Three New Books by Women for Women and Men
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.
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We Got It For Cheap: Senegalese cinema classic ‘Hyenas’
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.
BmoreArt’s Picks: January 14-20
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!
What Can We Keep?
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?
FOLLOWING: @jerrygogosian
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."
News Briefs
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
BmoreArt’s Picks: Baltimore Art Openings, Galleries, and Events January 7-13
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
Art AND: Monica Ikegwu
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.
Silent Retreat
An Interview with Filmmaker Karen Yasinsky
One Night Only, explores the visual languages of silent film stars and stand-up comedians.
Hidden Histories
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.
Nonfiction Gone Ecstatic
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.
Natural Interaction: Christine Neil
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.
Art of the Decade
Best Baltimore Exhibits, Projects, and Experiments 2010-2019
Baltimore’s pool of talent is an ever-expanding universe.
Art AND: Akea Brionne Brown
A Studio Visit with the 2019 23-year-old Sondheim Prize Winner
Brown’s installation and photography work, which asks her audience “to confront race and identity in modern terms,” challenges some viewers to recognize microaggressions they may not have previously considered.
The Best Baltimore Art Exhibitions of 2019
Another good year for Baltimore's visual art scene