Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Stephanie Mills and The Roots will come alive at Artscape 2026, RWDF announces new structure for Rubys, Washington Opera leaving Kennedy Center, new Maryland Opera initiative, Turner Station celebrated in new CCBC exhibition, Temi Wynston Edun opens, and more.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Opening reception for Ken Friedman at m/ (Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum), opening reception for Beth Yashnyk at Julio Fine Arts, panel discussion with Myrtis Bedolla at Aspen Institute, opening reception for Julia Kim Smith at Waller Gallery, curator's talk for Dara Lorenzo, and more!
"The Hour Of The Dog" and the Politics of Enmity at the BMA
If official security doctrine dreams of a purified nation, sealed against contamination, "The Hour of the Dog" insists on mixture, residue, and relation. It asks us to remain in the twilight—to resist the comfort of absolutes, to listen again, and differently, to voices that refuse to fade.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Paws Out! at The Walters, The Stoop celebrates 20 years, the aftermath of fire at La Cuchara, Unavu dishes up Southern Indian cuisine, AVAM's MLK Dare to Dream Day, Ruth Orkin exhibition at NMWA, Teri Henderson named Operations Manager at CCCC, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Reception for photographer Albert Ewing at Lord Baltimore, workshop with Murjoni Merriweather at BMA Lexington Market, Vagabond Players present 'The Shark is Broken,' opening reception for Gulnur Tuluoglu at Gallery CA, Creative Alliance Resident Artist exhibition opening reception, and more!
Stories I Will Remember and You Should Read from a Year of Editing and Writing for BmoreArt
My personal picks for articles you might've overlooked during a jam-packed year
Milestones: Publications, Exhibits, and Events
At the end of 2025, we want to thank the BmoreArt community for working with us, supporting what we do, and showing up.
A Slice of the Eternal City, Preserved for Posterity
How four artists came together to save one of Baltimore's most iconic third spaces through collective ownership.
Scenes from the Hampden Holiday Tradition
Since 1947, residents of the 700 block of W. 34th Street have been decking the halls, porches, gardens, brick, and formstone with a blinding array of Christmas, Hanukkah, and assorted other Winter-Solstice-celebration lights. Where else can you find pink flamingos in a nativity scene?
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Jerrell Gibbs profiled in Forbes, NIck Cave exhibition coming to SAAM, Rauschenberg exhibition at Academy Art Museum, Baltimore festival dates for 2026, small plates for Spike Gjerde, and Baltimore-based Art Books for the Holidays!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
'Express and Explore Tour' at The Walters, Saul Zaentz showcase at SNF Parkway, celebration for Linda Dusman at UMBC, Sam Gilliam Lecture with Theaster Gates at JHU Bloomberg Center, Highlandtown Night Market, UMBC Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Open Studios, Current Art Market, and more!
Plus a New Documentary Film on the People, Labor of Love, and Guaranteed Debacles Behind Our Quirkiest Holiday Tradition
This year’s Mayor’s Christmas Parade will take place on Sunday, December 14th, 2025 from 1pm to 4pm. "Parade Day", directed by Michael Ivan Schwartz and Hannah Oneda will screen at The Charles on Thursday, December 18th.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
ThCynthia Daignault's hard work pays off at Art Basel, Tom Hall stepping down from WYPR's Midday, John Waters' top ten movies of 2025, Baltimore Beat's culture year in review, Baltimore musicians are the best, new episode of Free Admissions from The Walters, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
'Express and Explore Tour' at The Walters, Saul Zaentz showcase at SNF Parkway, celebration for Linda Dusman at UMBC, Sam Gilliam Lecture with Theaster Gates at JHU Bloomberg Center, Highlandtown Night Market, UMBC Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Open Studios, Current Art Market, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Remembering Timothy App, American Visionary Art Museum Day announced, MICA students win big at AXA Art Prize competition, Picturing Mobility at UMBC, Daniel H. Weiss departs JHU, Maryland Lynching Memorial Project and BSO announce partnership, BMA Ball cashes in, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Dara Lorenzo tour + lecture at Goucher Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore Cinematic Universe at SNF Parkway, Ernest Cole gallery talk + reception at MICA Meyerhoff Gallery, Samantha Sethi artist talk at Goucher Bond Gallery, Picturing Mobility panel discussion at UMBC, Monument Lighting events, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
John Edmonds lecture at MICA, DC Native American Heritage Day at National Museum of the American Indian, Bazaart at AVAM, Body and Soul Holiday Sale at Motor House, Mill Centre Holiday Open Studios, Submersive Productions You are Here Gala at Creative Alliance, and Deceived opens at Everyman Theatre
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
abdu mongo ali named inaugural Alice and Franklin Cooley Composer in Residence at the BMA, Derrick Adams stays local, Turnstile Grammy nominations, Wickerham & Lomax's Soft Gym at the YNot Lot, Theaster Gates to speak at Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Alma Thomas, The Phillips
