A poetic consideration of a video piece that captures the dazzling mundanity of the everyday
Barber's 2017 video piece “3 Peonies,” featured in the BMA’s virtual Screening Room, is like watching a dream play out, feeling both familiar and surreal.
On teaching, art-making, acting, and working with young artists on a recent mural in Upton
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
Lu’s highly disciplined art engenders a timeless rendering
The colorful abstract paintings of Linling Lu at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC seemed at first to be formal abstractions but expanded into spiritual, cultural, and personal visions.
A conversation with Laura Amussen about her exhibition, Flourish, at Ladew Topiary Gardens
It’s a treat to be able to experience Amussen’s work in person during Covid restrictions, in a multifaceted exhibition at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton.
A redesign for Necessary Tomorrows includes a new online exhibition featuring Kirby Griffin, Gyasi Mitchell, Glenford Nuñez, and Sharayna Christmas
Christmas is an immovable force in the Baltimore arts landscape, a textbook multihyphenate mother, dancer, producer, and the founder of the nonprofit arts organization Muse 360 Arts.
Hot Sauce Artist Collective partners with BOPA to curate outdoor pop-up exhibitions
A group of printmakers, educators, neighbors, innovators, and curators are using their platform to bring outdoor art and culture events to different neighborhoods in Baltimore City.
The range of works in Copeland’s collection highlights her discerning interests and tastes
Copeland's collection is a reflection of the depth and width of her 30-year career in museums: contemporary art, functional works traditionally sidelined as craft, and objects of historical importance for what they remind us about where we come from.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Require Structural Change and Transparency in the Way Museums Acquire and Sell Art
Once an institution starts viewing its collection as revenue-generating assets, how does it reconcile its obligation to the artists it has collected in the past and the curators who made the decisions to collect the art?
A photographer asked friends to imagine society deeply changing, at a molecular level, into a fantasy where they are the agents of change
Gatewood's photos function as moments of healing, which build up to create a more conscious future.
The letter indicates conflicting understanding within the BMA itself about the justification for the deaccessions
A group of former trustees and members of Baltimore Museum of Art’s accessions committees sent a letter to Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh requesting that their offices investigate the BMA for its recent decision to deaccession three major works.
Family secrets, the challenges of being a female business owner, and how knowing chocolate’s history might make you savor it more
She’s had a reverence for the confection since a fateful day in 2012 when, while working an event as a nutrition consultant, she stepped on a postcard advertising chocolate-making classes.
Schaun Champion's romantic outdoor photos of Black men and women wearing floral crowns are the images we need right now
The series came from the artist's question: has anyone seen a black flower? No one could give her an answer, but she knew they existed.
Artist Jo Smail in conversation with curator Kristen Hileman
Jo Smail, whose faculty for visual poetry is matched by her perceptive and radiant use of language, has produced her first artist’s book.
How Cherry's art practice reflects his strength as a craftsman, historian, and storyteller
Cherry’s assemblage portraits create a sense of familiarity, especially through the everyday objects and materials he incorporates as symbols for larger questions and preconceived notions of American history and culture.
In the museum’s effort to foreground experience over spectacle, the pendulum swings too far
In truth, I am drawn to Glenstone for the same reasons I question its efficacy.
Processing your core love unit in peril requires deep work of the mind and soul.
To maintain sanity, I escaped a lot to the wilds of the shore, particularly Assateague Island.
Liz Faust, Thomas James, Michael Benevento & Julianne Hamilton, Giulia Piera Livi
This edition of Quarantine Diaries features five Baltimore-based gallerists and curators who have adapted their practices to create new opportunities for artists to survive and thrive through quarantine
Observing light and reflecting on the domestic experience
There is a sense of hope in this illusion of free time.
