Critical Review

Critical Review

In two exhibitions, a photographer playfully explores the macabre and the whimsical

Jennipur Jane’s twin exhibits, "Ephemerally Yours" and "Rituals," now on view at Fell’s Point gallery The Alchemy of Art, are centered around photography that “explores the duality of human nature.”

Contemplating the legacy of protest art created by the famous American Catholic nun-turned-artist-educator

'We Care: Works by Corita Kent' at Silber Gallery is a vibrant color bomb mission-driven text-heavy advertisement-inspired serigraphs.

Alberto Cavalieri’s Have & Have-Not at Catalyst Contemporary, Parallax at the Gormley Gallery, and Abstraction at the C. Grimaldis Gallery

Three succinct reviews covering selection of contemporary sculptures, abstract paintings, and the boundaries of photography in Baltimore.

The Current Exhibition of 2022 Sondheim Semi-Finalists at School 33 Confirms its Relevance as an Exhibition Space

As BOPA continues to create new pathways to support Artscape and other major initiatives for the arts in the region through its strategic plan process, I hope that School 33 is brought back into the spotlight as one of Baltimore’s “Big Three” nonprofit exhibition spaces, where it belongs.

Smail's new exhibit is equal parts blended diversity and congruous incongruity.

Smail’s carefully constructed work is built crisply, with shifting visual echoes.

Fletcher creates her textiles with an unconventional material—Kanekalon hair.

Walking into one of Artise Fletcher’s textile workshops, which explore societal beauty standards and individual relationships to hair, audiences typically “come into it skeptical, not knowing what to expect,” she says.

A major exhibition at the NGA probes doubles and difference

The exhibition opens up the inexhaustible problems of the double, demonstrating how art is particularly well suited to explore them.

Two ceramics exhibitions at Towson University push the limits of the medium, with an artist talk by kelli rae adams tomorrow, Oct. 6

"Ex-tend, Ex-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay" is a compelling celebration of the versatility of ceramics. "fortune:folly" is a powerful and captivating show in which kelli rae adams explores and criticizes current financial systems.

'The Space Between Us' at Gallery CA recontextualizes experiences that are personal yet also universal

By recontextualizing personal and universal experiences and focusing on artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, the show presents an opportunity for other BIPOC artists to continue breaking the mold of what abstraction can look like: a fundamentally multifaceted form of expression.

Step right up and beat your hope to death at the world's most depressing art show!

Curated by Kader Attia and titled Still Here!, this year’s edition mulls the lasting impacts of colonialism, modernity, globalization, and ecological exploitation and collapse—as well as dozens of tangentially related ills.

To Go Faster at Current Space is a cohesive group exhibition about the impact of our cultural obsession with velocity

A dynamic group show that explores the rapid pace of society, the collective need to move at a brisk speed, and how that affects our surroundings.

The Peale and Maryland Art Place convene a range of contemporary ideas into vivid and comprehensive group exhibitions

If you are curious about the future of the contemporary art world in Baltimore, our regional MFA and Visual Arts programs are brimming with talented art world contenders, including students, faculty, and alumni.

The contemporary painter's work holds sorrow and joy, pain and comfort, tears and laughter together in the same space

Toor's paintings are autobiographical yet steeped in references to classical paintings, executed with the casual air of an illustrator in his sketchbook.

Metamorphosis within the surreal landscapes of 'Neptune Frost' and 'Strawberry Mansion'

The creators of two recent, enthralling films—Neptune Frost (2022) and Strawberry Mansion (2021)—also call on dreams in their dystopian science fiction, presenting provocative and fluid narratives with dynamic characters, beautiful shots of landscapes, and curious costuming.

Richard Serra’s new installation and a Museum Guard-curated Exhibition at the BMA

Mini reviews of exhibits at the Glenstone Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art

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