The 60th Venice Biennale takes on themes of displacement, environmental injustice, racism, colonialism, but also manages to avoid easy cliches, providing moments of joy and optimism by treating artists from marginalized backgrounds as individuals with agency.
This week: Evan Woodward's museum, Blaze Star, John Waters turns 78, Juius Wilson at AVAM, Megan Lewis, Joyce J. Scott, MICA UP/Start Venture Winner Announced, and RuPaul winners to race at Baltimore Pride, and more!
A Subjective and Personal List of Auction Artworks in Preview that I would Love to Acquire!!!
In Conjunction with BmoreArt’s C+C Exhibit featuring Fostel’s charcoal drawings of women’s bedrooms, a conversation with the Co-Director of the Baltimore Abortion Fund
This Week: MICA Community Art & Service Program exhibition, In the Stacks performance at Peabody Library, City of Artists I closing reception at Connect + Collect, Mari Black at Manor Mill, Open Works yard sale, screening of Black Printmakers of Washington DC at Smithsonian Anacostia, and more!
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With The Hot Wing King, Baltimore Center Stage serves up a lively spread of rapid-fire one-liners, spicy moves, and camaraderie that serves as an entree to a discussion of contemporary Black manhood through April 28
Student Designers: Anaitza Brown, Austin Chia, Quinn Spence, Olivia Zheng, Nikki Zhao, Sasha Kramer, Kai Nunnally, Solli Kim, Cedar Clark, Rachel Glen, and Mahnoor Chaudry.
At Arting Gallery, David Barnett instills seriousness with a profound dose of wackiness. Or another way of describing A Carnival of Characters is that this intense, inventive show explores the childlike in the adult, and the other way around.
Last Saturday, the most recent Members Party featured live projections by Tony Rutka and beats from DJ Paul Campion. I am kicking myself for being out of town last week, but thankfully digital and film photographer Oliver Maddox captured the fun and sent some photos our way to stoke my FOMO.
21st Annual CityLit Festival Takes On "Dismantling the Culture of Silence"
An Interview with This Year's Featured Authors, Kwame Alexander and Jami AttenbergTugging at the Stitches of Art History: Elizabeth Talford Scott
Eyewinkers, Tumbleturds, and Candlebugs Revisited: A Legacy Unfolds at the Baltimore Museum of ArtThree Sondheim Finalists Announced for 2024
Congrats to Hellen Ascoli, Amy Boone-McCreesh, and Sam MackBaltimore Gallery: Nine April Exhibitions
Nine Gallery Shows in Baltimore this AprilPlaying in Museums with Pablo Helguera
Pablo Helguera in Conversation with Rebecca UchillShop BmoreArt: Subscriptions, Books, Print Journals, & Branded Goods
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Wendel Patrick is an associate professor of music engineering at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University; he is also a composer, producer, beatmaker, pianist, sonic architect, photographer, and videographer. But how has he sustained a career with such a diverse breadth of work?
This week's news includes: 25th Annual Maryland Film Festival, Aubrey Plaza cast in John Waters' Liarmouth, Lena Stringari appointed Chief of Conservation at the National Gallery - with reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Banner, Brew, and other local and independent news sources!
Here, before us at the school, are stripped-down, geometricized versions of four individual caterpillars, poised at different moments in their movements—stretching upward toward the sky, looking ahead, or reaching toward the ground, as if scouting for fallen leaves on the brick foundation...
"If I were genuinely paralyzed by my own criticism, I probably wouldn't be able to do anything. I would stop myself. But there is always a moment when I forget about everything else, I forget about time, and I put down whatever I have in my mind. That is music for me."
BmoreArt News: Larry Hogan, Diversity in Arts Grant Funding, New/Next Film Festival
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Announcing a Second Printing of our City of Artists Book!The Public Art Chronicles, Vol. II: Michelle Santos' 2011 Mural "Historic Druid Heights"
Two Community Organizers Were Immortalized in a Mural that Ended up on the Front Page of the New York Times as an Illustration for Baltimore's Clap-Back to Donald TrumpBmoreArt News: Julia Marciari-Alexander Leaving the Walters, James Beard Finalists, and more
Baltimore news updates from independent & regional mediaBaltimore Gallery: Nine April Exhibitions
Nine Gallery Shows in Baltimore this AprilThe Baltimore Arts & Culture Guide
Search: Museums, Galleries, Performance, Film, Organizations & Advocacy, Literary Organizations, Media, Bookshops, Maker, Mixed Use & Studios, Education, Grants & Awards, Residencies, Artist Housing, and Supplies. This guide is for Baltimore area artists, makers, creatives, and anyone who wants to get involved in the arts in the region.
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A recap of our very first City of Artists release celebration on December 8, 2023: a reading at the Enoch Pratt Library featuring authors Scott Shane, Sheri Booker, Lane Harlan, E. Doyle-Gillespie, and BmoreArt publisher Cara Ober as moderator.
This, the Pratt’s 36th Breakfast, was to be my first. And so, with little idea of what to expect, I daydreamed about Jesmyn and me sitting across a fancy table, spearing pancakes and passing the bacon whilst talking about characters we had yet to bring to life.
City of Artists, BmoreArt's first full-length book, sold out in December, but is now available through a second printing
Helguera integrates playful formats with serious topics in his new work, Flor de Juegos Antiguos, created for the BMA’s new Joseph Education Center Experience Gallery
Unreliable Narrators: An Evening with Ann Patchett and R. Eric Thomas
A Sort of Recap on Ann Patchett and R. Eric Thomas in conversation via the Ivy BookshopFOMOgraphy: Baltimore Jewelry Center's Annual Ornamenta Benefit
Sapphire-Clad Guests Looked Divine at 2640The Club Car Pulls into Station North
A Pop-up Queer Cabaret and Art Space Breathes New Life into Storied North Avenue Market LocaleTwo Baltimore-based Artists Receive Creative Capital Grants
Jackie Milad and Marnie Ellen Hertzler Receive Prestigious National GrantFaux Pubes Fashion Show: "Merkin Dream" at MAP
What better event to host on International Women's Day?Connect + Collect
Connect+Collect is a BmoreArt initiative designed to engage new and established collectors and to build relationships with Baltimore based artists and galleries through talks, gallery tours, and studio visits.
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View AllIn Issue 16: Collaboration, we explore synergistic models in the region, artists whose practice invites others in, organizations who prioritize collective action, and institutional entities willing to elevate local partners.