The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
It was HARD making time for the internet this week. But when I was on it, I loved it. Highlights: Blacking out on Rihanna, Tyler Perry's moment, Black women of ... Read More...
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News Briefs: Lots of Money for Artists, Natural Dye in Baltimore, & Deborah Willis and Bill Gaskins at MICA
2019 Rubys Grantees Announced
The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation has awarded $150,000 this year to 19 projects in the visual arts, literature, performance, a... Read More...
A Liberatory Breath: Black Abstraction at the BMA
Black abstraction riffs like jazz, implodes and reassembles itself from the myriad influences that found its emergence. Black abstraction is rooted in a meta-co... Read More...
Seizure of Reality: Kat Sotelo’s ‘The Wild Walls’ at Open Space
I am uncomfortably close to a plate breaking over an actor’s head, seated among the audience on my metal folding chair. The seating is designed for easy movemen... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS OCTOBER 8-14
This week: Charm City Fringe Festival Launch Party at MAP Underground, Eye to Eye opening reception at Catalyst Contemporary, Can I Kick It? Presents: Predator... Read More...
A Writers Workshop is Coming to Lucille Clifton’s Baltimore Home
The day before Valentine’s Day in 2010, the legendary poet Lucille Clifton passed. At the time, Sidney Clifton, Lucille’s eldest child, was working on a series ... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
The internet was complex, sad, and amazing this week. Highlights: the life of Zora Neale Hurston, mourning Toni Morrison, the magnificence of Jessye Norman, Dia... Read More...
Strange Dream: The Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival Is Just So Much
I've been trying to recreate this one feeling for about a month now. On a red-eye flight back from Los Angeles, too edgy to sleep, too sleepy to do anything but... Read More...
Media Studies: Soledad Salamé at Goya Contemporary
Near the entrance into Soledad Salamé’s lyrical, affecting show at Goya Contemporary, We the Migrants: Fleeing/Flooding, on view through Oct. 26, stand three th... Read More...
Art AND: Nick Primo
Nick Primo spends his days measuring: how long it’s going to take on a given day to commute from Baltimore to his day job in Smithsonian American Art Museum’s (... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS OCTOBER 1-7
This week: Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival at the Parkway, MICA Weekend 2019, Secret Life Of Earth exhibition preview party at AVAM, Doors Open Baltimore, S... Read More...
Mojdeh Rezaeipour Depicts the Iranian American Female Body Through Omissions
What do you think when you see someone wearing a hijab, or the shape of the continental US? Do you take the time to meet the person underneath, or question the ... Read More...
The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
I learned a lot of things about the internet this week. Highlights: the breadth of TikTok, the history of modern celebrities, Judith Butler reviews Bari Weiss's... Read More...
No Room for Nihilism: Adam G Holofcener’s ‘Everything’s Ostensible’
Everything’s liquefying my brain. I’m trying to limit the mind-numbing time that I spend on the internet where the day-to-day galaxy-brain discourse makes it im... Read More...
Men and Country Stretched to Their Limits in Ad Astra, Hustlers, Rambo: Last Blood, and Ken Burns’ Country Music
Immersive, like a Cinerama screening of 2001 in 1968 or like that Terminator 2 ride at Universal Studios in the early '90s, James Gray's Ad Astra (now screening... Read More...
Healing the Body Politic: Mel Chin’s Fundred Project at Eaton DC
In the elegant lobby of Eaton DC, the new four-star hotel and co-working members club for artists and community change-makers on K Street, colorful C-notes have... Read More...
The Limits and Contours of “Arabicity”
The new Middle East Institute Art Gallery, which opened its doors with a lively reception on September 14, certainly holds promise. It’s a handsome (if modest) ... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS SEPTEMBER 24-30
This week: Ana Finel Honigman: Cult Artists conversation with Cara Ober at Ivy Bookshop, Nora Sturges: Levitation and Jackie Milad: Chaos Comes and Goes opening... Read More...
Context and Celebrity: Amy Sherald at Hauser & Wirth
I should have arrived earlier. The line stretched down the block to enter Hauser & Wirth, host to Amy Sherald’s first New York solo show, The Heart of the M... Read More...
The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
The internet was lowkey but good this week. Highlights: The disastrous Boeing 737 Max, Crazy Horse, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chris Jackson, Congressional fanfiction... Read More...
Derrick Adams’ Family Archives Capture Intimate, Joyful, and Ordinary Baltimore Moments
You are an archive. Your cellular memory and the genetic structures that determined the color of your eyes are archives too, lasting proof about your ancestry. ... Read More...
Through Archives and Ephemera, the Corcoran Revisits Its Decision to Cancel Robert Mapplethorpe’s 1989 Retrospective
In the late 1980s, a selection of new projects funded by the National Endowment of the Arts caught the concerned eye of Congress. On June 8, 1989, Congress sent... Read More...
Tradition and Innovation: Indigma’s Indian Cuisine
Your senses become more aware of your surroundings when you step into a restaurant. Your eyes move around the room, seeing every detail, decor, people's faces, ... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS SEPTEMBER 17-23
This week: Soledad Salemé at Goya Contemporary, 2nd Tri-Annual MSAC Artist Registry Juried Exhibition opening reception at Maryland Art Place, For the Love of M... Read More...
Mera Kitchen Collective on Community Care and Transformation Through Food
At 6:30 a.m. outside of a downtown hotel, Chef Iman does the twist, flaunting her new shoes. The women of Mera Kitchen Collective are in good spirits, finally r... Read More...
The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
I didn’t spend much time on the internet this week, but when I did it was rather insightful. Highlights: Bonnaroo for oyster nerds, Caroline Calloway, Amy Shera... Read More...
Truth, Soul, and Speculative Fiction: “Putney Swope” and Isaac Julien’s “Baltimore”
The plot is the point and beside the point in Robert Downey Sr.'s unregulated Putney Swope (1969) screening at the Parkway on September 18 and 21 as part of Art... Read More...
Entering Enchantment: An Interview with Karen Finley
Iconic performance artist Karen Finley visited UMBC for a week-long residency in the first week of September. The provocative performer, who rose to national pr... Read More...
Art AND: Victoria Pass
Victoria Pass recommends you stop buying cheap shoes. The MICA professor of visual culture has built her own impressive shoe collection over the last 15 years, ... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS SEPTEMBER 10-16
This week: Juliana Soltis' Going Off Script: The Ornamented Suites for Cello at the Creative Alliance, Sunhee Kim Jung: The Camouflage at The Peale's temporary ... Read More...