CDMX Art Week gallery openings just ahead of Zona MACO and Material Art Fairs
Last year, Zona MACO brought in over 62,000 visitors compared to ABMB’s 81,000. Although they’re similar on paper, MACO is a smaller fair in a much larger city—which is really what makes this week feel different.
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!
What do you wear to the Pratt Contemporaries annual Black and White Party?
Whether guests were lions, bears, flying monkeys, or straight-up divas in black and white, this event felt exceptional without being stuffy, lavish but not vulgar.
'Pop' Turns Valerie Solanas' 1968 Shooting of Andy Warhol into an Agatha Christie-ish Whodunnit
The 2009 musical, with book/lyrics by Maggie-Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacobs, is ahistorical, apolitical, amodern, and absolutely entertaining.
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
MICA MFA Candidate, Multidisciplinary Artist, and Spectacle
"Don’t come if you don’t already know what you want to get out of yourself."
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.
Single Carrot Theatre presents Safe Space, Migrations and Meaning(s)at MICA, ICA Baltimore Flat File opening, and more!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Big Funds for Creative Alliance, Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest Submissions Open, 2020 Saul Zaentz Fellows Announced, BCAN Celebrates Local Entrepreneurs.
Photos from the 20th Annual MLK Day Parade in Baltimore
On an extra cold day, Baltimore citizens gathered for the 20th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade
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?
