The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
There were some interesting articles published this week, but I honestly wasn’t that into being online. Highlights: Queering Barbie, when whiteness is the thing... Read More...
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News Briefs: Mare Residency Launch, Ivy Bookshop’s New Home, Celeste Doaks’ “American Herstory”
Mare Residency Initiative Launches at Sunspot Studios in West Baltimore
The first iteration of a new, nomadic residency program starts in the small neighborh... Read More...
AFRAM 2019: Photo Essay
AFRAM dawned bright and blinding, like most festivals in the city this summer do. It could have been the heat, the long walk into the main stage in Druid Hill P... Read More...
Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick Document the Scars of Slavery and Mass Incarceration
Rich in tonal texture and shallow in its cropping of the figure, Chandra McCormick’s photograph "Daddy'O" (2004) pays homage to the oldest living prisoner ever ... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS AUGUST 13-19
This week: Blurred Boundaries Pop Up Art Exhibition, Spiritual First Aid for Creatives at the Walters, Rahne Alexander Book Release at Red Emma's, Submersive Pr... Read More...
Fluid Movement in Photos
Since 1999, an ever-expanding troupe of passionate community performers have been dazzling the deep end of Baltimore City’s public pools with what has become a ... Read More...
The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
The internet paid reverence to Toni Morrison this week. Highlights: Zadie Smith and the daughters of Toni Morrison, Kara Walker's Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coate... Read More...
Current Space’s Newly Official Forever Home
On a warm, late July evening, Julianne Hamilton and Michael Benevento are preparing for a party.
A big one.
Three years since they initially set out to ... Read More...
News Briefs: Trump’s Purposeful Dehumanization of Baltimore, Remembering Toni Morrison, BMA’s Year of the Woman, and more
"We Are Human." Baltimore's Nicole King Offers an Excellent Response to Trump's Vicious Baltimore Assault
Nicole King's August 1 Newsweek op-ed, Trump's De... Read More...
Terrible Men at the Movies: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and ‘Mikey & Nicky’
“I don’t understand why someone would go through all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to tell us what we can’t do and what you won... Read More...
Living for a Living: Greg Morton, Art Collector and Owner of Frederick Douglass’s Fells Point Home
Financier, businessman, and art collector Greg Morton splits his time between New Jersey and a house that the abolitionist Frederick Douglass built in Baltimore... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS AUGUST 6-12
This week: Made in Baltimore Maker Conversations featuring Taste This Cake at the Parkway, Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown's Bañera de Flora performance at the Wal... Read More...
Black Body As Temple: Sharayna Christmas Creates Opportunities for Baltimore Youth to Dance, Travel, and Heal
When Sharayna Christmas says the word “dance,” body and movement are in the backseat, discipline of the mind is riding passenger, and spirituality is behind the... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must Read Articles This Week
Trump and Baltimore are still beefing; the internet was still very good but dense this week. Highlights: Lizzo performed at a very small desk, Chance the Rapper... Read More...
What They’re Wearing: The Doll House Boutique Pre-Fall Collection
Baltimore brims with an amazing sartorial edge. No matter where you go, Baltimore's citizens sport confident looks inspired by creative energy and expression, r... Read More...
Art AND: Mary Fissell
Mary Fissell is relatively new to this. A long-time professor of 17th- and 18th-century English history at Johns Hopkins University, Fissell is also a metalwork... Read More...
‘Let Me Hang Out in My Own Self’: Amorous Ebony on Healing, Sensuality, and Support
Amorous Ebony takes a deep breath and smirks as she starts to explain the inspiration for her new music video, “Lovely Mess.” The video features Ebony shrouded ... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS JULY 30 – AUGUST 5
This week: E. Brady Robinson: Sitch ongoing at Addison Fine Art, It Happens to Us film screening at Goya, Antonio McAfee and Jay Gould: Time and Place opening r... Read More...
Fluid Movement, Baltimore’s Water Ballet and Performance Collective, Turns Twenty
I moved to Baltimore to join Fluid Movement. In 2013, I saw Moby Dick: The Water Ballet performed at Druid Hill Park pool. It was the scene where the swimmers w... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
Puerto Rico’s Governor resigned, there was violence and protest in Hong Kong, Warren Kanders finally resigned from the Whitney board, smelling Rihanna is the cl... Read More...
Artscape 2019: Photo Essay
Did you hear how hot this year’s Artscape was? I almost got hit by a couple of hand fans being waved around enthusiastically in the midst of phone conversations... Read More...
Some Came Alone: Border Meddling in “Vera Cruz,” Border Crossing in “Lingering Survival of the Unfit”
Typical Western heroics are tempered with nods to paternal US intervention and CIA-style meddling in Robert Aldrich's 1954 western Vera Cruz (screening at the C... Read More...
Visualizing Decimation: Sarah Maravetz and Gillian McCallion’s “Liquidation” at the Holocaust Museum
In a darkened room, eight strings of white LED lights hang from a jagged, geometric shape overhead. The white glow pulses like steady lightning and every second... Read More...
Refreshingly Unsafe: Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra Challenges Traditional Rules of Engagement at Center Stage
Theatergoers, picture this: You're in your seat dutifully being as quiet as possible. You're watching a story unfold onstage when, out of the corner of your eye... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS JULY 23-29
This week: Maryland Art Place presents Andrew Gray at the Hotel Indigo, Welcome Homesick Presents… The Yellow Wallpaper at the Peale, MICA's Grad Show V: Art Ed... Read More...
So Much Color: The 2019 Venice Biennale
Towards the rear of the central pavilion of this year’s Venice Biennale, a large mechanized metal gate swings forcefully back and forth on its hinge, crashing a... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
The internet was very interesting this week. Highlights: the stressful job of air traffic control, the moral complexities of Florida Man, Vogue loves Amy Sheral... Read More...
Baltimore Washington One Carnival: Photo Essay
Syncopated rhythms and chest-pounding bass echoed through Waverly and Clifton Park on Saturday, the first clue there was a party making its way down 33rd Street... Read More...
Indulgence and Inhibition: Nicole Dyer’s Tantalizing Work at Current Space
Nicole Dyer’s paintings beg to be touched. Bright pinks and greens and yellows burst from textured surfaces, with layers of acrylic paint and papier maché appli... Read More...
Effigies of Voice: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s ‘The Contour of Feeling’ at NMWA
“We don’t know the contour of feeling; we only know what molds it from without.” – Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Fourth Duino Elegy
Ursula von Rydingsvard'... Read More...