Memorial Tribute to Dereck Stafford Mangus (1978-2024)
A Community Remembers A Prolific Artist and Writer After His Sudden Passing on July 7
Friends and Colleagues of the BMA Museum Guard, a prolific artist and writer, share their memories
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Bria Sterling-Wilson Safekeeps Her Grandmother’s Story
Joan Poncella at Waller Gallery Through July 27
A conversation with artist about her relationship with her grandmother, her archival process, and turning the unfolding of Joan Poncella Sterling's life into an exhibition.
John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” Found: May Pang on Love, a Recent Documentary, and Upcoming Exhibition
May Pang's 1970s Photos Capture an Intimate Side of Celebrity, Opening July 26th at Winkel Gallery
In October of 1973, Pang accompanied Lennon to Los Angeles to promote his album "Mind Games." What followed was an incredible 18 month adventure of star-studded parties, road trips, and unparalleled (if not uneven) creative output leading to Lennon’s comeback success. All the while, she took photos.
Polymer Polyps, Catholic Cicadas, and Drag Dryads: the Metamorphic Work of Raúl de Nieves
Lumpy, Dazzling, Amorphous Forms: and imagine you are here at the BMA
The sophomore Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Biennial Commission
The Art of Staying the Same and Always Changing: Transformer DC
Transformer’s tiny square footage to outsized contemporary art presence is its own genre-defying artistic practice
Transformer hosts about six exhibitions every year, transmogrifying its 14th & P street shoe-box space each time as far as these artists’ imaginations can push it.
The Work of Elizabeth Talford Scott in Good Company at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Black Woman Genius Features Ten Intergenerational Fiber Artists from the Chesapeake Area
How else could Baltimore properly honor the legacy of Elizabeth Talford Scott, but with radical unconventionality, centering community and accessibility?
2024 Rubys Artist Grants Announced
2024 Rubys grants provide $270,000 to 16 new projects across 4 disciplines, plus an annual alumni grant and 2 microgrants
The Rubys support artists in Baltimore City and Baltimore County working in performing, media, visual, and literary arts.
To Represent Ourselves: Indigenous Short Films at the BMA
Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative
These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.
Saba Hamidi to Bring Color to Maryland Avenue Bridge
New Mural Project Slated to be One of the Longest Artworks in Baltimore
Hamidi's 500-foot mural will stretch along both walls of the Maryland Avenue bridge between Lanvale and Oliver Streets midtown.
Brilliant Exiles: The National Portrait Gallery Celebrates American Women in Paris, 1900-1939
Remembering the Multiplicity and Influence of Early Twentieth Century Cultural Trailblazers
Brilliant Exiles comprises nearly eighty artworks depicting sixty American cultural influencers who went to Paris on the eve of World War II.
The Public Art Chronicles, Vol. IV: Pat Alexander
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.
The In-Between Spaces: Elena Volkova on her Pride Portraits
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.
Between, Through, Across: Exploring Migration at the DC Arts Center
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.
Seven Art Shows to See This Summer: June and July Exhibitions
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
The Fruiting Tree: Reflect & Remix at the Walters
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.
Too Little Too Late: a Maximalist Wake for the American Nightmare
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.
Gallery Roundup: Hoesy Corona at Enoch Pratt, False Relations at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Joyce J. Scott at Goya Contemporary
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
Issue 17: Transformation Hosted at good neighbor guest house and design shop
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 !!!!!!!!!