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In "Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again" a Young Painter Pays Homage to an Iconic Influence

MICA alumnus Louis Fratino makes a triumphant homecoming to the museum that shaped his practice.

Originally from Baltimore and now based in LA, Smith is an abstract painter and sculptor who manipulates mountains of fabric.

“All my creativity, spirituality, and skills that I utilize today—and wherever I go—came from Baltimore,” Smith says.

A Neurosurgeon’s Dedication to the Metaphor-Making Machine

Through all the years he wrote and lectured about the relationship between art and science, Salcman never used art in his role as a doctor with his patients. Within the walls of the Salcmans’ home, however, is another story.

Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)

Baltimore sculptor Elliot Doughtie has thought a lot about locker rooms and other liminal spaces in which one’s identity is in flux.

A Review of Walk a Mile in My Dreams, Joyce Scott's 50-year retrospective now on view at the BMA

Surveying Scott’s oeuvre, one can see she isn’t preoccupied by death; Scott is preoccupied by the ways in which we choose to live—and treat each other in life.

The Me Before The War No Longer Exists, A Photographic Series

There is an interesting juxtaposition between the medium of tintype and the subject of refugees. Volkova’s project aims to fix, however momentarily, a population defined by movement—people dislocated by war.

The Acme Corporation Finds Salvation Among Community in their Newest Opera

"The Lights Went Out Because of a Problem," an opera created in Baltimore, is at the Voxel through December 17, 2023

This painting technique is also one of deliberate migration, called a “nomad” mark by the artist

Heydari's visual algorithms calculate a daily experience of chaotic disorientation

Each numbered case contains all the necessary components for a person to install one of these works in a place of their choosing

CPM’s newest edition project is a collectible, collaboration between gallery director Vlad Smolkin and artist Luba Drozd

Glenstone is a place that seamlessly integrates art, architecture, and nature into a serene and contemplative environment.

Located in Potomac, Maryland, a museum that tends to its outdoor environments as much as the indoor ones that house much of the art.

The Multidisciplinary Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) Receives His First, Overdue Major Museum Retrospective Posthumously

In working with a fixed set of decades-old family portraits, Ellis constantly conjured the past. His sculpted surfaces acted as a sort of Ouija board, though instead of a planchet, Ellis was guided by his father's original negatives to commune with his spirit.

The contemporary painter's work holds sorrow and joy, pain and comfort, tears and laughter together in the same space

Toor's paintings are autobiographical yet steeped in references to classical paintings, executed with the casual air of an illustrator in his sketchbook.

An Artist Whose Collections Weave into Her Art

Though the first floor of Franklin's home is filled with art, there are no defined boundaries that separate the art in her collection, the art she herself makes, her collections in progress, and the more ordinary articles of her life.

The final screening is June 11 at the SNF Parkway Theater

The final three screenings are fitting, as they amplify the voices of many regional artists, Baltimore’s youth, and the complex beauty of the city itself.

In TLaloC’s 'Orbis Tertius: Hlaer to Jangr,' vibrant inflatable pieces filled the space from floor to ceiling, gleaming like alien objects, their purpose and meaning inscrutable.

In an economic and political environment where artists are accustomed to scarcity, the notion of excess space is indeed otherworldly.

The city-wide triennial features site-specific work responding to New Orleans, the American South and, often as a result, issues of environmental, economic, and racial justice

With 17 different venues and a map in hand, I moved in currents and countercurrents over the course of my 11-day visit and still didn’t see it all.

Studying Bourgeois next to Maghazehe, the theme of rupture emerges again and again

Both women are primarily known for their work in sculpture, and that tactile sensibility easily translates to these textured two-dimensional pieces.

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.