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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. We don’t consider our ...
In the late 1980s, a selection of new projects funded by the National Endowment of the Arts caught the concerned eye of Congress.
"This work is about empathy. I wait; I go into meditative spaces and I will either have automatic writing or I'll have an image."
Some of Baltimore's nicknames come across as yearningly hopeful, but somehow also result in a cynical, self-righteous apathy, a kind of recognition of the problems but a shrugging-off of the ...
“What if we could just grow the thing that we want?” Ryan Hoover is asking a radical question. What if, instead of cutting down a tree, pulping its wood, compressing ...
Rachel Debuque’s current exhibition at the ICA Baltimore, HaHa, keeps coming up in conversation around town lately. When people ask me about it, I always catch myself saying, “there’s this ...
One of my first encounters with Labbodies was by happenstance. I stumbled upon a performance by Bobby English, just walking down a dusty hallway in the Copycat Building. He was ...
Due to insularity, technology, the art market, and a majority of writing about art, we now carry a bevy preconceived notions about the kind of art we are supposed to love, how to love it, and how it's supposed to make us feel.
This week: the poetics of space and crumbling structures at Current Space, a strong sense of play at Cardinal, and open-ended explorations of femininity at Waller Gallery. Sarah Hunter, ...
Damon Arhos is a little obsessed with a particular shade of lavender. The hue appears again and again in his art, functioning, he explains, as a shorthand for the gayness ...
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 held in the Louisiana State ...
"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 Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore are Hiding an Awful ...
Financier, businessman, and art collector Greg Morton splits his time between New Jersey and a house that the abolitionist Frederick Douglass built in Baltimore’s Fells Point called Douglass Place. His ...
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 metalworker, primarily making wearable and nonwearable ...
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, the level of ...