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The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 7/2/2023 🔥
Welp, the Supreme Court said “fuck it” this week. This time of year SCOTUS usually hands out decisions on some of its biggest cases and this week was no exception. Released on Thursday, the decision that had the most people talking this week was the court’s 6-3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina to end affirmative action—something the court, and specifically Justice Thomas, has been trying to do for years. All 6 of the justices in the majority opinion were appointed by Republican Presidents.
News: GBCA Announces 2023 Baker Artist Awardees
Press Release: The Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) and the William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund are thrilled to announce the 2023 Baker Artist Awardees. Abdu Ali (Music), Oletha DeVane, (Interdisciplinary Arts), Elizabeth Dickinson (Literary Arts), Colette Krogol (Performance), Margaret Rorison (Film/ Video), and M. Jordan Tierney (Visual Arts) were selected as this year’s awardees following a six-week adjudication process.
The Maryland State Arts Council Triennial: An Immersive Conversation at MAP
The life of cities entails shifting spatial identities. Everything was once something else, especially where art spaces are concerned. The Maryland Art Place building on Saratoga Street has had many different lives in my time in Baltimore. I specifically remember a short-lived stint as Gallery 788 in which the interior was covered in half pipes for skateboarding and BMX riding. In a previous artistic life, the upstairs floors, including the now-closed Terrault Contemporary, were part of the Rooms Fall Apart, an immersive participatory art experience facilitated by the Copycat Theater Collective.
Baltimore News: Judith Scott, LGBTQ+ Protection in Baltimore, Fourth of July Festivities
This week’s news includes: AVAM announces solo exhibition of Judith Scott, a prolific, deaf artist with Down Syndrome, all the Fourth of July Fireworks and Festivities in Baltimore, the Cherry Hill Festival returns, Ghost Signs, Toki Ramen Billboards Challenge the Crabcake, the BMA acquires LaToya Ruby Frazier’s More Than Conquerors, Mayor Brandon Scott signs new LGBtQIA+ Protections at Pride, LGBTQIA+ Hip Hop, Afrofuturism with Myrtis and Terri Lee Freeman, Vee Vee Majesty’s Storytime, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources.
A Case for Action: CPM’s New Edition Project with Luba Drozd
Stepping up to the third floor of Critical Path Method (CPM) Gallery in Bolton Hill, I felt like I was witnessing an underground deal of some kind. Eleven black weatherproof cases sat on simple wooden tables. Most were unlocked, open-casket style, allowing one to browse the available wares. However, the cases did not contain plundered artifacts, illicit substances, or high-powered weaponry; these cases held hunks of granite, looped piano string, and meticulous instructions for assembly.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 27 – July 3
This Week: Bmore Amplified Exhibition at City Hall, virtual artist talk with Alberto Cavalieri, Alyssa Dennis at Connect + Collect, Resident Artist Show opening reception at Motor House, Baynard Woods at Current Space, Station North Art Walk, Art After Hours: The Culture at the BMA — PLUS Digital Inclusion Maker Fellowship at Open Works and more featured opportunities!
Rainbow Connection: Baltimore Gay Pride 2023 Parade Photos
Sunshine and rain, together at the same time, make a rainbow. Right? This year Baltimore’s annual Pride Parade was a blissful love fest of rainbows, with Baltimore and Maryland politicians, corporations, and government agencies in the mix. We had sun, a massive downpour of rain, and more rainbows than anyone could count.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 6/25/23 🔥
The internet was chaotic this week! Highlights: The Titan and The Titanic, orcas, SS Edmund Fitzgerald, a quiet life, Kimora Lee Simons, Moriah Mills, Kesha, and Little Simz. By far, the biggest story on the internet this week was that of Titan, a tourist submersible that imploded on a trip to visit the sunken Titanic. All five people aboard the Titan died. Everything about this story made it perfect internet fodder. Its DIY design skirted all safety regulations. The 250K price tag on the ticket. That the sub had to be bolted from the outside. Its control system was a video game controller. And, that there were, in fact, no windows to actually see the Titanic.
Better Than Bud Light: Twelve Baltimore-based LBGTQ+ Businesses to Support All Year Round
This weekend will be buzzing with Baltimore Pride events, from the Baltimore High Heel Race, Parade, and Block Party on Saturday to the Pride 5k Run/Walk and Pride in the Park at Druid Hill on Sunday. In gearing up to celebrate and cover these capstone events, we have assembled a list of queer-owned and affiliated small businesses flourishing in all corners of Baltimore.
Baltimore News: Walters Workers United, Church Bar, Darienne (Dare) Turner
This week’s news includes: Union unity at The Walters, behind the scenes of Church Bar, the Brooklyn Museum names BMA’s Darienne (Dare) Turner its first-ever full-time curator of Indigenous art, Baltimore Club music, MSGargaritas, an arepa cookbook from Alma Cocina, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, Artnet News, and other local and independent news sources.
Queer-Scape is the Pride Weekend Kick-Off Baltimore’s Art Scene Needed
Baltimore’s busy summer “scape” event calendar just got a little more crowded—and queerer. Queer-Scape will kick off Pride weekend tomorrow, Thursday June 22, at Area 405, with a multimedia evening of visual art, drag, burlesque, music, and a maker market with wares from local LGBTQ+ owned businesses.
Fly, Fabulous, and Comfortable Together: The New Eagle Creek Saloon at STABLE Arts
Over the last several decades, Memorial Day has become synonymous with Black Pride in Washington, D.C. This year, STABLE Arts welcomed the holiday with the opening of Sadie Barnette’s traveling exhibition, New Eagle Creek Saloon (New Eagle). The commemorative installation is named for the first multi-racial queer bar in San Francisco, operated by Barnette’s father, Rodney from 1990 to 1993.
BmoreArt’s Picks: June 20-26
This Week: Qrcky // Damani Washington // Murjoni Merriweather opening reception at Bromo Arts Tower, Pride Film and Poetry Mixer at the Lewis Museum, Julia Glatfelter opening reception at the Peale, Chris Jay at the Walters, Tola’s Room hosts a Puerto Rican summer party, Lania D’Agostinio // Scott G Brooks // Douglas Johnson artist talk at Gallery Blue Door, and the BMA’s Midsummer Night’s Gala — PLUS residency and fellowship deadlines approaching at Pyramid Atlantic and more featured opportunities!
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 6/18/23 🔥
I learned a lot on the internet this week! Highlights: A potter named David Drake, ICWA, the Iowa Supreme Court, Philip Lewis, Black Women Writers, Kiese Laymon on the Second Person, Myrlie Evers, Juneteenth, the war inside psychoanalysis, and the first social media babies are all grown up–and they’re not happy.
Party Photos from the WTMD-WYPR Extravaganza with Dan Deacon
What makes a great party great? At BmoreArt we have strong opinions about events and we take hosting very seriously. A party is about hospitality, making entire groups of people feel welcome and appreciated. It’s also about surprise: not just who you run into or meet, but the combination of a unique place, thoughtfully planned details, and activities that engage the senses and make guests feel genuinely special.
Gallery Round-Up: Building and Breaking from Traditions, Three Exhibitions Offer Intimate Material Explorations
Three new Baltimore exhibitions capture the essence of material inquiries through drawing, collage, painting, and sculpture. The reviews feature Marcel Doucet’s Water Grieves in the Six Shades of Death at Galerie Myrtis, A Sculpture Show at C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Trace Miller’s Pulp Fiction at Goya Contemporary. The...
Baltimore News: Bethesda Painting Awards, Landis Expandis, Planned Parenthood
This week’s news includes: Nicole Santiago wins the Bethesda Painting Awards, Maria Broom’s former students document her life in film, a fundraiser for Landis Expandis, BOPA and FOPA, the Baltimore Guitar Center in Hampden, Hons stand with Planned Parenthood, Hard Histories at JHU and the Walters, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Banner, East City Art, and other local and independent news sources.
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