Visual Art

Visual Art

Maren Hassinger’s retrospective The Spirit of Things at the Baltimore Museum of Art not only validates her career but indicates something about our current political moment. by Cara Ober *Originally ...

DC-Based Artist Brian Dailey Confronts the Overlaps Between Art and Politics With a Career in Government and International Negotiations by Juliana Biondo Brian Dailey’s artistic trajectory is as fascinating as it is curious. ...

AfriCOBRA: The Evolution of a Movement at Galerie Myrtis by Angela N. Carroll “And then the dreamer’s dreamer had his balloon busted on a Memphis motel balcony. And that was ...

Cara Ober Interviews with Pope of Trash at his retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art

Indecent Exposure offers a distinctly Waters-esqe aesthetic and campy humor, with hundreds of images collaged from myriad film stills, as well as photography, sculpture, sound work, video, and a flower photo that will squirt water if you come too close.

Queer(ing) Pleasure at the DC Arts Center reviewed by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani In Michel Foucault’s first volume of The History of Sexuality (1978), the French social anthropologist stated that “the rallying point ...

An Interview with Phaan Howng on the Grand Finale of her Bombastic, Over the Top, Interactive Installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Cara Ober When the Baltimore Museum ...

Dawoud Bey's The Birmingham Project by Kerr Houston The episode was so grim, so barbaric, that it seems almost unimaginable. On a September Sunday in 1963, four members of the Ku Klux ...

A New Artists U Survey Aims to Help Artists Get the Resources They Need by Andrew Simonet No one knows how artists are doing. How do artists survive and thrive? ...

BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and ...

Considering Paul Daniel: Acknowledging The Wind at Ladew Topiary Gardens by Timothy App At this juncture in time, art that deals with pure form, aesthetically inspired phenomena, and sheer beauty ...

Helina Metaferia: Refiguring the Canon at Hamiltonian Gallery by Angela N. Carroll “Like the societies themselves, contemporary art objects produced in Africa are considered inauthentic approximations of traditional forms, sullied, ...

Revisiting Joyce J. Scott's Largest Public Art Project, The Memorial Pool at Druid Hill Park by Graham Coreil-Allen Editor's Note: This essay was originally Published in What Weekly January 8, 2014. We ...

Kuba: Fabric of an Empire at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Kerr Houston There’s little question that the Kuba textiles currently on view in one of the BMA’s Cone Collection ...

An Interview with Tavares Strachan about his new neon commission at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Cara Ober I met NY-based conceptual artist Tavares Strachan by accident at a ...

An Interview with Dread Scott by Joseph del Pesco From 1920 through 1938, the NAACP used to hang a flag outside their New York headquarters the day after someone was lynched. ...

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