Neverending Story: The Power of Pattern
Six Artists Achieve an Intricate Buzz in 'Surfacing' at MONO Practice
What if the observation, repetition, and cultivation of pleasure found in ornamentation were central to human existence?
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Getting Even: Remake of ‘The Invisible Man’ Delivers Thrills, Seriously Thinks About Trauma
A less cloying way for “mainstream” movies to ponder #MeToo, an encouraging trend in Hollywood movies
FOLLOWING: @thenannyart
Uncanny Resemblances Between Art and Fran Drescher’s Wardrobe from Campy ‘90s Sitcom 'The Nanny'
Welcome to FOLLOWING, a new series of profiles and interviews of the art world social media accounts that make us think, laugh, cry, love, or sometimes just “like.”
‘Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art’ Centers Hope, Humor, and Ritual
The exhibition, curated by Dr. Deborah Willis, features 35 artists working in photography, installation, and time-based media
The exhibition centers hope, humor, and ritual as humanizing strategies to investigate and negotiate the impacts of migration.
BmoreArt’s Picks: March 3-9
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
BmoreArt's Picks: May 3-9 | This Week: 2020 Scholastic Art Exhibition at School 33, The Cliff Banquet presents Collective Dreaming at MICA BBOX, Helen Zughaib: Unfinished Journeys at Creative Alliance, and more!
The Pleasant Sonic Density of Dora Malech’s ‘Flourish’
There is something in this collection for everyone—the personal, the political, the intimate, the strange, and humorous
In Flourish, Malech's poems rarely alight anywhere near where they begin—often introducing unexpected themes into the fray.
Céline Sciamma’s subdued and devastating melodrama Portrait of a Lady on Fire
A sleepy spy movie that turns into a slow-burn romance and then a tragic catharsis
What looks like a staid costume drama is more like if Chantal Ackerman got ahold of a Merchant-Ivory movie.
Art AND: Angela N. Carroll
For Carroll—a regular contributor to BmoreArt—contemporary writing about Black artists has to move past tokenism
"The canon has purposely left out certain creatives and we’re trying to rectify that. Let’s not see this moment as a trend."
‘Designs for Different Futures’ Glimpses Our Earthly Precarity
Designs for Different Futures, the special exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, considers a range of changes to come
What choices do we have now and what future will we end up with?
BmoreArt’s Picks: February 25 – March 2
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
BmoreArt's Picks: February 25 - March 2. This Week: “Being an Immigrant Artist in the Age of Trump” panel at MICA, Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico at National Museum of Women in the Arts, SHAN Wallace: 410 at Baltimore Museum of Art, and more!
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.
Sins of the Father: Single Carrot’s ‘Safe Space’
Hyper-local Ghost Story Explores History's Tensions with the Present
Who are these people? What is their relationship? Why is it so damn awkward? It's an engaging hook for the audience that fits nicely with the farcical Clue-inspired supernatural whodunnit that follows in the second half of the one-act play.
News Briefs: Sondheim Semifinalists, Black Arts District’s Plans, WPA Funding for DIY in DC
Baltimore Art News Stories
News Briefs are a compilation of art news around the Baltimore region.
Beyond “Blaxploitation”: A Few Oft-ignored Black Working-Class Microdramas of the ’70s
A selection of small, working-class movies often forgotten for more serious fare when it comes time to think about Black History
Cotton Comes To Harlem, The Monkey Hustle, and Amazing Grace
Acme Corporation’s ‘The First Thing That Happens’ Explores the Limits of Language
Lola Pierson's opera, with music by Horse Lords, finds humor in incomprehension
Lola Pierson, who wrote the text and directed the show, frequently had the audience laughing—often at the very confusion that opera (and language) might perpetuate.
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.
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!
Skin, Saint, Aura: The St. Francis Missal
A remarkable depth is on clear display in this small but potent exhibition at The Walters
You don’t have to be a connoisseur or a Catholic to enjoy this medieval relic.