Five-artist show at Mono Practice invites reconsiderations of abstraction
The intimate group show, Order and Uncertainty: Five Abstract Painters, features painters who share what curator Timothy App calls a classical impulse to bring order to abstraction: Power Boothe, the late Julie Karabenick; Patsy Krebs, WC Richardson, and Linling Lu.
Proceeds benefit the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund, which gives cultural workers emergency financial aid
This concrete gesture of solidarity is Elena Volkova’s way of “trying to turn grief into something productive,” she says. “Better than being curled-up crying on the floor.”
Joseph Orzal and his team envision a departure from the art-world machine
It all started in a DC living room eight years ago.
The artist discusses obsession with images, audiovisual archives, and exploring the limits of technology
Her work tells a story of real objects typically recast in an otherworldly way.
The Hirshhorn exhibit offers a fine-grained account of an artistic career that spans more than 70 years
After a two-year, Covid-related delay, One With Eternity, featuring five works by the beloved nonagenarian Yayoi Kusama, is now open at the Hirshhorn.
The artists with roots in Ukraine and Russia discuss war, photography, solidarity, and support
This war is gruesome, immoral, and cruel—both to the Ukrainian people, civilians targeted every day, and to the Russian soldiers who are dying for a cause many of them do not believe in.
A conversation with the now-deceased painter, contrarian, mentor, and longtime MICA faculty member
"I really believe the academic training I received was good for me, because I think, intrinsically, I’m a nut."
In 'Don’t put it back like it was,’ Larner explores creative destruction and transformation through materials such as mold, hair, and stainless steel
The first object I meet immediately implicates me in a process of dismantling.
“I wanted to create a space for Black people to feel surrounded by ancestors, surrounded by love.”
The future looks busy and bright for Merriweather, who completed her Fountainhead Residency in September and returned to live and work at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, where she’ll be in residence through July 2022.
Succinct reviews of three must-see exhibitions in Baltimore this weekend
CENTENNIAL: On The Topic Of Now at Current Space, Open House: Art, Craft, and Domesticity at MICA's Decker Gallery, and a new art gallery/retail space in the former ICA Baltimore building on North Avenue.
The LLC, 405-417 East Oliver Street Partners, closed on the four-story, 71,744-square-foot building for $3.8 million
The legendary Greenmount West artist studio and exhibition space, owned and operated by artists since 2002, was sold to an LLC formed by the nonprofit Central Baltimore Partnership and real estate developer Ernst Valery on March 8, 2022.
On care work, connection, and paying close attention
"I do think that artists have always played an important role in imagining alternatives and bringing to light things that we’re not discussing otherwise."
How an upbringing in Baltimore and an earlier career in law influence the BMA's chief curator
Naeem considers her shift from law to art history, which had been an early passion, to be just that: a shift and not a U-turn.
Featuring the central fair Zona MACO, a collaborative show organized by galleries called Arthouse Project, and the artist-centric crowdpleaser Salón ACME
I sometimes think that CDMX is Baltimore's bigger, cooler, distant cousin.
With 'Richard Yarde: Beyond the Savoy,' a watercolorist gets his due at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The exhibition will be many people’s first encounter with Yarde’s distinctive improvisational and graphic watercolor style which colorizes, enlarges, and simplifies historical photographs of Black American life, history, and culture.
An Interview with Max Lents of the Baltimore Spirits Company and Gallery
The Baltimore Spirits Co. Cocktail Gallery offers a chance for one of my favorite pairings: cocktails and art.
Three succinct reviews of three must-see exhibitions in Baltimore this weekend
Exhibits at Project 1628, Maryland Art Place, and Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola
Frost's paintings and drawings, on view at C. Grimaldis Gallery, contain a playful pressure and classical beauty
The experience of viewing Light Engagement, Carol Miller Frost’s solo show at C. Grimaldis Gallery, is anything but what its title implies.
