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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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 was lowkey but good this week. Highlights: The disastrous Boeing 737 Max, Crazy Horse, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chris Jackson, Congressional fanfiction... Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...