Anthony's new film about instant replay and tennis is an incredibly subversive 36-minute dérive of a documentary, viewed in ESPN's 30 for 30 series.
This is how one should reckon with sport—an expressive, important, often communal thing that is also big business and ultimately comes down to, well, rules that never entirely make sense.
Tragicomedy seems a fitting genre for a show about witchcraft, for what is more magical than being more than one thing at once?
As Budenz makes clear at the beginning of the show, there has always been some version of a fuckboy, always someone trying to slide into your DMs.
James Bouché on Mormonism, Family History, and Guilt
Family History Center is Bouché’s most explicitly personal show to-date, in part because he is there to guide you through the material.
Chul Hyun Ahn at Grimaldis, Schroeder Cherry at City Hall, Larry Cook at Galerie Myrtis, and more…
Chul Hyun Ahn opening reception at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Schroeder Cherry opening reception at The Gallery at Baltimore City Hall, Larry Cook artist’s talk + closing at Galerie Myrtis, and more.
Fleishman Is in Trouble, Three Women, and Queenie
If there are any men who want to understand the way a woman’s mind and body works, kindly add these three books to your list.
Director Djibril Diop Mambéty's classic is screening for free at the Parkway
Baltimoreans in particular might find something familiar in the film Hyenas, where of a town rendered poor by outside forces falls susceptible to corruption.
The Best Weekly Art Openings, Events, and Performances in Baltimore and surrounding areas
This week: Amalie R. Rothschild: Rock Icons and Images reception at Goya Contemporary, Reading and Discussion with Kondwani Fidel at the Walters, Black Femme Supremacy Film Festival Taste Test 2020 at Eaton DC, MLK Day events, and more!
How can we expand notions of scholarship, and facilitate an intimacy with history generated by and for Black people?
What new connections might emerge by inviting thinkers and makers with diverse educational backgrounds and practices into the archives?
Memes, Art World Gossip, Tough Love, and Predictions for the New Year
@jerrygogosian: "You can still be an artist and find a way to support yourself without academia, grants, or gallery sales, and frankly, the bigger “world” needs the influence of artistic thinkers the most."
Bromo Arts District's New Director, a VP at Deutsch Foundation, new BMA curators, and more
Emily Breiter becomes Bromo Arts District director, Jessica Solomon named VP at Deutsch Foundation, BMA expands contemporary curatorial department, and more
Shinique Smith at the BMA, We Are One: Ernest Shaw, Jerry Prettyman, Monica Ikegwu, Latoya Hobbs, Mark Fleuridor at Creative Alliance, Joan Cox at Catalyst Contemporary, and Winter Workshop Show at Ink Spot Press.
An Artist's Evolution: Shinique Smith in Conversation with Cara Ober at the Pratt, Renovations opens at Carroll Mansion, Breathing Room: Bound and Loose performance by Shinique Smith at the BMA, We Are One: Ernest Shaw, Jerry Prettyman, Monica Ikegwu, Latoya Hobbs, Mark Fleuridor gallery talk at Cre
The artist discusses her career so far, doing her sisters’ hair, and the contemporary figure painters who inspire her.
Painter Monica Ikegwu’s goal is to take “ordinary people and make them into art in the ordinary clothes that they're wearing.
An Interview with Filmmaker Karen Yasinsky
One Night Only, explores the visual languages of silent film stars and stand-up comedians.
The I. Henry Photo Project
Webster’s grandfather, I. Henry Phillips, was a photographer at the Afro-American newspaper. His father, Irving, also worked for the Afro, and traveled around the South with Martin Luther King Jr., documenting his speeches for the paper.
The year in Baltimore movies
Not documentary exactly (though a few fit that category) but works where reality sneaks up and disrupts form and storytelling in unpredictable and expressionistic ways.
An Interview with Watercolorist and former MICA Professor Christine Neill
The artist talks about the impact climate change has had during her lifetime, what it was like to be one of the few mothers at MICA in the 1980s, and her beliefs about an artist’s role in educating the public.
