Critical Review

Critical Review

Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan Open in The Baltimore Peninsula

Cole shares a swelling of emotions in seeing the line out the door for her Baltimore Slutty Vegan opening. She hopes the Bar Vegan opening will be a replay of that success. 

The revolution will be local. 

Paying attention to and valuing that which makes us special as a city and state will empower you.

Western Civilization is in Crisis, but One of Europe's Top Art Fairs Makes Dystopia Seem Weirdly Sexy

Never have I felt more like a future anthropologist wandering an excavation of the present. Have we preemptively organized our visual culture around an acknowledgement of its own impending ruin?

"Trying to avoid politics in art is like trying to dodge raindrops on a rainy day."

In 2020 alone, 133 artists around the world were detained, 82 were jailed—and 17 were killed. And yet, artists have repeatedly ignored the possibility of reprisal and made work envisioning change in trying circumstances.

The Artist’s Inaugural Exhibition in DC is a Timely Act of Resistance

As an exhibit, Confluences showcases Box's willingness to evolve her approach to image-making over two decades to meet the challenges of conveying complexity.

A Two-Person Show at the James E. Lewis Museum of Art Considers Caregiving with Labor-Intensive Media

Franklin and Moore champion the courageousness of the human spirit.

Everyman Theatre Delivers on Eboni Booth's Prize-Winning Play, Through March 2

Primary Trust—Everyman Theatre’s newest entry on the Baltimore theater scene—reminded me of how refreshing it is to take a seat and just watch a good telling of a tale, with a couple of surprises, more than a few smiles, and an occasional heart-tug that arrives at an ultimately satisfying ending.

Curators Andrea Dixon and Teri Henderson Prove Contemporary Collage is Greater than the Sum of its Parts

In “LAYERS: The Art of Contemporary Collage," 34 artists harness collage’s unique ability layer images to build worlds.

Visual Art that Feeds the Soul, Inspires the Mind, and Wrests You Out of the Grip of Wintry Online Malaise

This month, I am sharing four major exhibits with you that will restore your faith in humanity, inspire you to dream big and convince you to bundle up and head back out into the real world.

It's important that we agree on the conditions to declare that we have arrived.

This week, Baltimore's creative scene was profiled in Le Figaro, France's oldest newspaper, but the concept of a "Baltimore Renaissance" is false.

The History of Communication Has Always Been a History of Calculated Risk

The cheekily titled If Books Could Kill (on view through August 5, 2025) focuses on toxic materials—mercury, arsenic, and lead—that were used by scribes, illustrators, and printers in a variety of historical contexts.

TikTok's Days May be Numbered, but its Content Lives on in Oil Paint for Posterity

At MOCA Arlington, Marissa Stratton creates a dialogue that feels both familiar and estranging, as if one is scrolling through memories materialized on physical surfaces.

Top Exhibits of 2024: Museums & Galleries

The best Baltimore art exhibitions of 2024 were groundbreaking, culturally relevant, and made me feel more connected to the place and time where I live.

Textures of Us: Devin Allen at Galerie Myrtis Reflects Baltimore Respect, Culture, and Power

Whether you’re a native Baltimorean, or someone who calls Baltimore home like me, you’ll find pieces of yourself everywhere you look in this exhibit. It’s a love song to Baltimore.

December exhibitions that provide hope, insight and inspiration, centered specifically in the past, present and future of Baltimore

As we head towards 2025, it's worth remembering that artists see the future in ways the rest of us don’t, so we have to keep our attention focused on them so we can find new sources of strength and solidarity.

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