BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Teresita Fernández and Dolores Zinny in conversation at MICA, Tahira Chloe Mahdi talk at UMBC, opening reception and curator talk with Dr. Bibhakar Sunder Shakya at TU Center for Asian Art + Culture, TU Faculty Biennial and MFA Candidate Exhibitions, MICA Bicentennial Exhibition, and more
Portraiture by Two Black Women Artists Calls for a Truer Look at History
Tokyo-born, Maryland-based artist Tawny Chatmon and DC native Rozeal. (yes, there is a period at the end of her name) are featured in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and nearby National Gallery of Art, respectively.
What defines a great exhibition and how do they generate collective energy and wisdom?
If great exhibitions are the currency of museums, which ones in Baltimore are offering audiences rich and substantive investments?
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Brandon Weinbrenner named Artistic Director at Everyman Theatre, three Baltimore artists featured in NPG exhibition, Joyce J. Scott honored by BCPSS, Amy Sherald exhibition breaks records at BMA, Sinners' hairstylist Tené Wilder nominate for multiple awards, and more!
Pop Nostalgia and Melancholy Technicolor Criticality Collide with the American Fever Dream
Da Corte has several ambitious mixed-media installations presently on view at Glenstone—injecting an unexpected bit of kitschy neon suburban dystopia into the bucolic institution's minimalist halls. It's a show worth the pilgrimage.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Our Being is Being in Time at CCCC, Sweaty Eyeballs ANIMATION MIXTAPE at SNF Parkway, Rooted/Growing reception at MICA, absolute alternatives opening reception at UMBC CADVC, opening reception for Margaret Jacobs at BJC, David Page and Sara Dittrich opening reception at Red Giant, and more!
This year's Ornamenta theme is "Ruby," so all things RED will be trending!
The annual Baltimore Jewelry Center Gala Event on Feb. 7 offers dinner, drinks, dancing - and a jewelry auction featuring incredible wearable art.
The Poet's Newest Collection Is a Triumphant (and Heartbreaking) Ode to Not Giving Up
As with all of the author’s finest work, meaning often is not explicit, but instead buried within sonic language like a treasure to discover.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore is home to multiple James Beard Semifinalists, Rhea L. Combs and Ellen McBreen announces as BMA Curatorial Fellows, Ami Dang becomes Director of Development at The Lyric, Smithsonian shakeup, more cancellations at the Kennedy Center, Glenstone Museum's 2026 message, and more!
Building on Momentum, the 5th Production in Baltimore's August Wilson Century Cycle Celebration Draws Full Houses
Seven Guitars, on stage at Spotlighters Theatre through February 1st, centers on Floyd “Schoolboy” Barton, a talented blues guitarist whose life has ended just as it seemed poised to finally take flight.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Savannah Wood + Teri Henderson in conversation with Siân Evans at Peabody Library, MICA's Bicentenial Opening Celebration, closing event for A Lake in a Desert at MICA Brown Center, ARTificial opening reception at MAP, abdu mongo ali performance at the BMA, and more!
As the Museum's Inaugural Composer in Residence, the Multidisciplinary Artist Embraces Chaos, Curiosity, and the Radical Possibilities of Sound
abdu mongo ali’s residency at the Baltimore Museum of Art began in September, 2025 and will culminate on Thursday, January 22, 2026 with a performance of "between every breath, there is atmosphere" in the BMA’s Meyerhoff Auditorium.
Squishy, Political, and Visceral Textile Works at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery
"Soft Flesh and Volatile Insides" upends expectations in Goucher College’s Silber Gallery. This group exhibition—including works by Monique Crabb, Charlotte Richardson-Deppe, Ash Garner, and Stephanie J. Williams—utilizes textile as a core material and its softness becomes a vehicle for tension.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week’s news includes: Stephanie Mills and The Roots will come alive at Artscape 2026, RWDF announces new structure for Rubys, Washington Opera leaving Kennedy Center, new Maryland Opera initiative, Turner Station celebrated in new CCBC exhibition, Temi Wynston Edun opens, and more.
Between Kitsch and Crisis: Baltimore’s Unsung Middle Ground in Color at the Peale Museum
The Peale Museum will host a reception for Joseph Mario Giordano's "The Secret City: New Works in Color Film" Friday, January 16, 6–8 p.m.
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Opening reception for Ken Friedman at m/ (Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum), opening reception for Beth Yashnyk at Julio Fine Arts, panel discussion with Myrtis Bedolla at Aspen Institute, opening reception for Julia Kim Smith at Waller Gallery, curator's talk for Dara Lorenzo, and more!
Famed Bakery and Café Draws Crowds to New Location in Remington
“This space gives us room to grow our team, to train people the right way,” co-owner Charles Lee says. “It also allowed us to create a more chill environment [for our customers].”
"The Hour Of The Dog" and the Politics of Enmity at the BMA
If official security doctrine dreams of a purified nation, sealed against contamination, "The Hour of the Dog" insists on mixture, residue, and relation. It asks us to remain in the twilight—to resist the comfort of absolutes, to listen again, and differently, to voices that refuse to fade.
