Union organizers accuse BMA Director Chris Bedford of privately stalling election while publicly championing security guards through a new exhibition
On Tuesday, March 22, a group of seven workers who are part of the ongoing effort to unionize the Baltimore Museum of Art held signs with slogans such as “1 Voice, 1 Union” and “No More Delays”; one sign had “Guarding the Art” changed to “Guarding the Guards.”
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Raoul Middleman's studio transformed into a museum, State senate passes Trans Health Equity Act, Hilton Carter is a good plant neighbor, and more reporting from Hyperallergic, The AFRO, WYPR, and other local and independent news sources.
The 13th annual Architecture and Design Film Festival returns to DC
"Design and filmmaking are both storytelling,” Bergman says. “When you design something, you're telling a story, [as much as] when you're making a film."
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stoop Storytelling talks the Baltimore music scene at Ottobar, Resplendent opens at Mehari Sequar Gallery with curator Teri Henderson, The Peale presents a panel discussion for The Guardians, Myrtis Bedolla in conversation with painter Alfred Conteh, and more!
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.
Amateurs and professionals, ages 4-81, compete in the athletic world of dancesport
In the 1990s, ballroom dance organizations adopted the term Dancesport in a global effort to be a part of the Olympic games.
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Madeline Stratton's exhibition at Hamiltonian, the curtain comes up at the Hippodrome, Majolica Mania at The Walters, Maryland's fiscal surplus, the Museum J.E.D.I. podcast, and more reporting from Real News Network, Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Brew, and Real News Network.
In 'Don’t put it back like it was,’ Larner explores creative destruction and transformation through materials such as mold, hair, and stainless steel
The first object I meet immediately implicates me in a process of dismantling.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Jeanne Keck, Scott Newcomb, and Tim McFadden at Jo Fleming Contemporary Art, Women artists at Chesapeake Arts Center, NMWA celebrates Black women printmakers, High Tide in Dorchester screens at MD Center for History and Culture, The Folks at Home open at Center Stage, and more!
“I wanted to create a space for Black people to feel surrounded by ancestors, surrounded by love.”
The future looks busy and bright for Merriweather, who completed her Fountainhead Residency in September and returned to live and work at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, where she’ll be in residence through July 2022.
"I always think of how much, how high, and how something can get done that has yet to be seen or encountered."
Carla Du Pree’s profound surrender to the principle of abundance has allowed her advocacy to flourish, especially CityLit Project, a Baltimore literary nonprofit founded by Gregg Wilhelm in 2004.
Succinct reviews of three must-see exhibitions in Baltimore this weekend
CENTENNIAL: On The Topic Of Now at Current Space, Open House: Art, Craft, and Domesticity at MICA's Decker Gallery, and a new art gallery/retail space in the former ICA Baltimore building on North Avenue.
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Safe Streets, call for "State of Emergency" in Baltimore, abortion debate continues in State House, “Black Collagists: The Book” by Teri Henderson featured at No Pix After Dark, and more reporting from The Trace, Baltimore Fishbowl, WYPR, and more.
The LLC, 405-417 East Oliver Street Partners, closed on the four-story, 71,744-square-foot building for $3.8 million
The legendary Greenmount West artist studio and exhibition space, owned and operated by artists since 2002, was sold to an LLC formed by the nonprofit Central Baltimore Partnership and real estate developer Ernst Valery on March 8, 2022.
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
This Week: Zoë Charlton leads a talk on Baltimore artist residences for MSAC, NMWA presents International Women’s Day virtual festival, reception for E. Brady Robinson's SK8R GRLS at Hotel Indigo, John Waters reception at C. Grimaldis Gallery, BMA hosts Rikiesha Metzger lecture, and more!
On care work, connection, and paying close attention
"I do think that artists have always played an important role in imagining alternatives and bringing to light things that we’re not discussing otherwise."
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
This week's news includes: Happy filthy 50 to Pink Flamingos, opposition to gun safety bill from gun dealers, Ernest Shaw podcast profile, Roland Park green space, and more reporting from Maryland Matters, WYPR, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.
How an upbringing in Baltimore and an earlier career in law influence the BMA's chief curator
Naeem considers her shift from law to art history, which had been an early passion, to be just that: a shift and not a U-turn.
