For Carroll—a regular contributor to BmoreArt—contemporary writing about Black artists has to move past tokenism
"The canon has purposely left out certain creatives and we’re trying to rectify that. Let’s not see this moment as a trend."
Designs for Different Futures, the special exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, considers a range of changes to come
What choices do we have now and what future will we end up with?
Amber Eve Anderson, Lance Bankerd, Se Jong Cho, Ami Dang, Taha Heydari, Eze Jackson, Leslie King-Hammond, Amanda McCormick, Deyane Moses, and Ernest Shaw
For visual artists, curators, performers, composers, and publishers, the purposeful creation of new archives, as well as the respectful transformation of past collections, is a common threat that unifies us on a quest to tell new stories and to diversity existing archives.
Baltimore Art News Stories
News Briefs are a compilation of art news around the Baltimore region.
Martin's mixed media works present the strength of spiritual ancestors and place questions about beauty and race into daily consciousness
Walking through Delita Martin's solo exhibition, Calling Down The Spirits, felt like I was flipping through my grandmother’s photo albums, seeing intimate details of people that I could never know: a turn of the neck, an upward cast of an eye.
A remarkable depth is on clear display in this small but potent exhibition at The Walters
You don’t have to be a connoisseur or a Catholic to enjoy this medieval relic.
The view from Latin America's largest art fair
Unlike Basel, where you know the names of every single artist and gallery, at Maco there was so much space for discovery.
Tiffany Jones talks community art, motherhood, and the honesty of Baltimore's art scene
"I feel like the city wouldn't be what it is without its artists or creative people."
Mexico City's Artist-Centric Art Fair
Material is a young art fair but is now all grown up, both figuratively and literally.
What's up in the capital's best galleries within walking distance of each other in Roma Norte
Enjoy Mexico City’s real weirdness while it lasts, and as a visitor, be careful not to buy into the theme-park-ification befalling nearly every global destination.
CDMX Art Week gallery openings just ahead of Zona MACO and Material Art Fairs
Last year, Zona MACO brought in over 62,000 visitors compared to ABMB’s 81,000. Although they’re similar on paper, MACO is a smaller fair in a much larger city—which is really what makes this week feel different.
What do you wear to the Pratt Contemporaries annual Black and White Party?
Whether guests were lions, bears, flying monkeys, or straight-up divas in black and white, this event felt exceptional without being stuffy, lavish but not vulgar.
MICA MFA Candidate, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Spectacle
"Don’t come if you don’t already know what you want to get out of yourself."
Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Field workers, sharecroppers, mothers, grandmothers (and occasionally fathers too) share space in her oeuvre with abolitionists and civil rights icons, everyone with dirt under their fingernails, everyone in all of their ordinary glory.
James Bouché on Mormonism, Family History, and Guilt
Family History Center is Bouché’s most explicitly personal show to-date, in part because he is there to guide you through the material.
Memes, Art World Gossip, Tough Love, and Predictions for the New Year
@jerrygogosian: "You can still be an artist and find a way to support yourself without academia, grants, or gallery sales, and frankly, the bigger “world” needs the influence of artistic thinkers the most."
The artist discusses her career so far, doing her sisters’ hair, and the contemporary figure painters who inspire her.
Painter Monica Ikegwu’s goal is to take “ordinary people and make them into art in the ordinary clothes that they're wearing.
An Interview with Filmmaker Karen Yasinsky
One Night Only, explores the visual languages of silent film stars and stand-up comedians.
