Part of an initiative to bring art to new sites within and around the building, this installation by Barbara Kruger will fill the Lower Level lobby and extend into the newly relocated Museum bookstore. Famous for her incisive photomontages, Kruger has focused increasingly over the past two decades on creating environments that surround the viewer with language. The entire space—walls, floor, escalator sides—will be wrapped in text-printed vinyl, immersing visitors in a spectacular hall of voices, where words either crafted by the artist or borrowed from the popular lexicon address conflicting perceptions of democracy, power, and belief.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Luxury & Loss at The Walters, Culture on Wheels exhibition at Eubie Blake, MICA appoints four new Board of Trustee members, Thomas Dolby's Requiem for the 80s to debut in 2027, special guests announced for Center Stage's Charmz production, and a review of Eubie Blake's 5x5 in Art Africa.
Join the Author of "Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down" at the Peale Museum for "Jones Falls 2076"
Since the 2016 election, he's spent much of the past decade researching how America's political and spatial division, xenophobia, and general distrust of "others" have fostered a self-reinforcing fortress mentality.
The National Aquarium Commissions Work of Young Artists Impacted by the Justice System
Just over ten years since its founding, BYA is going strong: a major commission by the National Aquarium, murals in several locations around the city, and most importantly a reach that has young people throughout the city excited about joining a community and making art.