The Best Shows, Parties, and Tips to Make the Most of Art Week
Let's highlight satellite events and the locals on the front lines of the culture wars who’ve always given the global artworld a hearty bienvenida. Here are my picks for a week jam-packed with the best of Miami flavor, helpful travel tips, and suggestions in Magic City's art scene.
An Event Designed to Honor the Sherman Family, Wangetchi Mutu, and Amy Sherald
Photos from the BMA's Annual Gala Celebration and After Party
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
John Edmonds lecture at MICA, DC Native American Heritage Day at National Museum of the American Indian, Bazaart at AVAM, Body and Soul Holiday Sale at Motor House, Mill Centre Holiday Open Studios, Submersive Productions You are Here Gala at Creative Alliance, and Deceived opens at Everyman Theatre
I Went Back to My Alma Mater to Spend a Day With Current TU Student, Annie Tamini
Second year MFA candidate Annie Tamini met me in her fourth-floor studio—a prime corner spot with a window. We spoke about her reasons for attending Towson, and how her experience in the MFA program is so far unfolding.
Four New Mayoral Portraits Allow Artists to Create Historic Narratives for the Future
While Baltimore's legacy of recent mayoral leadership is still in the making, these portraits offer concrete examples of the power of portraiture
An Exhibit and Auction at C+C Gallery Celebrating 10 Years and 20 Issues
Exhibition Round-Up: C. Grimaldis Gallery Shuts its Doors this Saturday, But There's Plenty of Art to See Elsewhere Before Last Call
From Club Car to the Mount Royal Tavern, bars are filling in the void left by gallery closures, as Current Space proves galleries can be great bars too.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
abdu mongo ali named inaugural Alice and Franklin Cooley Composer in Residence at the BMA, Derrick Adams stays local, Turnstile Grammy nominations, Wickerham & Lomax's Soft Gym at the YNot Lot, Theaster Gates to speak at Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Alma Thomas, The Phillips
Milad Discusses What Inspired "Shabtis Gather" and Her Partnership with BmoreArt on the New, 200-Page Publication
"When thinking about the medium of a book, it can be very intimate. One person, or a couple of people, can experience it at a time. The physicality was really important to me, because I wanted people to have that kind of direct, tactile experience."
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: BLIFTD ART STVDIOS one year anniversary celebration, MAP Under $2500 benefit + auction, BMA Ball + After Party, AVAM's 30th Birthday Bash, Fall of Freedom talks at Connect+Collect, and and Daoure Diongue + J.M. Giordano film/performance at 2640 Space
Where Hospitality Meets "Farmer's Bar"
Tucked into the former Joe Benny’s space in Little Italy, Sisu Bar & Bottles has quickly become one of Baltimore’s most beloved new watering holes.
National Gallery of Art Exhibits Works Spanning 1955-1985
Photography and the Black Arts Movement gathers the many threads that makeup the Black experience: joy and struggle, beauty and violence, individuality and collective identity, personal expression and social conscience, creativity and political action.
Ikhide's "Tales From Future Past" is on View through November 22 at CPM
CPM Gallery recently announced that the run of Richard Ayodeji Ikhide's solo exhibition "Tales from Future Past" would be extended to November 22 by appointment. At the opening on September 27, the British-Nigerian artist was interviewed by luminary art historian, curator, and educator Lowery Sims.
The Definitive Design Textbook's Seventh Edition Diversifies the Canon
The idea of a master narrative and the Eurocentric bias of earlier editions of this text have been pressured, and forced to make room for multiplicity and inclusivity. The history of graphic design appears here fresher, livelier, and more relevant.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Soft Gym celebration at the new YNot Lot, screening of "Without Arrows" at The Walters, artist talk with Jaz Erenberg at Loyola University of Maryland, Baltimore Clayworks Winterfest, Rooted in Joy reception at Coppin's Cary Beth Cryor Art Gallery, Arts for Learning celebration, and more!
Protest, Identity, and Humor Converge at Pubic Wig Fashion Show
Merkin Dream III expanded on themes of women’s rights, sex work, body image, and dysphoria through bold design, movement, and performance.
In "Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory" Divinagracia Explores Immigration and Identity at Creative Alliance
"One of my biggest intentions with this show was to really spotlight Filipino presence in Baltimore and specifically immigrant lives and journeys.”
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Amy Sherald shines brightly in Baltimore, Hilton Carter makes his house a home, Inviting Light returns with a Wickerham & Lomax, John Akomfrah moving image + sound installation opens at the BMA, mayorial portraits unveiled at City Hall, Maryland Film Fest is here, and more
