A Subway Mosaic that Moves Viewers, and Two Public Art Tragedies from a Baltimore Treasure
This month, Kathy O'Dell takes readers on a ride through, above, below, and behind Pat Alexander's beloved "Geometro" mosaic in the Lexington Market Metro station. Plus, the sad stories of two Alexander works that Baltimoreans can no longer enjoy.
Over the Course of Two Days this June, Volkova Created Collaborative Tintype Portraits with the City's LGBTQ Community
Shot over the course of two days at Current Space earlier this month, Volkova’s black and white tintype portraits of the LGBTQ community offer a dignified, complex document of the city’s queer scene.
A New Group Exhibition from Curator Fabiola R. Delgado Looks Beyond the Numbers on Migration
The ten artists on view in Between, Through, Across represent a diverse, intergenerational, multicultural group of creators with unique backgrounds, styles, and visions—each of whom have their own personal take on the subject of migration.
June and July Exhibitions in the Baltimore Region that Experiment, Collaborate, and Defy Expectations
Megan Lewis at Galerie Myrtis, Fragment(ed)ing at Zo Gallery, Transmission at School 33 Art Center, Nick Wisniewski at Swann House, Here in this Little Bay at the Kreeger Museum, Reflect & Remix at The Walters, and Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum at the BMA
An exhibit where theories pale in the bright light of unabashed enthusiasm.
Reflex & Remix at the Walters emphasizes the importance of artistic connections across genres and time.
Dinos Chapman and Jason Yates Two-Person Show at von ammon co. is a Grotesque Dirge for Consumer Kitsch
The eerie convergence of fantasy and reality in Too Little Too Late, which closes Sunday, June 16th, offers a darkly humorous framework within which to dissect American culture and its apparent decline.
Spring Has Sprung, Thrice
This spring, check out Crossroads by the Enoch Pratt Library's artist-in-residence Hoesy Corona, False Relations at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Goya Contemporary's Bearing Witness and NOW
Fun Party Photos from BmoreArt's Release for Issue 17
Thank you to Shawn Chopra and good neighbor, Mera Kitchen, Baltimore Spirits Co., AND especially to BmoreArt Subscribers !!!!!!!!!
The Titans of São Paulo's Modern and Contemporary Art Canon Command a Hometown Market Parallel to their Venetian Exposure
Thaís Franco, Collections Management Director of KURA Arte, reports from São Paulo's largest art fair, offering local insight on the Brazilian artists making waves in Venice.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: 4th International Placemaking Week, TRANSMISSION group exhibition opening at School 33 Art Center, Artists Sustaining Artists opening reception at Transformer DC, Gallery Blue Door's PRIDE opening reception at Emmanuel, Nicholas Wisniewski exhibition, and more!
A Review of Walk a Mile in My Dreams, Joyce Scott's 50-year retrospective now on view at the BMA
Surveying Scott’s oeuvre, one can see she isn’t preoccupied by death; Scott is preoccupied by the ways in which we choose to live—and treat each other in life.
An Introduction to Issue 17: Transformation
We present the region’s courageous leaders, creative explorers, and ground-breaking thinkers who are envisioning a better future and joining with others to make these collective dreams a reality.
Six Artists receive $90,000 in awards
The Month-Long Festival Closes May 31
Visual artists, business owners, musicians, performers, and so very much excellent food from the APIMEDA (Asian, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern and Desi American) communities are annually featured in a series of tours, events, and exhibitions.
Johab Silva's "Tales of the New World" at MoCA Arlington
Silva’s subject is nothing less than the global cataclysm we find ourselves in—from the lingering effects of colonization, to sustained war and genocide, environmental degradation, and rampant consumerism.
Preakness Photos by E. Brady Robinson
Along with weird horse names and laying a bet, the fashion at Preakness and other Triple Crown races is oddly traditional, a pageant of who's who in pastel suits, bowties, fancy hats, and floral dresses.
A Conversation with the Painter on the Pleasure of Process, Invigorating the Ordinary, and Etheric Bodies
For Chabwera, painting is an opportunity to turn inwards and reflect on the mind, body, and self. She then gradually externalizes those reflections through a singular piece or series.
After 180 applicants, Baltimore's last five mayors have selected their choices for official portraits by Baltimore-based artists
The Baltimore Mayoral Portrait Competition has selected Ernest Shaw Jr., Kennedy Ringgold, Gaia, Megan Lewis, and Karen Warshal for $20,000 commissions
