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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!

Film

Back to the Future: Downtown 81 and Cunningham

Semi-fictional new wave movie ambles around with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Merce Cunningham's challenging choreography—in 3D!

Downtown 81, a somewhat fictional, hang-out movie starring Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alla Kovgan's assiduous documentary, Cunningham, screening in Baltimore

Visual Art

This Art Kills Fascists

Elizabeth Catlett: Artist as Activist at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum

Field workers, sharecroppers, mothers, grandmothers (and occasionally fathers too) share space in her oeuvre with abolitionists and civil rights icons, everyone with dirt under their fingernails, everyone in all of their ordinary glory.

Bmore Art