Exhibit: Idiosyncratic Iconoclasts
An Exhibit and Auction at C+C Gallery Celebrating 10 Years and 20 Issues
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Tawny Chatmon & Rozeal. Expand Art’s Canon in Two DC Museums
Portraiture by Two Black Women Artists Calls for a Truer Look at History
Tokyo-born, Maryland-based artist Tawny Chatmon and DC native Rozeal. (yes, there is a period at the end of her name) are featured in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and nearby National Gallery of Art, respectively.
The Wow Factor: Five Must-See Museum Exhibits in Baltimore
What defines a great exhibition and how do they generate collective energy and wisdom?
If great exhibitions are the currency of museums, which ones in Baltimore are offering audiences rich and substantive investments?
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.
Ornamenta, Baltimore’s Art Jewelry Gala is Back
This year's Ornamenta theme is "Ruby," so all things RED will be trending!
The annual Baltimore Jewelry Center Gala Event on Feb. 7 offers dinner, drinks, dancing - and a jewelry auction featuring incredible wearable 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.
J.M. Giordano and “The Secret City”
Between Kitsch and Crisis: Baltimore’s Unsung Middle Ground in Color at the Peale Museum
The Peale Museum will host a reception for Joseph Mario Giordano's "The Secret City: New Works in Color Film" Friday, January 16, 6–8 p.m.
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.
Ernest Shaw’s Humanizing Project
The Painter Calls for Relooking at the African Diasporic Experience
"The Unembodied In-between of Blackness: that is where our humanity rests. That is where anyone from any ethnicity, any culture, that is where they connect with the work."
Typographical Revolutionary: Ellen Lupton
A balance between seriousness and joy makes the MICA Professor and author a design rockstar.
Lupton has a global following but remains deeply rooted in Baltimore, the co-founder and director of MICA’s MFA in Graphic Design program.
Long Overdue Essays in Abstraction: Amalie Rothschild’s Modernist Eye
Rediscovered Modernist Amalie Rothschild at Goya Contemporary
Baltimore Modernist Amalie Rothschild had a solo exhibit at the BMA in the 1970s, but had to leave in order to build a career.
“A Little Bit Nasty”: A Conversation with J Taran Diamond
What the Metalsmith Makes of Pearls, Fake Hair, and the Unsung Heart
All of the work that I make is, to some extent, rooted in my own personal experience, but I try to be a bit less visually representative of “This is art about being a transgender woman of color” and more like “This is two materials interacting with one another in a way that I find relatable.”
Mining the Museum: New MCHC Exhibit Explores our ‘Revolutionary’ State
Collecting Maryland is a Love Letter to our State
A new exhibit presents complex stories that portray the past and help us understand the present.
Lydia Pettit Brings Horror to Art Basel Miami Beach
An Interview with the Painter on her ABMB Debut with Galerie Judin
Blending vampy slasher-flick theatrics with Pettit's classically-trained skill, it's a weird, fitting entrance to Galerie Judin's booth—which we've affectionally been calling "the one with the spooky girls."
Let Them Eat Cake: Nora Howell at Gallery CA
The Artist's Solo Exhibit "Now You See It, Now You..." Challenges Structures of Privilege
An artist interrogating her personal experience of identity, power, and womanhood.
Wine and Opera: Baltimore’s Most Romantic Night Out
Cinghiale’s Monthly Opera Salon Series Offers World Class Music Paired with Northern Italian Cuisine
Date Night Out in Baltimore Just Got More Theatrical
The True America: Recovered Photographs by Ernest Cole Offer a Time Capsule of Harlem
Discovery of More Than 60,000 Negatives Brings Extraordinary Exhibit to MICA
A lively exercise in street photography and a tentative love letter to the neighborhood at the center of New York’s Black Arts and Civil Rights Movements, Cole’s works grant us a look, through the lens of an observant foreigner, at Black American expressiveness in the late 1960s and early 70s.
The 2025 BMA Gala in Photos
An Event Designed to Honor the Sherman Family, Wangetchi Mutu, and Amy Sherald
Photos from the BMA's Annual Gala Celebration and After Party