Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Tom Miller Week returns, Joël Díaz appointed Executive Director of Clifton House, Bezos led WaPo fires art critic Sebastian Smee, CLLCTIVLY presents 28 Days of Black Futures, 2026 Illuminator Awards at The Peale, the loss of Brewer's Art, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Terry Thompson at Eubie Blake, Baltimore Black Dance Collective at The Gordon Center, Maryland Arts Day, The Chicory Project at The Walters, Teri Henderson and Tracey Beale in conversation at The BMA, performance by Mandy Brown at Peabody Library, 405 Daily exhibition opening at Area 405, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: The Walters hires Dr. Katherine Larson as its Chief Collections and Curatorial Affairs Officer, BMA announces Matisse / Fratino exhibition, Turnstile wins a Grammy, Tola's Room rowhouse museum, Brewer's Art closes after 30 years, NGA post on Joshua Johnson, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Teresita Fernández and Dolores Zinny in conversation at MICA, Tahira Chloe Mahdi talk at UMBC, opening reception and curator talk with Dr. Bibhakar Sunder Shakya at TU Center for Asian Art + Culture, TU Faculty Biennial and MFA Candidate Exhibitions, MICA Bicentennial Exhibition, and more
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Brandon Weinbrenner named Artistic Director at Everyman Theatre, three Baltimore artists featured in NPG exhibition, Joyce J. Scott honored by BCPSS, Amy Sherald exhibition breaks records at BMA, Sinners' hairstylist Tené Wilder nominate for multiple awards, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Our Being is Being in Time at CCCC, Sweaty Eyeballs ANIMATION MIXTAPE at SNF Parkway, Rooted/Growing reception at MICA, absolute alternatives opening reception at UMBC CADVC, opening reception for Margaret Jacobs at BJC, David Page and Sara Dittrich opening reception at Red Giant, and more!
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore is home to multiple James Beard Semifinalists, Rhea L. Combs and Ellen McBreen announces as BMA Curatorial Fellows, Ami Dang becomes Director of Development at The Lyric, Smithsonian shakeup, more cancellations at the Kennedy Center, Glenstone Museum's 2026 message, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Savannah Wood + Teri Henderson in conversation with Siân Evans at Peabody Library, MICA's Bicentenial Opening Celebration, closing event for A Lake in a Desert at MICA Brown Center, ARTificial opening reception at MAP, abdu mongo ali performance at the BMA, and more!
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!
