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Curation in the Age of Coronavirus

How a curator’s role must evolve, immediately and for the future

We all expended a tremendous amount of labor—myself, the artists, art handlers, the gallery director, friends, family—to get the show open. And now, the result of COVID-19 is that effort sits in a gallery unviewed.

Visual Art

Seeking Out Imperfection with Ellen Lesperance

Ellen Lesperance talks about the relevance of craft, the beauty of mistakes, creative direct action, and more

Craft materials, like art materials, need to be utilized to generate new and personal meanings that have relevance, that also engage with the world of ideas.

News & Opinion

BmoreArt’s Picks: April 7-13

BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

This week we are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch plus a few ways to get involved locally. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

Film

‘Fantastic Fungi’ Ponders Mushrooms of the Psychedelic and Non-Trippy Variety

Director Louie Schwartzberg, who has made a name for himself over the past few decades because of his ravishing time-lapse photography, has likely found the ideal subject to suit his schtick in Fantastic Fungi, a movie about the inarguable special-ness of mushrooms

Fantastic Fungi is also a portrait of a community of mushroom obsessives—who journalist Eugenia Bone beautifully describes as, “bloated pleasure-seekers with a scientific bent.”

Visual Art

Field of Potential: Regarding the Quotidian as Art

Even as much of the art world retreated to the safety of the internet, some creative workers continued their trade in the public sphere

We now know that this will be a matter of months, rather than weeks: the Cleveland Museum of Art has already canceled all programming through the end of June, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art expects to remain closed at least through July.

News & Opinion

We Are All Alone Together

On being alone, whether by choice or quarantine

For those lucky enough to be healthy after two weeks of quarantine, you can hug, kiss, dance, and snuggle. Don’t take this for granted.

Words: Cara Ober

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