Soft Water Hard Stone is curated by Margot Norton and Jamillah James
The 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, the museum's fifth, exhibits works by 40 artists and collectives from around the world including Baltimore's Cynthia Daignault and Kahlil Robert Irving.
Courtney Richeson's series presents varied ecological regions and built environments
The Views from the Train series mimics the contemplative act of looking out the window and speculating on the various ways of living in the world
The larger-than-life bronze statue of McCardell, sculpted by Sarah Hempel Irani, is located in Carroll Creek Park
There are so many more stories to tell about female-identifying people throughout history, and so many histories neglected and erased, but it is exciting to see the beginnings of new figures celebrated on this kind of stage.
MAP’s retrospective celebrates 30+ years of Baltimore’s underground performance art showcase
A discussion with Laure Drogoul about her show at Maryland Art Place and the 14 Karat Cabaret, an “Exquisite Corpse Manifest”
Antwaun Sargent's book-turned-exhibition features contemporary Black photographers working across the worlds of fine art and fashion at MICA
This cohort of photographers apply the fine-art idioms of landscape, portraiture, and still life to fashion photography.
Rebecca Marimutu is a contemporary photographer and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the self, identity, and materiality
Both analog and digital, Marimutu’s photo collages reveal a process of self discovery and self representation through the active manipulating and reconfiguring of material into sculptural figures.
A compelling mix of archival and artistic presentations, combining didactic texts with creative installations and works by visual artists
Their first goal was to understand just what has been lost: to reconstruct the contours of the expansive collection.
An Interview with Curator of the Americas Ellen Hoobler
Translations and Transitions celebrates Mexican and Central American History and Culture through November 7
Three Baltimore exhibitions worth a visit this week
Bill Schmidt and Jan Razauskas’ Spatial Fabrications at MONO Practice, Color and Illusion: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris at the BMA, and Rania Matar’s She at C. Grimaldis Gallery.
Saskia Kahn's Skatepark Baltimore is an ongoing, collaborative, photo-based art project
Skatepark Baltimore is an ongoing, photo-based art project about resilience, love, and identity.
There is a feedback loop between Bill Schmidt's studio and his visual world, where mysterious shapes take on greater significance
Schmidt works at a tiny scale so that viewers to have to get close to his paintings, to have an intimate and “one-on-one relationship with the surfaces.''
The Current Space Members Cocktail Party on September 30
Photos of guests under giant banana leaves and vines and twinkling lights, and a conversation with Michael Benevento and Julianne Hamilton about Current's outdoor adventures in music, art, and community building.
Mann’s wall-sized collages and installations rework and play with her own life and history, visually summarizing the collision of her upbringing
Mann simultaneously combines Eastern and Western influences, using extremely old mediums such as Sumi-e ink, invented in the first century AD in China, and contemporary ones such as Yupo paper, to create a synthesis that is personal and multi-faceted.
An integral part of Gatlin's process is to look at a big idea in different ways and consider it from every angle
"I identify as interdisciplinary and sometimes I even go as far as to say non-disciplinary because I have a craft and DIY background. I don't necessarily feel like discipline is the right word to use. I love materials and I love playing with something new, I think that’s the thing that pulls me."
Micah E. Wood's intimate portraits capture a bold musical vision
Color-saturated images of favorite Baltimore-based bands inspired by fashion, design, and art
"Laurie Anderson: The Weather" presents more than fifty works from across a renowned career
Featuring sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, and juxtaposing pieces from across her career with a host of recent works , "The Weather" is a dazzling display of what the art historian RoseLee Goldberg once called Anderson’s “powerful inventive drive.
This group exhibition of contemporary Black Baltimore- and DC-based artists plays on personal and collective histories
The show’s larger focus is material culture, specifically Black material culture featuring objects that contain history and tradition.
Why the director of the performance series In the Stacks and curator at Hopkins' Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection wants you to listen to Classical music
"I’m inspired by these musicians that weren’t satisfied with the presenting platforms or ensembles that existed, so they just created new ones."
