BmoreArt

It’s been three weeks since my ER doctor called to confirm that I tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3, a full 14 days after qualifying for a test that should have been available the first day I had a fever of 102—not eight days and a serious bout of pneumonia later.

You would think that I would be on the same page as our major collecting institution in Baltimore, but I do not understand their “art math.”

An interview with Marquis Revlon Clanton and Joseph Plaster on the historic collaboration between JHU Peabody Library and Baltimore's ballroom community

A range of strategies for beginning a collection-from how to conduct research, studio visits, payment plans, and the need for cultural ownership and preservation

This Week:  Victoria Walton artist talk at Clayworks, D. Watkins and Celeste Doaks in conversation with Cara Ober at Bird in Hand, opening reception for Paula Gately Tillman at Arting Gallery, Get On My Level at Creative Alliance, Kim Rice and Paul Rucker at Connect+Connect and more!

Unlike Basel, where you know the names of every single artist and gallery, at Maco there was so much space for discovery.

This week's news includes: Rebecca Hoffberger reimagines the Inner Harbor, BmoreArt's Cara Ober profiled, John Waters' best films of 2022, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.

In Randi Reiss-McCormack’s gritty, graceful work, there’s wild, yet carefully choreographed dance.

As a pragmatist and the editor of an independent publication that collaborates with artist groups and cultural institutions, I see so much room for improvement in the language and accessibility employed to attract new audiences

The first thing I noticed at The Bluebird cocktail bar was the colors of its walls. It’s not quite Navy Blue and not Pthalo either. It’s a matte Midnight Blue ...

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.

Culture Strike is essential reading for art museum professionals, board members, artists, and cultural community members

A BmoreArt Gallery Discussion and Event with the Ecological Design Collective