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
A Conversation with the Multimedia Artist and Activist on Her Dear Black Girl Project and the Power of Making Space for Community
"I was raised by a village and grew up in a multicultural environment, so community is the secret to my work's success."
Reflecting on the History of the American Labor Movement while Looking Ahead into the New Millenium
National Pavilions Question their own Identities in a Globalized World
At the national pavilions there’s an appropriately diverse set of strategies for addressing the legacies of colonialism and immigration from both traumatic or optimistic perspectives.
Exhibits at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Clayworks, Peale, and CPM
Stories conjured in plastic, clay and wood: 4 art exhibits mix meaning and material
An Enchanted Evening at the Creative Alliance in Photos by E. Brady Robinson
On Saturday April 27, the Creative Alliance hosted their signature gala event: The Marquee Ball, Baltimore’s costume party to end all costume parties.
Curator Adriano Pedrosa Celebrates Acts of Resistance, Independence, Vulnerability, and Joy in Spite of a Sick, Sad World
The 60th Venice Biennale takes on themes of displacement, environmental injustice, racism, colonialism, but also manages to avoid easy cliches by treating artists from marginalized backgrounds as individuals with agency.
Fourteen Works of Art of MANY Excellent Choices from the CA Annual Auction
A Subjective and Personal List of Auction Artworks in Preview that I would Love to Acquire!!!
Women’s Autonomy and Safe Spaces: Erin Fostel, Lynn McCann-Yeh, and Cara Ober
In Conjunction with BmoreArt’s C+C Exhibit featuring Fostel’s charcoal drawings of women’s bedrooms, a conversation with the Co-Director of the Baltimore Abortion Fund
