Neverending Story: The Power of Pattern
Six Artists Achieve an Intricate Buzz in 'Surfacing' at MONO Practice
What if the observation, repetition, and cultivation of pleasure found in ornamentation were central to human existence?
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FOLLOWING: @thenannyart
Uncanny Resemblances Between Art and Fran Drescher’s Wardrobe from Campy ‘90s Sitcom 'The Nanny'
Welcome to FOLLOWING, a new series of profiles and interviews of the art world social media accounts that make us think, laugh, cry, love, or sometimes just “like.”
‘Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art’ Centers Hope, Humor, and Ritual
The exhibition, curated by Dr. Deborah Willis, features 35 artists working in photography, installation, and time-based media
The exhibition centers hope, humor, and ritual as humanizing strategies to investigate and negotiate the impacts of migration.
Art AND: Angela N. Carroll
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’ Glimpses Our Earthly Precarity
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?
Ten Contemporary Artists Revising History in Baltimore
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.
News Briefs: Sondheim Semifinalists, Black Arts District’s Plans, WPA Funding for DIY in DC
Baltimore Art News Stories
News Briefs are a compilation of art news around the Baltimore region.
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.