Magical Thinking and Climate Reality at the AVAM’s The Secret Life of Earth: Alive! Awake! (and Possibly Really Angry!)
As soon as we go inside, into the art and out of the heat, I can tamp down my existential climate dread and cynicism a bit.
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Art AND: Ashley Minner
Artist, Educator, Curator, Activist, and Member of the Lumbee Nation
“Amongst our people, education is a real value, because we haven’t always had easy access to it.”
Worlds on the Brink of Collapse
Nora Sturges and Jackie Milad at C. Grimaldis Gallery
At C. Grimaldis Gallery, two solo exhibitions by Baltimore-based artists Nora Sturges and Jackie Milad repurpose cultural iconographies.
Artist-Run: Ten Alternative Baltimore Art Spaces
A guide to Baltimore's artist-run spaces.
Healing the Body Politic: Mel Chin’s Fundred Project at Eaton DC
Mel Chin’s ongoing Fundred Dollar Bill Project is a community-based collaborative artwork that joins individual voices in proclaiming the value of individual human lives and calling for action to solve the crisis in lead poisoning.
Through Archives and Ephemera, the Corcoran Revisits Its Decision to Cancel Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1989 Retrospective
In the late 1980s, a selection of new projects funded by the National Endowment of the Arts caught the concerned eye of Congress.
Entering Enchantment: An Interview with Karen Finley
"This work is about empathy. I wait; I go into meditative spaces and I will either have automatic writing or I'll have an image."
