BmoreArt’s Picks: April 13-19
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
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Art AND: Chris Bathgate
Constantly pursuing the feeling of learning something new, Bathgate finds himself experimenting on the edge of the technologies he employs
It’s important to Bathgate that his works be makeable, at least by someone with his extremely specific skill set, which he admits only a few people in the world possess.
All Things At Once: Visual Diary for a Wayward Year
For every experience lost during this year of quiet, do we gain something else?
I tend to pair images together to complicate things, to show that my life is not one thing or another, that there is always a subtext or a tangent or a side story and nothing is simple.
Litscope: Aries & Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country
These poems center on a young Muslim American girl named Nima, but the issues that she wrestles with are far from childish
Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country is more than a book, it’s a complex adventure, perfect for restless Aries.
The News: Police Reform Bill Debated in State Senate, Mosby Pleads Her Case, Voting Rights in Maryland
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore news from the Baltimore Brew, WYPR, Baltimore Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
Curator Rhea Combs Joins the National Portrait Gallery as Director of Curatorial Affairs
Rhea Combs, Curator of film and photography at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will start at the NPG on May 10, 2021
"I look forward to working with the curatorial team, NPG’s leadership, and its Commissioners to examine the museum’s current collections and how we interpret stories surrounding various objects," says Combs.
BmoreArt’s Picks: April 6-12
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Vinnie Hager’s Inventive Codes and Doodles
Hager's signature all-over designs can be found on skate decks, chairs, T-shirts, hats, purses, paper
Many of his most popular works are the clothing that he draws on, unique works of art that travel with the wearer to bars, concerts, and gatherings.
How I Know I’m Still Here: Visual Diary by Priyanka Kumar
Hellzones, moments, and several stages of limbo
I don’t fully register when the anxieties of one reality morph into ten other kinds in this new reality, but April is where it is, in my head.
The News: Police Reform Package Fails, Conflict of Interest at City Hall, Maryland’s Big Budget
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore news from the Baltimore Brew, Technical.ly Baltimore, Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
2021 Baker Artist Awardees Announced
This year, 36 artists across 6 categories get $2,500 each
For the 2021 awards, this structure "was specifically modified to address the needs of artists working in the region, almost all of whom have been affected by the COVID-19 epidemic."
Liner Notes: Adam G. Holofcener’s New Album ‘GEE-ZA-WHIZ’
Not so much an interview as one friend interrogating another, pushing him a little
Musician and MDVLA executive director Adam G. Holofcener’s new album GEE-ZA-WHIZ begins with a deep breath and a deeper exhalation
BmoreArt’s Picks: March 30 – April 5
The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
The Future of Live Music Post-Pandemic
An interview with Ottobar’s Tecla Tesnau and Todd Lesser and WWR’s KK Yeh
Yeh, Tesnau, and Lesser spoke with me about the importance of a robust local music industry, adapting during the pandemic, and deeply missing the visceral experience of live music.
Grids Are Not Neutral: A Year on Zoom
On Lee Walton’s “Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom” and the online platform's subtle social ticks
Zeven Event Zcores for Zoom by Lee Walton, part of ‘sindikit’s Friday night performance series
The News: State Funds HBCUs, Baltimore Stands With Atlanta Against Asian Hate, More on the Mosbys
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media
Baltimore news from the Baltimore Brew, Technical.ly Baltimore, Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
Five 2021 Sondheim Finalists Announced
The five individual artists selected as this year’s finalists are Hoesy Corona, Tsedaye Makonnen, Jonathan Monaghan, Lavar Munroe, and Hae Won Sohn.
This year, the finalists’ work will be exhibited in person at the Walters Art Museum, on view Thursday, May 27, through Sunday, July 18, 2021.
Pandemic Sounds: 12 Baltimore Albums Released Since the Start of Quarantine
Some of these records inevitably confront themes that are pertinent to our present circumstances and upheavals, some take the listener to places subterranean or extraterrestrial, and many others pull off an inventive combination of all the above.