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.
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, 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 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!
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.
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.
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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
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.
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 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!
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.
At Hamilton Gallery, meditative psychedelic soul-searching with an Xbox controller
If 1917, a video game, is a movie, then Oldenburg's video games, sitting in the back room of the Hamilton Gallery, are movies.
The view from Latin America's largest art fair
Unlike Basel, where you know the names of every single artist and gallery, at Maco there was so much space for discovery.
Tiffany Jones talks community art, motherhood, and the honesty of Baltimore's art scene
"I feel like the city wouldn't be what it is without its artists or creative people."
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
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.
Mexico City's Artist-Centric Art Fair
Material is a young art fair but is now all grown up, both figuratively and literally.
