Curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, this show took shape in a period marked by a relentless virus, upsetting political news, horrifying police brutality, and a grinding land war.
This week's news includes: Poet Nia June appears on Rob Lee's The Truth in This Art podcast, Baltimore musician Alison Ramírez of Peach Face, tenant power, and more reporting from The Atlantic, Nonprofit Quarterly, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
Fostel’s drawings are as much about what’s there as what’s not.
This Week: Essential Tremors with Brandon Soderberg, Sam Gilliam at the Hirshhorn, FIRED UP! reception at Coppin State, Red Emma's hosts D. Watkins, MICA: NOVUS opening at The Peale, Black Activism exhibition at MD Center for History and Culture, and more!
"The different traditions are also not the only things coming together. There is also the integration of modern and traditional art forms."


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A Garden Party for BmoreArt's subscribers, who made Issue 13 possible, as well as featured artists, contributors, and media partners
Flanked by ranks of Quattrocento holy figures, Stephen Towns’ protagonist feels at once at home and strikingly distinct.
These artists don’t present an escape from chaos—rather, they ask us to look, listen, and sit inside it.
It all started in a DC living room eight years ago.

Preview of The Peale's $5.5 Million Renovation
After a five-year renovation, the Holliday Street building is starting a new life2022 Legislative Roundup: New State Funding for the Arts
MD lawmakers approve more than $50 million for the arts, including funding for a makerspace program and for Baltimore public schools' art supplies and equipmentBaltimore News: J.M. Giordano at MAP, Wallace Lane on Preakness, Public Space Design
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional mediaFeeling the Echoes from Ukraine with Irina Rozovsky, Vlad Smolkin, and Elena Volkova
The artists with roots in Ukraine and Russia discuss war, photography, solidarity, and support
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There are as many ways to be an artist as there are people pursuing our profession.
Barber, David, and Dorman transport viewers to fictitious and prophetic scenarios of apocalypses and hopeful futures that suspend disbelief through immersion in surreal realms.
The intimate group show, Order and Uncertainty: Five Abstract Painters, features painters who share what curator Timothy App calls a classical impulse to bring order to abstraction: Power Boothe, the late Julie Karabenick; Patsy Krebs, WC Richardson, and Linling Lu.
Beats Not Bullets, the brainchild of Kevin “Ogun” Beasley, was started six years ago as a way to teach students in Baltimore how to produce and create music.

The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 5/22
Kendrick Lamar, Buffalo, The Believer, monkeypox, medical fatphobia, and moreBaltimore News: Lost Weekend Festival, D. Watkins New Memoir, & Toni Tipton-Martin
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional mediaThe Artist Statement & Why They Mostly Suck
Best Professional Practices for Artists: The Artist Statement Made Simple'I Got a Monster' as a Cautionary Tale of Cop Counterinsurgency
Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg talk about corrupt cops and the craft of writing collaborativelyArt AND: Bonnie Crawford
On care work, connection, and paying close attentionFeatured
We slip on a jacket and slide into a part of them.
“Seeing the world differently and reimagining tomorrow” was the theme for the Phillips Collection’s Gala held on April 29th at the Washington National Cathedral, designed to honor a century of leadership in the art and museum world.
"While exploring new hobbies, I came across new materials [and] I had collected ideas over the years that I had always hoped to explore."
For Woody, music and community are one and he strives to make music that “sounds like my city.”
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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This Week: Baltimore Crankie Festival at Creative Alliance, American Craft Council Marketplace at the Convention Center, Andrew Snyder and Clay from the Classroom opening reception at Baltimore Clayworks, Kumasi J. Barnett exhibition at The Peale, and more!
This Week: Cade Center Gallery Student Art Exhibit opening, Jazz outdoor concert and talk at Evergreen, Lauren R. Lyde solo exhibition reception at Top of the World, J.M. Giordano opening reception at Maryland Art Place, The Lost Weekend at Greedy Reads, and more!
Teri Henderson in conversation with Jeffrey Kent at The Ivy Bookshop, Gormley Gallery hosts a Senior Thesis opening reception, documentary screening and discussion with Angela N. Carroll, nia love, and Scott Love presented by UMBC CIRCA, Rosa Leff opening at Hotel Indigo, and more!
This Week: Maryland Film Festival 2022 at the SNF Parkway, UMD's 2022 MFA Exhibition, Station North Sips, Visions of Night: Baltimore Nocturnes at MD Center for History & Culture, Flower Mart, Music, & Majolica Mania at The Walters, the Peale lunchtime lecture with Paul Chaat Smith, and more!

Native American Visibility and The Baltimore 'Reservation'
A conversation between Ashley Minner (Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina) and Dare Turner (Yurok Tribe of California)A New Print Fair for Baltimore
Organizers hope to attract collectors of all stripesSaint Lucy Books Embraces Hybridity and Conversation
An interview with artist, writer, and professor Mark Alice Durant about small press Saint Lucy BooksArt AND: Ashley Minner
Artist, Educator, Curator, Activist, and Member of the Lumbee NationReflecting on (and in) Yayoi Kusama at the Hirshhorn
The Hirshhorn exhibit offers a fine-grained account of an artistic career that spans more than 70 years
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View AllIssue 12 features maximalist, exuberant, over-the-top artists, projects, and thinkers. Released in November, 2021, the "More is More" issue features artist Mina Cheon, BMA chief curator Asma Naeem, CityLit's Carla Du Pree, and MacArthur-winning conductor Marin Alsop, the subject of a documentary by Johns Hopkins University film professor Bernadette Wegenstein. It examines over-the-top and immersive art projects and a number of artists and individuals whose “more is more” attitude enlivens, encourages, and challenges the status quo, demanding that we envision a bold future.