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Leap of Faith: Delita Martin’s Calling Down The Spirits at NMWA
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.
Skin, Saint, Aura: The St. Francis Missal
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.
Highlights from Zona Maco
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.
Art AND: Tiffany Jones
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."
Art Utopia: Material Art Fair CDMX
Mexico City's Artist-Centric Art Fair
Material is a young art fair but is now all grown up, both figuratively and literally.
Mexico City Art Week: Day Two
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.
Mexico City Art Week: Day One
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 They’re Wearing: Pratt Contemporaries Black & White Party
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.
MASTERS: Monsieur Zohore
MICA MFA Candidate, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Spectacle
"Don’t come if you don’t already know what you want to get out of yourself."
This Art Kills Fascists
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.
Sealed for Eternity
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.
FOLLOWING: @jerrygogosian
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."
Art AND: Monica Ikegwu
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.
Silent Retreat
An Interview with Filmmaker Karen Yasinsky
One Night Only, explores the visual languages of silent film stars and stand-up comedians.
Natural Interaction: Christine Neil
An Interview with Watercolorist and former MICA Professor Christine Neill
The artist talks about the impact climate change has had during her lifetime, what it was like to be one of the few mothers at MICA in the 1980s, and her beliefs about an artist’s role in educating the public.
Art of the Decade
Best Baltimore Exhibits, Projects, and Experiments 2010-2019
Baltimore’s pool of talent is an ever-expanding universe.