New exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum emphasizes food and all its...
One of the most appealing aspects of the American Visionary Art Museum has been the way it has democratized art. Here was a museum saying you didn't need art-school credentials to make legitimate...
View ArticleStephen Towns takes on myth and martyrdom in Nat Turner's rebellion for his...
In his studio at Area 405, mixed media artist Stephen Towns stands at his easel, surveying a painting. Warm, iridescent amber light pours in through the windows. Dried oil paint dots wooden...
View ArticleOn separating hunter from prey in Phaan Howng's wryly subversive installation...
Phaan Howng's "Biological Controls: If It Bleeds We Can Kill It" may be the closest you can get to a waking hallucination in Baltimore right now. The installation occupies the one-room project gallery...
View ArticleThe Year in Photos
We're not gonna lie, we're happy to see the tail end of 2016. This particularly tumultuous year began with a massive snow dump in the city that stranded residents and threatened the city's homeless...
View ArticleTop Ten Art Shows of 2016
1. Abigail DeVille, “Only When It’s Dark Enough Can You See the Stars” via The Contemporary at the Peale Museum There is always more to say about this work, an installation by Abigail DeVille in the...
View Article"About Face" at the Creative Alliance carves out room for a new kind of...
While I was observing a T-shaped portrait of an afroed woman who stares off into the distance, I overheard a conversation a man was having with his friend about the artist, Tim Okamura. "I was just...
View ArticlePhotographer Shawn Young sees Baltimore differently
I sat on North Avenue one afternoon in mid-October during an abnormally hot day, the kind when global warming smirks at us, specifically Baltimore. I was there to catch up with Sandtown-Winchester...
View ArticleDelineate It Yourself: After the Bell Foundry, mayor's Safe Arts Space Task...
Within a few weeks of Station North arts space the Bell Foundry being condemned and its upstairs tenants evicted, Mayor Catherine Pugh stood in front of members of city agencies, artists and artist...
View ArticleKahlon's Cut Up Series returns with audio-visual exhibition
When Kahlon ceased to exist in its capacity as a bimonthly party at The Crown, it felt like a blow to the city's music scene, which was finally starting to feel a bit less siloed. That was due to the...
View ArticleScary Monsters and Super Creeps: Dundalk comics legend Bernie Wrightson retires
Late last month, Dundalk boy and ghoulish comics hero Bernie Wrightson announced his retirement via Facebook. The message, written by his wife Liz Wrightson, reads in part: "Last November Bernie began...
View ArticleColonizers at the center of "Shifting Views" at the Baltimore Museum of Art
"Shifting Views" is the Baltimore Museum of Art's first exhibition of contemporary African art. Works by Senam Okudzeto, Diane Victor, Julie Mehretu, William Kentridge, Gavin Jantjes, Robin Rhode, and...
View ArticleAs photographer and curator, Mickalene Thomas redefines the artist's muse
She reclines on a low-rising sofa upholstered by a hodgepodge of vintage textiles: gingham, groovy waves, florals and leaf patterns that echo the ficuses and ferns and cheap fake flowers that surround...
View ArticleGroup show at Gallery CA explores the many facets of identity
I put on the headphones that are part of Joyce Yu-Jean Lee's 'Red vs. Blue Polarity,' in the group show "Whatchamacallit" at Gallery CA, and a noisy barrage of cameras clicking and flashes flying is...
View ArticleWickerham & Lomax remix and reimagine stories and styles from Odell's nightclub
Artist duo Daniel Wickerham and Malcolm Lomax were all of six years old when Odell's closed in 1992. The North Avenue dance club, opened in 1976 by Odell Brock, became Baltimore's legendary hot spot...
View ArticleMondawmin residents reflect on illumination and safety with light sculpture...
Think about the light that illuminates your community and how it makes you feel. When you see red and blue flashing lights, do you feel calm or anxiety? Do the light poles in your neighborhood bear...
View Article"The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler...
Visual Merchandising: "The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler Brothers Palace Visual Merchandising "The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the...
View Article"The Ground" takes on origins, labor, commerce, and legacy at the Hutzler...
I. The river Amazon is a river. It is an extremely long and voluminous river. Passing through areas of bio-diversity, it is a good name for a company which sells books and diverse other products, this...
View ArticleSelfie Obliteration: On Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Mirrors" and radical...
A line spirals out from the fountain and wraps around the interior perimeter of the "Brutalist donut" that is the Hirshhorn Museum, spilling out onto the plaza beside the National Mall. Several...
View ArticleDevin N. Morris creates imaginative spaces and softens structure in solo...
In his essay 'Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood,' James Baldwin writes about how the "American ideal" of sexuality and masculinity "has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys,...
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