Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week: John Waters' guide to Baltimore, filmmaker Nia Hampton interviewed by Rob Lee, Little Feat's Baltimore connection, Trans Pride Day photo essay, criticisms of Baltimore Pride, The Coral Wig gets national attention, Ellyn Weiss and Sondra Arkin, and more!
New Mural Project Slated to be One of the Longest Artworks in Baltimore
Hamidi's 500-foot mural will stretch along both walls of the Maryland Avenue bridge between Lanvale and Oliver Streets midtown.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Remembering the Multiplicity and Influence of Early Twentieth Century Cultural Trailblazers
Brilliant Exiles comprises nearly eighty artworks depicting sixty American cultural influencers who went to Paris on the eve of World War II.
A Subway Mosaic that Moves Viewers, and Two Public Art Tragedies from a Baltimore Treasure
This month, Kathy O'Dell takes readers on a ride through, above, below, and behind Pat Alexander's beloved "Geometro" mosaic in the Lexington Market Metro station. Plus, the sad stories of two Alexander works that Baltimoreans can no longer enjoy.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
This week: Katie Pumphrey's Historic Swim, CJay Philip Wins a Tony, Leslie King Hammond at JHU, Baltimore Emmy Award Winners Galore, MSAC Announces $734,282 for Public Art, Antiques Roadshow at the MD Zoo, and more!
A Conversation with the Senior Advisor of Arts and Culture to the Mayor
A conversation with Miller Hall offers a balcony view into Baltimore City’s art ecosystem.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: TU + MAP closing reception for Invisible Architectures \ Social Contracts; Dierra Jones resident artist talk at Baltimore Jewelry Center; Kelly Walker opening reception at Lord Baltimore; the Banneker-Douglass Museum hosts a virtual conversation with Angela Carroll, Deyane Moses, and more
Over the Course of Two Days this June, Volkova Created Collaborative Tintype Portraits with the City's LGBTQ Community
Shot over the course of two days at Current Space earlier this month, Volkova’s black and white tintype portraits of the LGBTQ community offer a dignified, complex document of the city’s queer scene.
A Review of Iron Crow Theatre’s Production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, running through June 30
Perfect for Pride Month, Baltimore’s Premier Queer Theater Manifests a Much Needed Feel-Good Musical About a Boy Who Dreams to be a Drag Queen
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore's Queen, Juneteenth, Soon Come Exhibit, People of Pride, Pardons for Cannabis Convictions, Broadway & Beyond at Everyman, New Lexington Market Murals, and more from regional and independent news sources.
A New Group Exhibition from Curator Fabiola R. Delgado Looks Beyond the Numbers on Migration
The ten artists on view in Between, Through, Across represent a diverse, intergenerational, multicultural group of creators with unique backgrounds, styles, and visions—each of whom have their own personal take on the subject of migration.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: America’s Voices Against Apartheid at City Hall through August, MICA Grad Show IV -Studio Art reception, Soon Come group exhibition reception at 360 House, Mary Hallam Pearse artist talk at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Tae Hwang in conversation with Shae McCoy at Top of the World, and more!
June and July Exhibitions in the Baltimore Region that Experiment, Collaborate, and Defy Expectations
Megan Lewis at Galerie Myrtis, Fragment(ed)ing at Zo Gallery, Transmission at School 33 Art Center, Nick Wisniewski at Swann House, Here in this Little Bay at the Kreeger Museum, Reflect & Remix at The Walters, and Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum at the BMA
An exhibit where theories pale in the bright light of unabashed enthusiasm.
Reflex & Remix at the Walters emphasizes the importance of artistic connections across genres and time.
Dinos Chapman and Jason Yates Two-Person Show at von ammon co. is a Grotesque Dirge for Consumer Kitsch
The eerie convergence of fantasy and reality in Too Little Too Late, which closes Sunday, June 16th, offers a darkly humorous framework within which to dissect American culture and its apparent decline.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
D. Watkins awarded James Beard Media Award, 10 DC exhibitions, Bailey Anne Kennedy first trans woman to win Miss Maryland, Easton Chef Harley Peet wins a James Beard award, Sheila E. and the Original Wailers headline Artscape, AFRO profiles Rachel D. Graham, and more.
A Design-Based Campaign Makes Brazil’s Current Environmental Crisis Visible and Poignant
Água até Aqui @aguaateaqui (High Water Mark) is an initiative that aims to be a visual alert for the extreme consequences of the climate crisis currently in south Brazil but applicable everywhere.