen Nicol: A Conversation with the Founder of Our House
Creating an Urban Haven for Children and Caregivers Alike
Robert Kanigel’s New Book Explores the Untold Stories of the Antioch Mosaics
“Uncovering Antioch” Will Send You on a Treasure Hunt to the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Antioch Court
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