Art:
MICA professor Timothy App uses simple forms to evoke imagery both universal and personal
By Marcus Civin
5/22/2013
Art:
Hidenori Ishii captures Fukushima disaster in acrylic paintings
By Baynard Woods
4/17/2013
Art:
Baltimore art spaces continue to impress
By Baynard Woods
4/17/2013
Art:
Conor Backman’s philosophical puzzles fool the I
By Baynard Woods
4/10/2013
Art:
Richard Caton Woodville lived fast, died young, and left some beautiful paintings
By Baynard Woods
4/3/2013
Art:
The Walters’ Ben Ezra ark door begs for context
By Evan Serpick
3/27/2013
Art:
Sophiajacob show examines nature of humor in art
By Jasmine Sarp
3/27/2013
Art:
Contemporary Photography from Iran
By Bret McCabe
3/20/2013
Art:
Four artists explore our interactions and connections with strangers
By Michael Farley
3/13/2013
Art:
Walking into Bohemian Coffee House on North Charles Street, one may recognize a few faces from around Station North
By Baynard Woods
3/13/2013
Art:
BMA shows how Max Weber brought modernism to America
By Baynard Woods
3/6/2013
Art:
Hasan Elahi turns surveillance into art
By Michael Farley
2/20/2013
Art:
Open Space show examines freedom, pleasure, and morality
By Michael Farley
2/13/2013
Art:
Interactive show at Creative Alliance investigates our relationship to maps, space, and each other.
By Bret McCabe
2/6/2013
Art:
Raoul Middleman’s bold new work recalls a long-gone era
By Baynard Woods
2/6/2013
Art:
Artist explores adventure, endurance in walk from Baltimore to Washington
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
1/30/2013
Art:
Local artist changes perspective
By Michael Farley
1/16/2013
Art:
The City Art Building’s gallery steps up its game
By Baynard Woods
1/9/2013
Art:
James Singewald attempts to document history through Baltimore’s abandoned buildings
By Brandon Weigel
1/2/2013
Art:
Lisa Dillin talks about making “products” that mimic our longing for nature
By Baynard Woods
1/2/2013
Art:
Featuring the works of Baltimore’s Lisa Dillin and New York’s Matthew Northridge
By Baynard Woods
1/2/2013
Art:
Two shows highlight gallery’s elegant new space
By Baynard Woods
12/26/2012
Art:
Current Gallery show centers around private obsessions
By Baynard Woods
12/19/2012
Art:
Jack W. Schneider’s show explores the color scheme of 1980s America
By By Baynard Woods
12/12/2012
Art:
Collaborative show shines light on the blurred lines of modern life
By By Baynard Woods
12/5/2012
Art:
Two shows place experience above image
By Bret McCabe
11/28/2012
Art:
Old meets new in ambitious Contemporary Wing
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
11/21/2012
Art:
Guest Spot’s new show takes inclusive view of culture
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
11/7/2012
Art:
Walters explores the role of Africans in the world of Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci
By Evan Serpick
10/24/2012
Art:
Joyce Scott’s solo show contorts identities
By Marcus Civin
10/17/2012
Art:
New AVAM show draws on stories dark and light
By Geoffrey Himes
10/10/2012
Art:
Open Space show mines 1970s sci-fi speculation
By Bret McCabe
9/26/2012
Art:
Post Typography explores patriotism, war, and baseball in OSAYCANYOUSEE
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
9/5/2012
Art:
Doreen Bolger talks about the reopening of the BMA’s Contemporary Wing and its place in the city’s art ecosystem
By Baynard Woods
8/29/2012
Art:
Kristen Hileman, the BMA’s curator of contemporary art, brings new work to the collection
By Baynard Woods
8/29/2012
Art:
Alix Ayme’s art explores a world in upheaval
By Marcus Civin
8/29/2012
Art:
Current Space, Zim Zum, Nudashank, David Kaufmann, and more
8/29/2012
Art:
Baltimore artist attacks social issues with life casting
By Matt Kelley
8/8/2012
Art:
Gallery Four goes wild
By Baynard Woods
8/8/2012
Art:
C. Grimaldis highlights some of Maryland’s biggest names in art
By Jasmine Sarp
7/31/2012
Art:
Jim Lucio brings the wonders of the open road to this year’s Artscape
By Jenn Ladd
7/18/2012
Art:
Artists transform Station North garage into a national park for Artscape
By Charles Cohen
7/18/2012
Art:
Artscape has so many satellite galleries you could spend the whole weekend running from one to the next. View the works of artists from all over the world at Area 405, with their exhibit Go West. They’re featuring artists from France, Finland, Germany, Sc
By Lauren Murray
7/18/2012
Art:
Looking back on the first decade of the Charm City Art Space
By Michael Byrne
7/4/2012
Art:
The Afro’s anniversary prompts re-examination of the African-American 20th century experience
By Evan Serpick
7/4/2012
Art:
Terry Thompson’s paintings draw on his days as a Baltimore club DJ
By Bret Mccabe
6/27/2012
Art:
What happens when the Walters asks the public to curate a show?
By Max Robinson
6/20/2012
Art:
A raucous pop-art exhibition paints the town red
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
6/6/2012
Art:
A quiet, meditative exhibition forgoes the acute angles in favor of rectangular forms and a comfortable symmetry
By Alex Ebstein
5/30/2012
Art:
Collaborative exhibit emphasizes the importance of water
By Baynard Woods
5/9/2012
Art:
D’metrius Rice’s first solo show includes work made in the aftermath of a brutal beating
By Bret McCabe
5/9/2012
Art:
A local photographer talks about documenting the survivors of the toughest marathon in the world
By Lee Gardner
5/2/2012
Art:
An exhibition of local printmakers demonstrates the dazzling possibilities of the medium
By Andrea Appleton
5/2/2012
Art:
Using Globe Poster’s classic letterpress tools, Trenton Doyle Hancock gives the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair a fresh new look
By Andrea Appleton
4/25/2012
Art:
Most Baltimoreans remain unfamiliar with Morgan State’s ambitious arts venue, now a decade old
By Lionel Foster
4/25/2012
Art:
Goucher College exhibition explores the hidden realm of the interpersonal
By Alex Ebstein
4/25/2012
Art:
A peek inside a museum that time—and nearly everybody else—forgot
By Andrea Appleton
4/18/2012
Art:
A new exhibition attempts to explore the idea of boundaries
By Andrea Appleton
4/11/2012
Art:
A UMBC exhibition uses modern technology to make magic
By Andrea Appleton
4/4/2012
Art:
Exhibition celebrates the allure of the arduously handmade
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
3/28/2012
Art:
An army of black dandies storms the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
By Lionel Foster
3/14/2012
Art:
Impressive show by a rookie curator focuses on repetition
By Andrea Appleton
3/14/2012
Art:
Mark Chester’s witty photo pairings have a curious resonance
By Michelle Gienow
3/7/2012
Art:
Local artist uses images of consumerism to deliver a scathing critique
By Bret McCabe
2/29/2012
Art:
Gallery show examines the relationship between art, marketing, and even art marketing
By Lee Gardner
2/22/2012
Art:
A richly varied collection of pre-Columbian art comes to the Walters
By Andrea Appleton
2/15/2012
Art:
A UMBC MFA exhibition dazzles with its scope, quality, and sense of fun
By Andrea Appleton
2/8/2012
Art:
A new exhibition unpacks the term “construct” and manages to delight
By Andrea Appleton
2/1/2012
Art:
Latest MICA Exhibition Development Seminar exhibit explores the
shrinking margins of personal space
By Andrea Appleton
2/1/2012
Art:
Solo show includes every piece the artist still owns
By Andrea Appleton
1/18/2012
Art:
An African art exhibition celebrates the beauty in everyday objects
By Andrea Appleton
1/11/2012
Art:
Boi wonder sees the world through jewel-covered glasses
By Baynard Woods
1/4/2012
Art:
The Contemporary Museum engages the transitory with an exhibit at Penn Station
By Baynard Woods
12/28/2011
Art:
Meticulously rejuvenating paintings, inch by inch
By Andrea Appleton
12/28/2011
Art:
The humble materials in Ahn’s work help preserve an approachable quality
By Lee Gardner
12/21/2011
Art:
An exhibition celebrates the possibilities inherent in a dish towel
By Andrea Appleton
12/21/2011
Art:
Group show is both entertaining and bewitching
By Andrea Appleton
12/14/2011
Art:
A collective hopes to invigorate Baltimore’s photography scene
By Andrea Appleton
12/7/2011
Art:
The arts community bids farewell to Nancy Haragan
By Bret McCabe
12/7/2011
Art:
Exhibition explores possibilities and perils of the images that flood our lives
By Andrea Appleton
11/30/2011
Art:
Discovery of the ancient document has captivated audiences; the text itself, not so much
By Baynard Woods
11/23/2011
Art:
Benjamin Kelley conveys the dark side of mechanized production
By Alex Ebstein
11/23/2011
Art:
A new exhibit on links between African-Americans and Native Americans sidesteps controversy
By Andrea Appleton
11/16/2011
Art:
New Guest Spot show explores the phenomenon of borders
By Chloe Helton-Gallagher
11/9/2011
Art:
Baltimore Museum of Art show pays homage to prints made in series
By Andrea Appleton
11/9/2011
Art:
Bromo Seltzer Tower clock room transformed into an installation through Dec. 12
By Baynard Woods
11/2/2011
Art:
A new Jewish Museum exhibit ruminates about food
By Andrea Appleton
10/26/2011
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
Art:
AVAM’s focus on a common shape allows for a multitude of fascinating pieces
By Geoffrey Himes
10/12/2011
Art:
Former Creative Alliance resident artist Joseph Norman is back, with a massive mural of the slave trade
By Baynard Woods
9/28/2011
Art:
Artist Dustin Carlson fabricates icons of the American Dream
By Andrea Appleton
9/14/2011
Art:
Visual-art winners stand out in Baker Artist Awards exhibition
By Alex Ebstein
9/14/2011
Art:
Two artists speak to one another through their drawings
By Andrea Appleton
8/31/2011
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
Art:
Maryland Art Place's MFA exhibit showcases solid work alongside lesser efforts
By Alex Ebstein
7/27/2011
Art:
However you want to categorize it, zeitgeist-y art highlights Contemporary show
By Alex Ebstein
7/20/2011
Art:
John Ruppert uses man-made objects to pay homage to nature
By Alex Ebstein
7/13/2011
Art:
Visionary artist explores the struggles of African-Americans and Jews
By Geoffrey Himes
7/6/2011
Art:
DUOX breaks out of the art-show same-old same-old
By Alex Ebstein
6/15/2011
Art:
Latest Exhibition Development Seminar examines Baltimore’s user experience
By Bret McCabe
5/11/2011
Art:
Dancers recreate video-game worlds in this surreal production
By Bret McCabe
5/4/2011
Art:
Group exhibition asks you to consider the plight of refugees, exiles, and migrants
By Andrea Appleton
4/20/2011
Quick Sketches:
The works of Ruth Pettus and roycrosse complement each other in Area 405’s Conventions
By Bret McCabe
4/20/2011
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art:
Group show aims to examine the visual language of historical moments
By Bret McCabe
3/30/2011
Art:
Once-detained artist watches himself better than the government watchers
By Michael Byrne
3/30/2011
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
Art:
Working through memory’s visual language in a pair of MICA exhibitions
By Bret McCabe
3/9/2011
Art:
Debra Rubino and Jenee Mateer search for the unnameable in the barely there
By Bret McCabe
3/2/2011
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
Art:
An ambitious exhibition aims to put African-American women back into history
By Andrea Appleton
1/12/2011
Art:
Israeli photographer's work flirts with painting’s interpretive realism
By Martin L. Johnson
12/22/2010
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
Art:
Michael Economos' paintings subtly reveal his life and times
By Bret McCabe
12/8/2010
Art:
Justin Price invites you into a world of comic playfulness
By Bret McCabe
11/24/2010
Art:
The MICA professor on food systems, ecology, and the "Baltimore Food Ecology Documentary" project
By Bret McCabe
11/17/2010
Art:
Guyton\Walker’s new show finds them between one artistic and another
By Bret McCabe
11/10/2010
Art:
Considering what makes a life in the company of René Treviño's men
By Bret McCabe
11/3/2010
Art:
Goya showcases three artists who come up with fascinating wholes
By Bret McCabe
10/27/2010
Art:
AVAM's latest big show explores the creative wizardry of turning trash into treasures
By Geoffrey Himes
10/13/2010
Art:
Photographer Ben Gest digitally distorts human proportions to turn portraiture into psychological mirrors
By alex ebstein
10/6/2010
Art:
Group show surveys the video medium's mercurial nature
By Martin L. Johnson
9/29/2010
Art:
New Reggie exhibit explores intellectual and artistic connections between blacks and Jews
By Bret McCabe
9/15/2010
Art:
Group show examines what we look at when we look at landscapes
By Martin L. Johnson
8/25/2010
The Arts:
What Weekly seeks to eliminate the negative and support local arts
By Hannah Bruchman
8/18/2010
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