Critical Review

Critical Review

Art Jewelers Tackle Contemporary Reproductive Rights with Ancient Forms

In Plan B, currently on view at the Rebecca Myers Gallery at Cross Keys through the end of March, artists and jewelers address contemporary reproductive politics using a form from ancient pottery: the Greek amphora.

The Baltimore-Based, Media-Mixing Artist Defies Expectations at the Myrtle Beach Art Museum

In Randi Reiss-McCormack’s gritty, graceful work, there’s wild, yet carefully choreographed dance.

A Review of 'Called to Create' at the National Gallery of Art

Highlighting 40 new acquisitions and the power of potential.

Dozens of Artists Bid Farewell to One More IRL Art Space

A refreshing exhibit featuring a wide breadth of Baltimore artists at various points in their careers

Two Downtown Exhibitions Celebrate the Narrative, Physical Properties of Sculpture

Over the years the definition of sculpture has continuously expanded and contracted to include installations, site specific works, and other various forms of media.

This Iteration of the Genre-Bending Berlin Institution Considers Scale with Alternating Humor, Gravity, and Weirdness

The artworks on display might all be defined as technologically speculative but ran a range from past and present critiques to future possibilities (the term speculative comes up all too regularly in such spheres). Techno-utopianisms were not the theme here...

In Washington, DC, an ambitious exhibition considers British photography from the turbulent '70s and '80s

A concise but impactful exhibition of photographs from the 1970s and 1980s at the National Gallery of Art, presents a boisterous and iconoclastic photographic culture

Artist Dedicated to Exploring the Subconscious in Lush Twenty-Year Retrospective at Gallery Blue Door

Hal Boyd wades into the gloriously oddball humanness of being. He pursues the lusty ocean of the every-person subconscious—a dreamland hauled up for all to see. Here relationships are loaded, flowers burst sexy, animals prowl cackling, beauty and hilarity intertwine.

Phylicia Ghee’s 'Liminality: Midwifery and the Sacred Womb' at The Nicholson Project

After a residency at The Nicholson Project in DC, Ghee created a container for intergenerational inquiries about care and caregivers

The Personal is Political in Gentrifying DC

Themes of fragmentation, remembrance, and celebration flow through White’s varied yet cohesive body of work.

The Multidisciplinary Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) Receives His First, Overdue Major Museum Retrospective Posthumously

In working with a fixed set of decades-old family portraits, Ellis constantly conjured the past. His sculpted surfaces acted as a sort of Ouija board, though instead of a planchet, Ellis was guided by his father's original negatives to commune with his spirit.

Ten Baltimore Art Exhibits in 2022 that Made us Reevaluate Our Priorities

Thank you to the museums, galleries, colleges, artist-run spaces, and universities consistently supply us with exhibitions that challenge our intellect, influence our emotions, and encourage us to participate in creative production.

A rare opportunity to experience innovative constructions and beautiful objects, as artists build a legacy steeped in historical research

A groundbreaking exhibition about the promise of upward mobility and the sacrifices endured by Black Americans to realize a safer and more stable life, realized through the personal lens of family history from those who experienced it directly.

ABMB Just Started the Countdown to its 21st Birthday, but the Champagne Has Long Been (Over)flowing

Last week, Art Basel Miami Beach turned twenty. It’s hard to overstate how extremely the once-unlikely Floridian spinoff of the highbrow Swiss art fair has transformed both the global art market and its host city.

Memento Mori at The Parlor, Figure / Narrative at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Manifest Presence at Catalyst

Three Succinct Reviews including a group show about death in a former funeral home, as well as figurative narrative paintings from established masters Grace Hartigan and Raoul Middleman and a new generation of painters in Baltimore

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