Litscope: Capricorn and Black Buck
The challenges of ladder-climbing and Capricorn ambition
Darren is definitely intrigued by the loads of money he could make as a salesperson at Sumwun, but there is more to it.
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BmoreArt’s Picks: January 5-11
BmoreArt’s Picks presents 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 Intimacy of Nightlife in Sydney J. Allen’s Photography
Inspired by gothic literature and speculative fiction, Allen’s photos conjure a sense of home, safety, and agency
The circle is a ritual space of release, love, gratitude, bliss, and praise, and memories of this ritual come flooding back when looking at photographs by Sydney J. Allen.
New Year! New You! New Art Opportunities!
Start your year off by applying for an exhibition, grant, or other opportunity on the local and national stage
A list of applications for residencies, exhibitions, grants, internships, public projects, and more.
COVID Restrictions Continue, Politics as Usual, and Help for Heating
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media 12/31
Baltimore News from Baltimore Publications and Writers including the Baltimore Brew, Technical.ly Baltimore, Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
Art in Suspended Animation: Ten Best Baltimore Exhibitions of 2020
The future is unclear, but making and experiencing art is more essential than ever
These ten exhibits of 2020 provide a fractured but highly ambitious roadmap, messy and democratic and full of brilliant tangents, the perfect puzzle for a precarious and undetermined future.
Valuable Moments From the Garbage Year
Reckonings, mutual aid, pivots, and survival mode
What have we realized, or re-realized, or realized for the nth time in 2020?
Lyrics and Remnants of Color: Hasani Sahlehe’s Show at Resort
Seeing the paintings in “I Can’t Wait To See You” is a synesthetic event
Looking at Sahlehe's paintings feels like listening to Solange’s When I Get Home, Alice Coltrane’s Journey in Satchidananda, and Pharoah Sanders’ "Harvest Time."
Baltimore’s Twinkling Holiday Lights
A photo essay of front yard light displays
Baltimore's unique holiday light displays from a variety of neighborhoods
Monsieur Zohore’s “The Last Supper” at the BMA
A performance protest featuring a cast of Baltimore-based artists and bright yellow paint
Zohore’s new performance, enacted across the street from the BMA’s iconic marble steps, co-opts the literal subject of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” and considers the museum’s deaccessioning through the lens of religious sacrifice.
BmoreArt Releases Issue 10: Power
BmoreArt's print journal examines power within the context of individual art practices, communities, and institutional structures
Issue 10: Power is BmoreArt's second print journal released since Covid-19 closures
Art AND: Magnolia Laurie
Laurie plays with borders and fences, flat spaces and wide-open ones that look like anywhere and nowhere at once
"I try to stress that all the real work in art-making is in the practice and the learning from those little failures along the way."
Injury and Care: Visual Diary by Bonnie Crawford
Diptychs from February 2020, capturing moments just before the shutdown, and the months that have followed
"I think of them as meditations on how injury is unavoidable and what that means for how we care for one another."
City Council Reorganization, Vaccine Rollout, and Spy Plane Lies
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional media 12/17
Baltimore News from Baltimore Publications and Writers including the Baltimore Brew, Technical.ly Baltimore, Fishbowl, Maryland Matters, and more
Erasure Poetry: Clifford Owens at CPM Gallery
The exhibition title, Skully, comes from a popular game Owens played as a child in Druid Heights, just a mile away from Bolton Hill, the site of CPM, a new art gallery
Viewed as movements, these abstracts are maps that retrace Owens’ process, the steps he took to arrive at the finished series.
BmoreArt’s Picks: December 15-21
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.
Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.
Structural Flaws: Kim Rice’s “Inheritance” Visualizes Legacies of White Supremacy
A White Artist Examines A Personal and Collective Legacy of White Privilege
This artwork skips the fraught emotionality of white people’s coming into consciousness about the constructs of race and the iterations of racism, and instead leads the viewer straight into an intellectual headspace.
Multitudes and Multiverses: Black Futures Co-Editors Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
An Interview with the two editors of Black Futures
The Black Futures project will remain a bastion of the wonder of Black mastery as well as the beauty of Black mundanity.