The Tuareg guitarist talks about poetry in translation, legacies of colonization, and building his first guitar using bicycle brake cables
Mdou Moctar's music carries memories through traditional guitar rhythms, a fusion between the desert nomads and modern diaspora.
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Micah E. Wood's intimate portraits capture a bold musical vision
Color-saturated images of favorite Baltimore-based bands inspired by fashion, design, and art
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Annet Couwenberg at UMBC, MICA Constitution Day, Matisse & Etta Cone at the BMA, Meg Rorison and Monique Crabb at Current, Landscapes at the David Driskell Center, Free Fall Baltimore, plus Solos 2022 Call for Proposals at Arlington Arts Center, Grit Fund Recovery Grants, and more.
"Laurie Anderson: The Weather" presents more than fifty works from across a renowned career
Featuring sculptures, installations, videos, and photographs, and juxtaposing pieces from across her career with a host of recent works , "The Weather" is a dazzling display of what the art historian RoseLee Goldberg once called Anderson’s “powerful inventive drive.
This group exhibition of contemporary Black Baltimore- and DC-based artists plays on personal and collective histories
The show’s larger focus is material culture, specifically Black material culture featuring objects that contain history and tradition.
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The new model for FY2024 projects that the smaller 250 organizations would receive 73% of the funding instead of the current 54%
The new plan will direct significant increases to smaller and midsize arts organizations and make cuts to the major institutions who have historically received the lion’s share of state funding.
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The New Black Vanguard curated by Antwaun Sargent at MICA's Meyerhoff Gallery, Brandon Woody & Asya Shaw perform at The BMA, Cicada Parade-a Garden Party at Carroll Mansion, Bromo Arts Walk, and Station North Shines, plus Grit Fund Emergency Recovery Grants
Photos from Station North's July art walk, with info about the district and the changes afoot
Station North seems to have stabilized recently with its official adoption by the Central Baltimore Partnership.
If you care about the planet, and how the education of America’s children plays into this equation, then this book is for you
Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught in America by Katie Worth explains how climate change is taught in American schools
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Why the director of the performance series In the Stacks and curator at Hopkins' Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection wants you to listen to Classical music
"I’m inspired by these musicians that weren’t satisfied with the presenting platforms or ensembles that existed, so they just created new ones."
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This Week: NMWA xChange, fiber artist + activist Tanya Aguiñiga, the 14Karat Cabaret at MAP, Betty Cooke's Legacy at The Walters, F.E.A.S.T. Mutual Aid Call for Proposals at VisArts, and more.
Why is a painting of a nude woman by a woman potentially offensive, but not one by a man?
Lisa Yuskavage’s porn-inspired, rainbow-hued paintings of women in fantasy landscapes are featured at the BMA through Sept 19 in Wilderness, a survey show co-organized with the Aspen Museum of Art
The curator-centric show favors colorful, crafty, and playful work that transforms its banal context—two vacant floors of a Manhattan office building
This year, dozens of curators were invited to organize exhibitions around the theme HEARSAY:HERESY—a timely prompt in this age of fake news and ever raging culture wars, yet one that often manifested in decidedly Medieval aesthetics.
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At Baltimore's Milk & Ice Vintage, Clothing Offers Histories of Resilience and Innovation
Models Abbey Parrish and Paris Roberts bring historic vintage pieces to life in a photo essay by Jill Fannon
