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"I get angry at the Identity-Industrial-Art-Market-Complex forcing artists who could be free of that to just fucking make art!"
This week's news includes: Artscape 2025 reviews are in, Kimi Yoshino leaves Baltimore for Washington, The Driskell Center aquires a Megan Lewis painting, John Waters brings in the crowds, Good Contrivance Farm writer's retreat, Baltimore's first annual Puerto Rican weekend celebration, and more!
"She was very humble and did not want to put herself above the artists she worked hard for. I think reading these tributes she would be partially embarrassed at being celebrated but also touched to know the work she did mattered."
This Week: CLLCTIVLY presents We Give Black, VisArts May Opening Celebration, The Lost Weekend at Greedy Reads, The IN Series: ETHIOPIA at Baltimore Theatre Project, Vagabond Players' PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE, Earl Arnett book launch and jazz performance at An Die Musik, and more!
What does Baltimore investing intentionally in itself look like?
Artscape's New Downtown Footprint in Photos: Artisan Market, Food Lab, New Murals, Concert Stages, Performances, and Sondheim Semi-Finalists at The Peale
It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.
This week's news includes: Artscape updates, Trans Visibility quilt displayed on the Mall, Preakness past and present in photos, Joyce J. Scott receives honorary doctorate from UB, John Waters weighs in on Carly Hayden's firing and how to (mis)behave at his book signings, Guns of Steel, and more!
Future Ghost, a Queer performance collective that is the brainchild of Lyam B. Gabel and Joseph Amodei, created the production out of a desire to bring light to not just the disease, but to the people who experienced and lived through this uniquely disastrous phenomenon.
In Issue 19, we celebrate Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.
This Week: UMBC Senior Thesis opening reception, closing reception for Jonna McKone and Elena Volkva at Connect + Collect, Cathy Cook Film Retrospective at Current Space, John Waters book signing at Atomic Books, opening reception for Piper Shepard at Academy Art Museum, and more!
Baltimore itself is a hidden gem. Sure, it has flaws, but for anyone who dares, it offers up sparkling and surprising opportunities that wildly exceed expectations.
Camouflage renders beauty and material repurposing from the catastrophes of environmental degradation. The beauty here is not empty or slight, but deeply ethical, a slow product of intense labor and years of study and gestation.
In 2022, Meaghan and Shane Carpenter opened Hex Superette in the front of their manufacturing facility on York Road. The sun-drenched dining room overlooks the grocery store.
This week's news includes: Honorary MICA degrees for Christopher Myers and George Ciscle, Baltimore turns up for Turnstile, reactions to Dr. Carla Hayden's firing, coleman a. jordan | ebo at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennial, the lasting legacy of Black Cherry Puppet Theater, and more!