Notre Dame on Fire: An Absurdist Tragicomedy
Bees may have burned with Notre Dame.
So I was informed by The Guardian reporting on last Monday’s fire, in an article containing an odd juxtaposition I’ve b... Read More...
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The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
Notre Dame burned, and so did Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, Black churches in the US, as well as churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. Time Magazine released its lis... Read More...
In “Perilous Bodies,” International Artists Pull Up the Roots of Intolerance
Nineteen artists use elements of their own stories to consider where we are going and where we have been
In an essay on the efficacy of political art in the a... Read More...
No Glitter Allowed: Ballroom 101
An interview with Marquis Revlon Clanton and Joseph Plaster on the historic collaboration between JHU Peabody Library and Baltimore's ballroom community
The JH... Read More...
Alternative Adornment
Art Jewelry Goes Beyond Self-Expression and Experimentation: Collaborative Essay + Photos by Shane Prada and Jill Fannon
My colleagues and I are called upon to... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS APRIL 16 – 22
This week: BmoreArt's Connect + Collect III with Doreen Bolger and Taha Heydari at Motor House, Larder Talks: Dr. Sarah Taber and Denzel Mitchell, LaToya M. Hob... Read More...
Exhuming Domestic Roots: Zoë Charlton’s Mixed Media Works
Zoë Charlton's Images Merge Family Memories into Metaphor
The artist Zoë Charlton enjoys roaming the aisles of craft stores, filling her basket with an assortm... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
I liked the internet this week! We got to see the first images of a black hole, Baltimore fashion designer Bishme Cromartie triumphed in streetwear on Project R... Read More...
Bishme Cromartie on Project Runway
Tune in to Baltimore's Favorite Self-Taught Fashion Designer Competing on National Television
If you have been watching Season 17 of Project Runway, or attende... Read More...
Art AND: Corynne Ostermann
Corynne Ostermann is busy. Raised by Midwestern Evangelicals, the artist/ musician/ florist/ muralist/ event decorator describes herself as “a walking cartoon.”... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS APRIL 9 – 15
This week: Joyce J. Scott and Oletha DeVane in conversation at Church of the Redeemer, Neil Meyerhoff at C. Grimaldis Gallery, MICA's EDS presents "historically... Read More...
Connect + Collect II: Dexter Wimberly and Darryl Atwell
Connect + Collect II at Motor House: Audio with Photos by Jill Fannon
For the second C+C panel on February 28, we hosted DC-based collector Darryl Atwell, foun... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
The internet was kinda dark this week. Highlights: Nipsey Hussle’s life was an Eritrean American Dream, bronc riding is offering women a fleeting chance at glor... Read More...
Friday Gallery Roundup: Exeter Gallery, Current Space, Reginald F. Lewis Museum
This week: Tintypes, landscapes, and systematic oil paintings at Exeter Gallery; a recalibration of Matisse and reclamation of the nude by Se Jong Cho at Curren... Read More...
National Poetry Month with DewMore Baltimore
The literary nonprofit amplifies youth voices with upcoming poetry festival
“Trying to change my conversations to what you thought was right / Wrong! Got my to... Read More...
‘We Will Live Through This Also’: A Conversation With Artist Sandy Rodriguez
Los Angeles artist Sandy Rodriguez creates maps that collapse time, showing how modern-day atrocities are hardly different from those of the past
Through her i... Read More...
A Look at the 2019 Sondheim Finalists
Today the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) released the names of seven 2019 Sondheim Finalists. Compared to previous years where certain name... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS APRIL 2 – 8
This week: Submersive Productions presents MASS/RABBLE at the War Memorial, Our Words Will Still Be Heard at Jubilee Arts, Annie Farrar: Apparitions with MICA g... Read More...
Three Questions for “Decolonial Daughter” Author Lesley-Ann Brown
Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to Her European Son reflects on the lifelong process of decolonization
The term “decolonize” has found its way ... Read More...
Artspeak and Audience: Art Writing as Bridge or Barrier
Artspeak and Audience by Cara Ober was commissioned by BmoreArt as part of Field Perspectives 2019, a co-publishing initiative organized and supported by Common... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
A lot of things happened in the world this week—Agnes Varda died, there is flooding in Malawi, Cardi B drugged men and stole their money—but the internet was gr... Read More...
Friday Gallery Roundup: The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Transformer, and Ink Spot Press
This week: Photographer Roland Freeman's intimate documentation of Baltimore arabbers at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, the immigrant experience in Trump's Ameri... Read More...
The Aesthetics of a Cocktail: The Bluebird’s Paul Benkert Does Not Play
An interview with the owner of Baltimore's most beautiful cocktail bar
The first thing I noticed at The Bluebird cocktail bar was the colors of its walls. It’s... Read More...
Sex, Art, Feminism, and Freedom: Carolee Schneemann
Revisiting Carolee Schneemann’s Candor and Intellect
Editor's Note: This interview was published first at Hyperallergic on March 19, 2019.
In 1975... Read More...
BMOREART’S PICKS: BALTIMORE ART OPENINGS, GALLERIES, AND EVENTS MARCH 26 – APRIL 1
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspect... Read More...
Worthy of Protection: Ebony G. Patterson Centers Children Whose Lives Ended Violently
The mixed media artist's installation at the BMA wrangles power and excess
Sequin-encrusted tapestries, decorative wallpaper, delicate frosted-glass forms, and... Read More...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week
Sometimes analogue life (aka life in the real world) is much better than the internet. This week was one of those weeks, but the internet was still fun.
High... Read More...
Cheyanne Zadia’s Alpha Female Show Lets Women Artists Shine
This Sunday's event at Hotel Revival showcases local women in the arts and other professions
Cheyanne Zadia is encouraging women to speak louder. The 27-year-o... Read More...
Friday Gallery Roundup: Karen Y. Buster & Alma Roberts, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Homie House Press
This week: Precision and abstraction at Eubie Blake Cultural Arts Center, surreal shock in Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg's BMA exhibition, and deconstructed p... Read More...
Abbi Jacobson talks Broad City’s end, queer representation, and female friendship
Abbi Jacobson and cinematographer Ashley Connor on Broad City at the Parkway Theatre
A scene from the second-to-last episode of Broad City, which airs tonight,... Read More...