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MICA’s Fête of Lights Celebrates 200 Years

The modern Fête bridges MICA's 200-year history with contemporary artistic practice, and is a revival of events that originated in the late 1920s

MICA has leaned into this historic milestone by mining its rich and storied past, hosting a Bicentennial Gala called the Fête of Lights on February 21, at the Main Building and Cohen Plaza, featuring wearable art, art installations, a student-led fashion show, parade, and massive party.

Visual Art

Seen & Heard: A Conversation with Julia Kim Smith

Julia Kim Smith's Transit arrives at a moment when the language of displacement has become uncomfortably familiar.

Smith, the daughter of Korean refugees who immigrated to the United States after the Korean War, assembles fifteen years of work spanning video, text, embroidery, and blood into a reckoning that refuses the comfort of metaphor.

Visual Art

The Waterfowl Festival: A Celebration of Eastern Shore Culture and Art from … Everywhere

With the Support of PNC, the Eastern Shore Tradition Has Become a National Mecca for Nature Artists

The Waterfowl Festival in downtown Easton, Maryland, may have the appearances of a local shindig but having just celebrated its fifty-fourth year this past November, the three-day citywide exhibition of avian art and Eastern Shore culture regularly draws more than double the town’s population.

Visual Art

Studio Visit: René Treviño

A Conversation with the Artist Ahead of His Upcoming Exhibition at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, Texas

"Star-Crossed: Recent Works by René Treviño" opens at Erin Cluley Gallery in Dallas, Texas on February 21 with a reception from 5–7 pm

Artworld Global

A Ladder to the Cosmos: Alex Da Corte at Glenstone

Pop Nostalgia and Melancholy Technicolor Criticality Collide with the American Fever Dream

Da Corte has several ambitious mixed-media installations presently on view at Glenstone—injecting an unexpected bit of kitschy neon suburban dystopia into the bucolic institution's minimalist halls. It's a show worth the pilgrimage.

Visual Art

Fiber with Guts: Soft Flesh and Volatile Insides

Squishy, Political, and Visceral Textile Works at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery

"Soft Flesh and Volatile Insides" upends expectations in Goucher College’s Silber Gallery. This group exhibition—including works by Monique Crabb, Charlotte Richardson-Deppe, Ash Garner, and Stephanie J. Williams—utilizes textile as a core material and its softness becomes a vehicle for tension.

Film

John Akomfrah: Twilight Against the Doctrine

"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. 

Bmore Art