An Exhibit of Diverse Objects that Collectively Attest to Deep Continuities and Extensive Cultural Exchanges.
While the Walters has been able to boast of one of the strongest collections of Ethiopian art in the world since the 1990s, the current exhibition offers a meaningful attempt to tell a complex and relational visual history in unprecedentedly detailed ways.
Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs Revisited: A Legacy Unfolds at the Baltimore Museum of Art
A Vast Network of Creative Community is Revealed in the Enigmatic Artistry of Quilter Elizabeth Talford Scott
Amos Badertscher’s Photography Survey at UMBC Captures Baltimore’s Queer Underground from the 1960s to the early 2000s
The images in Lost Boys can feel haunting, due to the deaths of both author and subjects. But in the end, this is a show that generates considerable power from the process of making present.
History Beyond the Keeping of Time
Duffield’s clocks helped to support the Protestant notion that one should always be doing, rather than simply being. And in that sense, he was an early architect of our own 24/7 culture, with its similar emphasis on the value of constant productivity.
A Seductive Rehang Maps a Continent's Diverse Influences
Wondering what lay beyond, say, the borders of the ancient Roman Empire or the reach of colonial France?
In Washington, DC, an ambitious exhibition considers British photography from the turbulent '70s and '80s
A concise but impactful exhibition of photographs from the 1970s and 1980s at the National Gallery of Art, presents a boisterous and iconoclastic photographic culture
“We organized this Biennial to reflect these precarious and improvised times.”
Curated by David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, this show took shape in a period marked by a relentless virus, upsetting political news, horrifying police brutality, and a grinding land war.
'Activating the Renaissance' at the Walters brings contemporary artists into conversation with altarpieces and saints
Flanked by ranks of Quattrocento holy figures, Stephen Towns’ protagonist feels at once at home and strikingly distinct.
The Hirshhorn exhibit offers a fine-grained account of an artistic career that spans more than 70 years
After a two-year, Covid-related delay, One With Eternity, featuring five works by the beloved nonagenarian Yayoi Kusama, is now open at the Hirshhorn.
Soft Water Hard Stone is curated by Margot Norton and Jamillah James
The 2021 New Museum Triennial, Soft Water Hard Stone, the museum's fifth, exhibits works by 40 artists and collectives from around the world including Baltimore's Cynthia Daignault and Kahlil Robert Irving.
A compelling mix of archival and artistic presentations, combining didactic texts with creative installations and works by visual artists
Their first goal was to understand just what has been lost: to reconstruct the contours of the expansive collection.
"Laurie Anderson: The Weather" presents more than fifty works from across a renowned career
Featuring sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, and juxtaposing pieces from across her career with a host of recent works , "The Weather" is a dazzling display of what the art historian RoseLee Goldberg once called Anderson’s “powerful inventive drive.
A rewarding show of rarely seen prints that examines gynophobia in early print culture to the eventual rise of first-wave feminism
This show is richly rewarding, due in large part to a range of rarely seen objects and some truly clever juxtapositions.
A conceptually crisp and sharp critique of American xenophobia and racism
The stock icon has yielded to something darker and more ominous.
Timothy App: States of Mind at Goya Contemporary
In discussing his work, App likes to allude to his lifelong attempt to find what he calls authentic ways of making a painting.
What happens when true believers have to confront scientific facts?
A lively and mostly persuasive argument that the Shroud of Turin is not Jesus Christ's funerary cloth, but was instead likely fabricated by an artist in the 1350s, and then slowly embraced by Catholic officials who saw an opportunity for profit.
On the BMA's reopened sculpture garden and the future of monuments
It’s hard to reconcile my rich memories of the place with what now reads as a limited and parochial landscape.
Even as much of the art world retreated to the safety of the internet, some creative workers continued their trade in the public sphere
We now know that this will be a matter of months, rather than weeks: the Cleveland Museum of Art has already canceled all programming through the end of June, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art expects to remain closed at least through July.
