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BmoreArt’s Picks: September 6-12

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week:  Penn Eastburn at BSC Cocktail Gallery, Brent Crothers closing at Chesapeake Gallery, SPARK: New Light artist reception at The Peale, Telling Our Story opening at the Driskell Center, Kei Ito opening reception at Gallery in the Sky, EX-tend EX-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay and more!

Visual Art

Art on Speed

To Go Faster at Current Space is a cohesive group exhibition about the impact of our cultural obsession with velocity

A dynamic group show that explores the rapid pace of society, the collective need to move at a brisk speed, and how that affects our surroundings.

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BmoreArt’s Picks: August 30 – September 5

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week:  Joyce J. Scott at Banneker-Douglass Museum, WTMD First Thursday Festival, SHAN Wallace hosts "The Queer Agenda: THE WATERMELON WOMAN" screening at SNF Parkway, The One and the Many opening reception at Baltimore Jewelry Center, The Space Between Us curated by Lily Xiao and more!

Visual Art

Tactile Journeys: Young Blood at MAP and Spark at The Peale

The Peale and Maryland Art Place convene a range of contemporary ideas into vivid and comprehensive group exhibitions

If you are curious about the future of the contemporary art world in Baltimore, our regional MFA and Visual Arts programs are brimming with talented art world contenders, including students, faculty, and alumni.

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BmoreArt’s Picks: August 23-29

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week:  Jill Fannon, Elena Volkova and Saskia Kahn at Connect + Collect, Baltimore Honky Tonk at Waverly Brewing, Bobby Harris in BALTIMORATORY at Peabody Heights, Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom documentary preview at Maryland Center for History and Culture, and more!

Film

They Don’t Make TV Like This Anymore

Chris LaMartina’s 'Out There Halloween Mega Tape' exorcises the politics of nostalgia

A spiritual sequel to 2013's 'WNUF Halloween Special,' 'Out There' is a slight tone change for LaMartina and the dedicated creative team he has nurtured over the years.

Visual Art

Emerald Encounters: Salman Toor at the BMA

The contemporary painter's work holds sorrow and joy, pain and comfort, tears and laughter together in the same space

Toor's paintings are autobiographical yet steeped in references to classical paintings, executed with the casual air of an illustrator in his sketchbook.

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BmoreArt’s Picks: August 16-22

The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This Week:  Unveiling Resistance exhibition continues at The Galleries at CCBC, MAP presents a J.M. Giordano fundraising auction for Baltimore Abortion Fund, Baltimore Old Time & Bluegrass jam at R. House, Station North SIPS, BROS cosplay karaoke at No Land Beyond, and more!

Collecting

History for Sale

Housewerks Salvage at the Chesapeake Gas Company

To list the items that Riddleberger has saved from landfills would take a building as large as the 1885 gas company “valve house” in South Baltimore where he keeps his collection of curios: an architectural salvage business called Housewerks.

Film

A Poet’s Idea of a Dream

Metamorphosis within the surreal landscapes of 'Neptune Frost' and 'Strawberry Mansion'

The creators of two recent, enthralling films—Neptune Frost (2022) and Strawberry Mansion (2021)—also call on dreams in their dystopian science fiction, presenting provocative and fluid narratives with dynamic characters, beautiful shots of landscapes, and curious costuming.

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