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<em>Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers</em>

Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers

Books: The Louvin Brothers' rise and fall as a unit and an act rightly forms the substance of Charlie's lively recollection By Lee Gardner 2/1/2012
<em>Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty</em>

Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty

Books: Even the shortest of short stories have to make the reader care By Rupert Wondolowski 2/1/2012
<em>Construct</em>

Construct

Art: A new exhibition unpacks the term “construct” and manages to delight By Andrea Appleton 2/1/2012
<em>Under Cover</em>

Under Cover

Art: Latest MICA Exhibition Development Seminar exhibit explores the shrinking margins of personal space By Andrea Appleton 2/1/2012
<em>The Iceman Cometh</em>

The Iceman Cometh

Stage: A brilliantly staged classic pulls back the covers on our dreams By Andrea Appleton 2/1/2012
Visual Arts Stories
<em>Construct</em>

Construct

Art: A new exhibition unpacks the term “construct” and manages to delight By Andrea Appleton 2/1/2012
<em>Under Cover</em>

Under Cover

Art: Latest MICA Exhibition Development Seminar exhibit explores the shrinking margins of personal space By Andrea Appleton 2/1/2012
Lou Joseph: <em>Search Engine</em>

Lou Joseph: Search Engine

Art: Solo show includes every piece the artist still owns By Andrea Appleton 1/18/2012
<em>Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa</em>

Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa

Art: An African art exhibition celebrates the beauty in everyday objects By Andrea Appleton 1/11/2012
Baltimore Designer Stevie Boi

Baltimore Designer Stevie Boi

Art: Boi wonder sees the world through jewel-covered glasses By Baynard Woods 1/4/2012
<em>Moving Right Along</em>

Moving Right Along

Art: The Contemporary Museum engages the transitory with an exhibit at Penn Station By Baynard Woods 12/28/2011
Mary Sebera, Senior Painting Conservator at the BMA

Mary Sebera, Senior Painting Conservator at the BMA

Art: Meticulously rejuvenating paintings, inch by inch By Andrea Appleton 12/28/2011
Chul Hyun Ahn explores the <em>Infinite Void</em>

Chul Hyun Ahn explores the Infinite Void

Art: The humble materials in Ahn’s work help preserve an approachable quality By Lee Gardner 12/21/2011
<em>The Common Object</em>

The Common Object

Art: An exhibition celebrates the possibilities inherent in a dish towel By Andrea Appleton 12/21/2011
<em>Strange Magic</em>

Strange Magic

Art: Group show is both entertaining and bewitching By Andrea Appleton 12/14/2011
<em>Fields of Vision</em>

Fields of Vision

Art: A collective hopes to invigorate Baltimore’s photography scene By Andrea Appleton 12/7/2011
Arts Advocate Nancy Haragan Passes

Arts Advocate Nancy Haragan Passes

Art: The arts community bids farewell to Nancy Haragan By Bret McCabe 12/7/2011
<em>Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture </em>

Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture

Art: Exhibition explores possibilities and perils of the images that flood our lives By Andrea Appleton 11/30/2011
<em>Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes</em>

Lost and Found: The Secrets of Archimedes

Art: Discovery of the ancient document has captivated audiences; the text itself, not so much By Baynard Woods 11/23/2011
<em>Riches and Ruin</em>

Riches and Ruin

Art: Benjamin Kelley conveys the dark side of mechanized production By Alex Ebstein 11/23/2011
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas

Art: A new exhibit on links between African-Americans and Native Americans sidesteps controversy By Andrea Appleton 11/16/2011
<em>Boundary Proof</em>

Boundary Proof

Art: New Guest Spot show explores the phenomenon of borders By Chloe Helton-Gallagher 11/9/2011
<em>Print by Print: Series From Dürer to Lichtenstein</em>

Print by Print: Series From Dürer to Lichtenstein

Art: Baltimore Museum of Art show pays homage to prints made in series By Andrea Appleton 11/9/2011
Artist Kelley Bell uses animations and projections to light up Baltimore’s architecture

Artist Kelley Bell uses animations and projections to light up Baltimore’s architecture

Art: Bromo Seltzer Tower clock room transformed into an installation through Dec. 12 By Baynard Woods 11/2/2011
Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and American Jewish Identity

Chosen Food: Cuisine, Culture and American Jewish Identity

Art: A new Jewish Museum exhibit ruminates about food By Andrea Appleton 10/26/2011
EMP Collective launches a new space meant to incubate art in all its forms

EMP Collective launches a new space meant to incubate art in all its forms

Art: New art space on a secluded block near 1st Mariner Arena is not as cryptic a project as it might seem. By Andrea Appleton 10/19/2011
<em>All Things Round: Galaxies, Eyeballs and Karma</em>

All Things Round: Galaxies, Eyeballs and Karma

Art: AVAM’s focus on a common shape allows for a multitude of fascinating pieces By Geoffrey Himes 10/12/2011
Return Passage

Return Passage

Art: Former Creative Alliance resident artist Joseph Norman is back, with a massive mural of the slave trade By Baynard Woods 9/28/2011
A Man, a Plan, a Planer

A Man, a Plan, a Planer

Art: Artist Dustin Carlson fabricates icons of the American Dream By Andrea Appleton 9/14/2011
Creative Differences

Creative Differences

Art: Visual-art winners stand out in Baker Artist Awards exhibition By Alex Ebstein 9/14/2011
<em>Disorderly Construct</em>

Disorderly Construct

Art: Two artists speak to one another through their drawings By Andrea Appleton 8/31/2011
Current\

Current's C A R T exhibit offers another take on the art market

Art: Advertising ambiguous products and remarkable deals, it makes it hard to tell exactly what lies on the other side of the gallery’s windows. By Alex Ebstein 8/17/2011
All Over the Map

All Over the Map

Art: Maryland Art Place's MFA exhibit showcases solid work alongside lesser efforts By Alex Ebstein 7/27/2011
Shenanigans

Shenanigans

Art: However you want to categorize it, zeitgeist-y art highlights Contemporary show By Alex Ebstein 7/20/2011
Unnatural Nature

Unnatural Nature

Art: John Ruppert uses man-made objects to pay homage to nature By Alex Ebstein 7/13/2011
Loring Cornish: In Each Other\

Loring Cornish: In Each Other's Shoes

Art: Visionary artist explores the struggles of African-Americans and Jews By Geoffrey Himes 7/6/2011
Dynamic Duo

Dynamic Duo

Art: DUOX breaks out of the art-show same-old same-old By Alex Ebstein 6/15/2011
<em>Baltimore: Open City</em>

Baltimore: Open City

Art: Latest Exhibition Development Seminar examines Baltimore’s user experience By Bret McCabe 5/11/2011
Power Moves Forever Quest

Power Moves Forever Quest

Art: Dancers recreate video-game worlds in this surreal production By Bret McCabe 5/4/2011
<em>Where Do We Migrate</em>

Where Do We Migrate

Art: Group exhibition asks you to consider the plight of refugees, exiles, and migrants By Andrea Appleton 4/20/2011
Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches: The works of Ruth Pettus and roycrosse complement each other in Area 405’s Conventions By Bret McCabe 4/20/2011
Points of View

Points of View

Art: Sixty-six artists, 243 photos, and the innumerable stories suggested by the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960 By Bret McCabe 4/6/2011
Philip-Lorca diCorcia: “Tokyo”

Philip-Lorca diCorcia: “Tokyo”

Art: The first time I saw this, the first time I saw his work in particular, I was just, “Damn you for thinking this first.” Because this is what I do in clubs. By Frank Hamilton 4/6/2011
Garry Winogrand: “Women Are Beautiful” series

Garry Winogrand: “Women Are Beautiful” series

Art: It’s kind of like the creepy factor. You’ve got to be the guy creeping along taking pictures of women—that’s why I don’t do it. By Ben Cricchi 4/6/2011
Danny Lyon: “Conversations With the Dead” series

Danny Lyon: “Conversations With the Dead” series

Art: When you see Danny Lyon’s penitentiary series or you see the series he did on bikers, these are things that take a long time to do—speaking from experience. By Jefferson Jackson Steele 4/6/2011
Edward Burtynsky: “Silver Lake Operations #14, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia”

Edward Burtynsky: “Silver Lake Operations #14, Lake Lefroy, Western Australia”

Art: This struck me because when I walked into the gallery, and I’m sure this was intentional, it looks like an abstract painting and I thought, “That’s weird—what’s this doing here?” By Josh Sisk 4/6/2011
Carrie Mae Weems: “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried” and “House/Field/Yard/Kitchen”

Carrie Mae Weems: “From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried” and “House/Field/Yard/Kitchen”

Art: What struck me at first was how proud and regal-looking the African woman is, and then her cousins, sisters, what have you—the distant family that come here, they look in limbo. By RaRah 4/6/2011
Lee Friedlander: “New Mexico”

Lee Friedlander: “New Mexico”

Art: When I used to teach photography, this one I used to use for my students just to show a bunch of things. By Michael Northrup 4/6/2011
Emmet Gowin: “Toutle River Valley in Area of Mount Saint Helens”

Emmet Gowin: “Toutle River Valley in Area of Mount Saint Helens”

Art: I think he first started photographing his family—shots of his wife and her family, soft around the edges, vignetted, black and white. By Christopher Myers 4/6/2011
Marco Breuer: “Shot (C-917)”

Marco Breuer: “Shot (C-917)”

Art: I’m sure every darkroom photographer has thought about taking a shotgun to everything. But to actually do it is just genius. By Sam Holden 4/6/2011
<em>Agitated Histories</em>

Agitated Histories

Art: Group show aims to examine the visual language of historical moments By Bret McCabe 3/30/2011
Hasan Elahi

Hasan Elahi

Art: Once-detained artist watches himself better than the government watchers By Michael Byrne 3/30/2011
The Marquee Ball

The Marquee Ball

Art: Either the 1980s are genuinely back—again—or people who had to endure that decade the first time around are now in positions where they get to brand things. By Bret McCabe 3/30/2011
A Matter of Perception

A Matter of Perception

Art: Working through memory’s visual language in a pair of MICA exhibitions By Bret McCabe 3/9/2011
Little Unknowns

Little Unknowns

Art: Debra Rubino and Jenee Mateer search for the unnameable in the barely there By Bret McCabe 3/2/2011
Hail Satan

Hail Satan

Art: Group show harnesses the unlimited imagination unlocked by what we think about when we think about rock stardom By Bret McCabe 2/2/2011
Extraordinary Lives

Extraordinary Lives

Art: An ambitious exhibition aims to put African-American women back into history By Andrea Appleton 1/12/2011
Dovrat Amsily-Barak: <em>Déjà Vu</em> at the C. Grimaldis Gallery

Dovrat Amsily-Barak: Déjà Vu at the C. Grimaldis Gallery

Art: Israeli photographer's work flirts with painting’s interpretive realism By Martin L. Johnson 12/22/2010
The Year in Art

The Year in Art

Top Ten: Unlike last year’s Laure Drogoul: Follies, Predicaments and Other Conundrums at the Maryland Institute College of Art or 2008’s Franz West, To Build a House You Start With the Roof: Work 1972-2008 at the Baltimore Museum of Art, there wasn’t one exhibitio 12/8/2010
Breaking the Surface

Breaking the Surface

Art: Michael Economos' paintings subtly reveal his life and times By Bret McCabe 12/8/2010
Functional Absurdity

Functional Absurdity

Art: Justin Price invites you into a world of comic playfulness By Bret McCabe 11/24/2010
Hugh Pocock

Hugh Pocock

Art: The MICA professor on food systems, ecology, and the "Baltimore Food Ecology Documentary" project By Bret McCabe 11/17/2010
In Process

In Process

Art: Guyton\Walker’s new show finds them between one artistic and another By Bret McCabe 11/10/2010
History Lessons

History Lessons

Art: Considering what makes a life in the company of René Treviño's men By Bret McCabe 11/3/2010
Speaking Parts

Speaking Parts

Art: Goya showcases three artists who come up with fascinating wholes By Bret McCabe 10/27/2010
God Don\

God Don't Make No Junk

Art: AVAM's latest big show explores the creative wizardry of turning trash into treasures By Geoffrey Himes 10/13/2010
Size Matters

Size Matters

Art: Photographer Ben Gest digitally distorts human proportions to turn portraiture into psychological mirrors By alex ebstein 10/6/2010
Place Evaders

Place Evaders

Art: Group show surveys the video medium's mercurial nature By Martin L. Johnson 9/29/2010
Common Cause

Common Cause

Art: New Reggie exhibit explores intellectual and artistic connections between blacks and Jews By Bret McCabe 9/15/2010
Chewing the Scenery

Chewing the Scenery

Art: Group show examines what we look at when we look at landscapes By Martin L. Johnson 8/25/2010
Accentuate the Positive

Accentuate the Positive

The Arts: What Weekly seeks to eliminate the negative and support local arts By Hannah Bruchman 8/18/2010
Otakon 2010 Impressions

Otakon 2010 Impressions

Photofeature: If you are anything like me, you know a little bit about Otakon. Maybe you drive by it each year and are baffled by all the costumes—some odd and outlandish, others very familiar... By Josh Sisk 8/3/2010

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