The Author of "My Father's Work Shed" Discusses Family, Irish Households, and Other Inspirations
One experiences Bart O’Reilly’s paintings and poems with all the senses. There are familiar scents, visceral textures begging to be traced by curious fingertips, and passages that seem to be whispering, “I deserve to be heard aloud.”
ABMB Just Started the Countdown to its 21st Birthday, but the Champagne Has Long Been (Over)flowing
Last week, Art Basel Miami Beach turned twenty. It’s hard to overstate how extremely the once-unlikely Floridian spinoff of the highbrow Swiss art fair has transformed both the global art market and its host city.
Memento Mori at The Parlor, Figure / Narrative at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Manifest Presence at Catalyst
Three Succinct Reviews including a group show about death in a former funeral home, as well as figurative narrative paintings from established masters Grace Hartigan and Raoul Middleman and a new generation of painters in Baltimore
A new exhibit of recent Baker awardees features work by Laura Amussen, David Page, Ernest Shaw Jr., Susan Waters-Eller, and Pamela Woolford
Baltimore, Addressed features five recent Baker awardees who respond to the past, present, and imagined future of the city and is curated by Brittany Luberda, BMA Anne Stone Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts
A Sneak Peak at the Transgressive Artist and Collector’s Bequest to the BMA
John Waters wants us to rethink the ludicrous possibility of a masterpiece
Saskia Kahn captures experimental fashion show Fantasy Machine
Current Space's epic experimental fashion show Fantasy Machine returned last Saturday for its sold-out fourth edition. Thankfully, photographer Saskia Kahn staked out a spot beside the runway and captured it all.
Baltimore Spirits Company names Penn Eastburn as the first recipient of its LAB award
There’s a long, storied history of art students supporting the booze industry. Now, a local distillery is giving back to the MICA community in a big way. This year, the Baltimore Spirits Company announced Penn Eastburn, a recent painting MFA grad, as the first recipient of its $10,000 LAB Award.
Step right up and beat your hope to death at the world's most depressing art show!
Curated by Kader Attia and titled Still Here!, this year’s edition mulls the lasting impacts of colonialism, modernity, globalization, and ecological exploitation and collapse—as well as dozens of tangentially related ills.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to partner with Pussy Riot this year.”
"WHEN EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL, NOTHING IS / WHEN NOTHING IS POLITICAL, EVERYTHING IS"
Campy horror aesthetics, charmingly faux-naive techniques, abstract allusions to the body, environmental concerns and more
With 82 galleries representing 37 countries, the surprisingly compact fair is dense with content.
This Saturday, Muse 360 is throwing a fundraising celebration at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center as the arts education nonprofit searches for a new home
Since 2005, Muse 360 has called the Howard Street cultural center home, but now faces the all-too-familiar challenge of finding another affordable space to host dance classes, meetings, and other events.
Proceeds benefit the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund, which gives cultural workers emergency financial aid
This concrete gesture of solidarity is Elena Volkova’s way of “trying to turn grief into something productive,” she says. “Better than being curled-up crying on the floor.”
An interview with the star of ‘Adventures in Success’
it’s not much of a challenge for Baltimore artist Lexie Mountain’s character Pegasus “Peggy” Appleyard, the ambiguously-intentioned sex cult leader, to take charge of her flock.
Featuring the central fair Zona MACO, a collaborative show organized by galleries called Arthouse Project, and the artist-centric crowdpleaser Salón ACME
I sometimes think that CDMX is Baltimore's bigger, cooler, distant cousin.
How the painter incorporates AI, apps, and IG into her practice
"[Painters are] constantly trying to find new ways of presenting these symbols for the eye to interpret, but also let them become their own thing. But then this AI comes along, and look! It can just do it in a few seconds!"
Trends and Sightings at The Big Fair Miami Beach
While it’s exciting to see works of art by well known favorites at Art Basel, it's a treat to discover new artists and galleries and this year’s big fair provided a slew of new names and programs to follow.
Dispatches from Untitled Art Fair and NADA at Miami Art Week 2021
The term horror vacui, or “fear of the vacuum,” remained stuck in my head… could this new maximalism be a reflection of the claustrophobia of lockdown life and fear of loss?
Three Baltimore exhibitions worth a visit this week
Bill Schmidt and Jan Razauskas’ Spatial Fabrications at MONO Practice, Color and Illusion: The Still Lifes of Juan Gris at the BMA, and Rania Matar’s She at C. Grimaldis Gallery.
