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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 ...
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 at stately intervals into ...
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 applied like icing. Candy pieces ...
“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's soothing wooden sculptures were ...
It seems to be a common thing across cultures, the tendency to attribute similar kinds of intelligence to animals based on their behavior.
Carlyn Thomas has 200 songs in the notes app on her phone, should she find herself under the aging disco balls of Baltimore’s beloved dives on a random Tuesday or ...
Three small stones are carefully bound with red and orange thread to the center of “Hourglass,” a quilt by Elizabeth Talford Scott. They sit atop a yellow snakelike coil, amongst ...
Most people don’t associate luxury goods or domestic comfort with the brutalities of war, but Martha Rosler isn’t like most people. In her iconic series House Beautiful: Bringing the War ...
I walked into the Baltimore-based artist Mequitta Ahuja’s home studio on a chilly March morning with low clouds and a slight drizzle slowing the pace of an already dreary weekend. ...
Nearly a century ago, the French writer Paul Valéry penned the brief but eerily prescient essay “The Conquest of Ubiquity.” Valéry presaged the arrival of streaming services and mass media ...
We are encouraged to see the art world, historically and currently dominated by white male artists, opening up to a much broader array of perspectives, especially here in Baltimore. This ...
Two very kyooooot homunculi—one pink, the other purple—sit on a beach and contemplate, in Russian, the infinite by way of the sand surrounding them. Millions and millions of grains rendered, ...
The BOPA Visual Arts Specialist and ICA Director is always looking for artists just under the radar, who have been making their work here for some time perhaps without a lot of recognition.
Oh, it’s a classic art world choice, isn’t it? Do you want the red curry, or the yellow, or the green? And as you deliberate, you faintly sense—like Neo in ...