Critical Review

Critical Review

At the Baltimore Jewelry Center, Toelke Considers her Subject as Image, Sculpture, and Found Object

True to its title, the solo show features a playful sampling of Toelke’s varied mediums and practices—from bold, colorful works on paper depicting jewels to actual jewelry, such as pendants, rings, and a new take on the vintage charm bracelet.

Opioid Wakes posits the subject of drug overdose and loss at the center of this exhibition.

There are so many rich and meaningful layers of complexity in this exhibit, its inspiration, and its significance, both for those directly impacted, and more universally, by drug overdose and opioid addiction.

Artscape 2023 Highlights, Maps, Public Art, and Indoor Venues

How do we evaluate Artscape's success? After a three year hiatus, Artscape returns with leadership placing our creative economy at the center of their story.

A Fresh Adaption by Joanie Schultz on Stage Through September 28th

This season, Everyman leads off with an innovative staging of A Doll’s House, the play for which Ibsen is best known.

Amos Badertscher’s Photography Survey at UMBC Captures Baltimore’s Queer Underground from the 1960s to the early 2000s

The images in Lost Boys can feel haunting, due to the deaths of both author and subjects. But in the end, this is a show that generates considerable power from the process of making present.

A Homecoming to Puerto Rico Offers the Chance to Check-in on the Island's Cultural Institutions

Visits to two museums in San Juan: the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico

A Tribe Called Run, A Baltimore Running Collective

What I love about running and specifically about running with A Tribe Called Run is just this: everything you can see and learn on a long run in Baltimore.

Congratulations to 2023 Sondheim Award Winner Abigail Lucien!

Abigail Lucien is the recipient of the $30,000 fellowship, Kyrae Dawaun awarded a residency at Civitella Ranieri, and Nekisha Durrett the residency at the Bromo Art Studios.

WYPR presents New/Next Film Fest at The Charles Theatre August 18-20 with a variety of parties, programs, and concerts

A good film festival honors that artistic core, and brings its city an international view of independent cinema that hopefully also says something meaningful about the city in which the festival takes place.

From a Memorial for Victims of State Violence to Marxist Chickens, Abigail Lucien, Nekisha Durrett, and Kyrae Dawaun aren't Afriaid to get Political

Exhibition of the 2023 Sondheim Finalists at The Walters: Abigail Lucien, Nekisha Durrett, and Kyrae Dawaun   Introduction   In the 18th annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Award Finalists Exhibition, ...

After a Nearly Year-Long Hiatus, Waller Gallery's first Show Post-Renovation is a Welcome Reminder of the Space's Necessity

"Surviving the One" by Roberto Dyea (AKA Tsi Yoo Nah) closes this Saturday, June 22nd. It marks the first show at the new and improved Waller Gallery since the gallery closed for renovations last September.

Bright Color Contrasts with An Emotional Burden to Process Loss and Find Solace

A Visual Artist Explores the Loss of Her Mother in Dramatic, Color-Filled Expressive Canvasses

An Exhibition of 81 Individual Artists Curated from the MSAC Artist Registry

What does a survey of contemporary art in Maryland look like in 2023?

Each numbered case contains all the necessary components for a person to install one of these works in a place of their choosing

CPM’s newest edition project is a collectible, collaboration between gallery director Vlad Smolkin and artist Luba Drozd

Sadie Barnette's New Eagle Creek Saloon at STABLE Arts is a commemorative installation named for the first multi-racial queer bar in San Francisco, operated by Barnette’s father, Rodney from 1990 to 1993

If this spirit of pride and activism can permeate multiple communities across geographic locations, gaining collective mass, what can be said for our ability to harness that power to shape the future?

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