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Ten Contemporary Artists Revising History in Baltimore

Amber Eve Anderson, Lance Bankerd, Se Jong Cho, Ami Dang, Taha Heydari, Eze Jackson, Leslie King-Hammond, Amanda McCormick, Deyane Moses, and Ernest Shaw

For visual artists, curators, performers, composers, and publishers, the purposeful creation of new archives, as well as the respectful transformation of past collections, is a common threat that unifies us on a quest to tell new stories and to diversity existing archives.

Visual Art

Leap of Faith: Delita Martin’s Calling Down The Spirits at NMWA

Martin's mixed media works present the strength of spiritual ancestors and place questions about beauty and race into daily consciousness

Walking through Delita Martin's solo exhibition, Calling Down The Spirits, felt like I was flipping through my grandmother’s photo albums, seeing intimate details of people that I could never know: a turn of the neck, an upward cast of an eye.

News & Opinion

BmoreArt’s Picks: February 18-24

BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

BmoreArt's Picks: February 18-24: Bishme Cromartie at Maryland Historical Society, Submersive Productions See Also at the Peabody Library, Merkin Dream opens at MAP, Beyond the Flash: A Conversation with Lola Flash at MICA, and more!

News & Opinion

BmoreArt’s Picks: February 11-17

BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

BmoreArt's Picks: February 11-17:Grey Matter: A Response to Blackness at AACC Cade Gallery, It Means Desert, Desert A Solo Exhibition by Jackie Milad at Julio Fine Arts, The Black Vote Mural Project at Banneker-Douglass Museum, and Painted Pidgin at St. Charles

Media & Literature

Access to Books is Power

Heidi Daniel and the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Libraries as places of possibility regardless of social class enabled Daniel to experience a larger world outside the one she lived in and imagine a variety of prospects that life might hold for her. That capacity drives her vision for the Pratt.

Film

Beautiful, Bold, Psychedelic: Aiwan Obinyan’s Wax Print

The deeply personal educational documentary explores the origins of an African fabric.

Obinyan ostensibly frames Wax Print around asking the question, “Is wax print African?” It’s a question that is both impossible to answer and has a pretty obvious answer: Yes. You have likely seen wax print and, just as likely, somebody ripping off its style.

Visual Art

Mexico City Art Week: Day Two

What's up in the capital's best galleries within walking distance of each other in Roma Norte

Enjoy Mexico City’s real weirdness while it lasts, and as a visitor, be careful not to buy into the theme-park-ification befalling nearly every global destination.

News & Opinion

BmoreArt’s Picks: February 4-10

BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

BmoreArt's Picks: February 4-10: Rapid Lemon Productions' Give Me Moonlight, Iron Crow Theatre's Rocky Horror - Valentine's Edition, Rendition by Zoë Charlton at Union Market DC, Creative Alliance Resident Artist Talks, and more!

Bmore Art