Let Them Eat Cake: Nora Howell at Gallery CA
The Artist's Solo Exhibit "Now You See It, Now You..." Challenges Structures of Privilege
An artist interrogating her personal experience of identity, power, and womanhood.
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Wine and Opera: Baltimore’s Most Romantic Night Out
Cinghiale’s Monthly Opera Salon Series Offers World Class Music Paired with Northern Italian Cuisine
Date Night Out in Baltimore Just Got More Theatrical
The True America: Recovered Photographs by Ernest Cole Offer a Time Capsule of Harlem
Discovery of More Than 60,000 Negatives Brings Extraordinary Exhibit to MICA
A lively exercise in street photography and a tentative love letter to the neighborhood at the center of New York’s Black Arts and Civil Rights Movements, Cole’s works grant us a look, through the lens of an observant foreigner, at Black American expressiveness in the late 1960s and early 70s.
The 2025 BMA Gala in Photos
An Event Designed to Honor the Sherman Family, Wangetchi Mutu, and Amy Sherald
Photos from the BMA's Annual Gala Celebration and After Party
A Day in the Life: Towson University’s Studio Art MFA
I Went Back to My Alma Mater to Spend a Day With Current TU Student, Annie Tamini
Second year MFA candidate Annie Tamini met me in her fourth-floor studio—a prime corner spot with a window. We spoke about her reasons for attending Towson, and how her experience in the MFA program is so far unfolding.
Baltimore-based Artists Make (Art) History with Mayoral Portraits
Four New Mayoral Portraits Allow Artists to Create Historic Narratives for the Future
While Baltimore's legacy of recent mayoral leadership is still in the making, these portraits offer concrete examples of the power of portraiture
Iconically Yours, Baltimore
An Exhibit and Auction at C+C Gallery Celebrating 10 Years and 20 Issues
Drinking in Galleries (or Toasting at their Wake) and Learning to Love Art in Bars
Exhibition Round-Up: C. Grimaldis Gallery Shuts its Doors this Saturday, But There's Plenty of Art to See Elsewhere Before Last Call
From Club Car to the Mount Royal Tavern, bars are filling in the void left by gallery closures, as Current Space proves galleries can be great bars too.
Collaging Past, Present, and Future: Jackie Milad’s Gorgeous New Book is Here
Milad Discusses What Inspired "Shabtis Gather" and Her Partnership with BmoreArt on the New, 200-Page Publication
"When thinking about the medium of a book, it can be very intimate. One person, or a couple of people, can experience it at a time. The physicality was really important to me, because I wanted people to have that kind of direct, tactile experience."
Photography and the Black Arts Movement: What Power for Change Can an Image Hold?
National Gallery of Art Exhibits Works Spanning 1955-1985
Photography and the Black Arts Movement gathers the many threads that makeup the Black experience: joy and struggle, beauty and violence, individuality and collective identity, personal expression and social conscience, creativity and political action.
In Conversation: Richard Ayodeji Ikhide & Lowery Stokes Sims
Ikhide's "Tales From Future Past" is on View through November 22 at CPM
CPM Gallery recently announced that the run of Richard Ayodeji Ikhide's solo exhibition "Tales from Future Past" would be extended to November 22 by appointment. At the opening on September 27, the British-Nigerian artist was interviewed by luminary art historian, curator, and educator Lowery Sims.
Anna Divinagracia: a Bridge from the Philippines to Highlandtown
In "Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory" Divinagracia Explores Immigration and Identity at Creative Alliance
"One of my biggest intentions with this show was to really spotlight Filipino presence in Baltimore and specifically immigrant lives and journeys.”
BmoreArt News: Amy Sherald, Hilton Carter, Inviting Light
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Amy Sherald shines brightly in Baltimore, Hilton Carter makes his house a home, Inviting Light returns with a Wickerham & Lomax, John Akomfrah moving image + sound installation opens at the BMA, mayorial portraits unveiled at City Hall, Maryland Film Fest is here, and more
Iconically Yours: BmoreArt Icons Ball Photos
Swagger and Style at the BmoreArt Release Party for Issue 20
On Saturday, November 1, BmoreArt hosted 400+ guests at the Icons Ball & Benefit at the Lord Baltimore Hotel.
Timely and Timeless: Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” at the BMA
A Baltimore context imbues the exhibition with the feeling of an ecclesiastic gathering of old friends, a family reunion, a sacred circle.
A quintessentially modern American painter, Sherald employs centuries-old painting techniques in order to arrive at images that belong in the art historical cannon
Fall Comes to Light: Garden Glow at Ladew
Light Festival Sponsored by PNC Puts Monkton Sanctuary on the Map as Arts Destination
“It’s not a Halloween event," Garden Glow producer Halle von Kessler maintains, "It’s a light festival.” Pumpkins just happen to be one of the many unique mediums used by the event’s sculptors. Ladew's Garden Glow took place this October 15-18th in Monkton, MD.
BmoreArt News: BMA, Create Baltimore, Driskell Center
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: BMA receives largest gift in its history from Amy and Marc Meadows, BOPA becomes Create Baltimore, Driskell Center adds to its archives, Amy Sherald excitement, AVAM celebrates 30 years, MICA announces a new MPS degree, Academy Art Museum, and more!
Cauldrons, Collages, Spellbooks, and the Stage: A Conversation with Alexander D’Agostino
Where Archive Meets Queer Magic
For me, going to the archives is a mental health and wellness practice. Seeing queer memories feels really healing.