The Seasonal Party That's So Much Fun it Should Convince You to Join the Art Space Even if You Hate Art
Last Saturday, the most recent Members Party featured live projections by Tony Rutka and beats from DJ Paul Campion. I am kicking myself for being out of town last week, but thankfully digital and film photographer Oliver Maddox captured the fun and sent some photos our way to stoke my FOMO.
As Rubys Artist Grant Applications Open, New Alumni Initiatives Announced
Moorhead has been selected from a pool of more than 170 past Ruby grantees to receive a fully-funded residency and material stipend through a new partnership with Art Omi in the Hudson Valley.
Highlights, Zeitgeists, and Weirdness (Including Shows You Can Still See)
There is no other “must-see” event on the ever-more-esoteric Aztec calendar of art world “can’t miss” events that fills me with as much eager anticipation and simultaneous existential dread. But the art here makes it all worth it.
Art Fairs, Openings, Performances, and Travel Advice from an Almost-Chilango
This year, I’m sharing my art week event picks—based on expertise gleaned spending the better part of the past decade always searching for some elusive superlative in the capital of extremes.
A Pop-up Queer Cabaret and Art Space Breathes New Life into Storied North Avenue Market Locale
What happens when you give a group comprising drag queens, vintage furniture enthusiasts, theater kids, and a mixologist free reign over a vacant storefront for six weeks? Find out this weekend at the closing of "Bad Casting and Other Questionable Decisions: Paintings by Alix Tobey Southwick."
Michael Anthony Farley and Lexie Mountain Get Art School Confidential on the Intermedia and Digital Arts Program
When UMBC reached out to BmoreArt to help spread the word about the program, I thought immediately about Lexie and our decision to apply together years ago. The current round of applications for IMDA close on February 1st, and I thought it would be useful for potential candidates to hear our stories
Jackie Milad and Marnie Ellen Hertzler Receive Prestigious National Grant
Filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler and mixed-media artist Jackie Milad have each received an unrestricted $50,000 for projects through the 2024 “Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact” granting initiative.
Graham Projects Imagines More Joyous Streets
There’s a chance one of Graham Coreil-Allen’s artworks has saved your life. Coreil-Allen’s collaborative “painting” practice—colorfully cascading across sidewalks, asphalt, and other infrastructure—is as much about the objective probability of preventing deaths as subjective aesthetics.
Picks, Trends, and Observations from Fairs, Galleries, and the Rubell Museum (Including a Theory as to why Everything is Suddenly Periwinkle)
Is this a good year for galleries? That depends on who you ask. At the main fair, booths with challenging or innovative artworks are about as common as faces with intact buccal fat—they're few and far between and take some effort to spot.
The New Museu de l’Art Prohibit in Barcelona is a Refuge for Censored Artworks
The Museu de l’Art Prohibit is, according to its founders, the first of its kind: a museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, and display of art that has been censored (in one way or another) elsewhere. Its contents are equal-opportunity offenders—having already outraged every religion.
BmoreArt’s Autumn Arts List of Exhibits in Galleries, Museums, and Independent Art Spaces
While a Mid-Atlantic November is anything but meteorologically predictable, the BmoreArt team has assembled a fall arts forecast that’s full of sure bets.
Highlights from the Fair, and Why We Should be Taking Notes
I so wish more art spaces from the Baltimore/DC region participated in smart, well-curated smaller fairs like this—putting local artists in dialogue with international peers and in front of international audiences and kingmakers.
Run by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, a new Baltimore art space offers artists and creatives chances to collaborate with scientists, policy-makers, and activists
With six studio spaces, an exhibition and event space, workshops, a library, and generous common areas, the Crow's Nest will foster “a diverse creative community whose members can inspire one another, collaborate, experiment, and cross-pollinate ideas."
A Day-Long Celebration of Art, Drag, Music, and More Launches at Area 405 on Thursday, June 22
Queer-Scape will kick off Pride weekend tomorrow, Thursday June 22, at Area 405, with a multimedia evening of visual art, drag, burlesque, music, and a makers market with wares from local LGBTQ+ owned business
The Baltimore-based Artist Will Guide the NY-based National Organization in its Next Chapter Supporting Socially Engaged Arts and Artists
Zhang is planning on staying here, and splitting her time between Baltimore and New York
Frieze's Move to Hudson Yards isn't Just a Faux Pas—It's Lending Cultural Cachet to the Right Wing
Who is behind this genius work of boundary-busting relational aesthetics? That would be Related Companies, a real estate behemoth that controls a staggering $60 billion worth of property and was founded by former tax attorney Stephen Ross, a friend and fundraiser to Donald Trump.
How the Neighborhood Design Center is Helping Baltimore’s Creatives Revive a Climate-Conscious City
“If you look at adaptive reuse projects, at least half of the building you need is already there,” Karla Brent says. “The energy that was needed to build that was used years ago,” whereas new building projects require production and shipment processes that create pollution and consume raw materials.
Collaboration Between Institutional, DIY, Public, and Private Art Entities Makes for a Great Art Week
Madrid's flagship fair ARCO—as well as its satellites JUSTMAD, Art Madrid, UVNT, and Hybrid—seem to have firmly cemented their place on the circuit, even if competitors in North America sometimes get more attention.
