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BmoreArt’s Picks: December 20-26
This Week: Trixie Little at Ottobar, solstice walk at Cylburn Arboretum, holiday market at Motor House, Die Hard interactive movie night at Creative Alliance, Highlandtown Gallery Holiday Show, and Frederick Arts Council presents The Salon — PLUS MAP’s Call for Entry at Zekes and more featured opportunities. BmoreArt’s...
Getting Into the Spirit with Church Bar
The charming colloquial phrase “bottoms up” has a dual meaning at Church, Old Goucher’s newest cocktail bar and restaurant. Church, which opened this October after much anticipation, is challenging the hospitality industry to think from the bottom up. Owner Chelsea Gregorie, a Baltimore native and award-winning bartender, wants Church to be a place of community where power is truly with the people.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 12/18
The internet was a hot mess this week. Highlights: Dave Chappelle and Elon Musk, Twitter bans journalists, Megan Thee Stallion in court, Hood Rave LA, Video Vixens, Little Simz’s NO THANK YOU, studying catastrophe, contemporary manifestations of ugliness, the conundrum of Italian food, and the cutthroat tactics of the NY Christmas Tree trade.
Baltimore News: Underground Ramen, Deyane Moses, Jaz Erenberg, and Walters Wage Increases
This week’s news includes: museum selfies, Samuel Wallace’s Jamaican pottery, new exhibition on the Underground Railroad at the B&O, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources. Header Image: Toki Underground. The D.C. ramen shop is coming...
BmoreArt’s Picks: December 13-19
This Week: Cheryl Warrick at Academy Art Museum, Reading Douglass opening reception at the Lewis Museum, artist talk with Murjoni Merriweather and Jessica Bastidas at The Walters, BMA Violet Hour discussion with Torkwase Dyson, Jamea Richmond-Edwards and Zoë Charlton led by Jessica Bell Brown, New Generations and Scene Seen receptions at Creative Alliance, opening night for Rosa Leff at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Sankofa Pre-Kwanzaa Celebration at The Peale, and Winterfest Preview at Baltimore Clayworks — PLUS BmoreArt Call for Video Interns and more featured opportunities!
Wearable, Beautiful Vehicles for Communication at the Baltimore Jewelry Center
One of the few contemporary art jewelry galleries in the region, the Baltimore Jewelry Center (BJC) has positioned Baltimore at the forefront of the contemporary art jewelry movement. Offering a wealth of diverse programming—from artist residencies, classes and workshops to exhibitions and symposia—the BJC plays an important role in the professional development of contemporary jewelry artists on an international scale. Artists from across the globe come to the BJC to learn, teach, and exhibit their art jewelry. The BJC also supports jewelry artists by selling their work in their Metal Shop and through several juried sales throughout the year.
Troy Burton’s Theatrical Mixtape
From the idea of an accountability circle, to community conversations, to podcasting, to the stage, Troy Burton’s vision for telling the story of Black men in Baltimore was many years in the making and has only been made possible through conversation and collaboration. It’s a model that Burton hopes...
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 12/10
The internet was Wowowow this week! Keke Palmer is pregnant. The Peruvian president was ousted and arrested. And R. Kelly released an album, ‘I Admit It’, from prison. Free AppleTV via Will Smith. Highlights: Brittney Griner freed, Palestine wins the World Cup, the New School strike, SZA, Julia Bullock, Trevor Noah leaves The Daily Show, the art market, AI art, and the evolution of the thylacoleo.
Memento mori at The Parlor: Baltimore’s Newest Art Space in a Former Funeral Home
Station North’s newest art venue opened to enthusiastic crowds on Friday, November 18 in a large brownstone that operated as a funeral home from 1914 through 2006. The building at 108 W. North Avenue has now been christened The Parlor by new owner John Renner, who plans to renovate the space in the future to include artist studios and a restaurant.
Baltimore News: Rebecca Hoffberger, Adam Frank, Sheri Booker
This week’s news includes: Rebecca Alban Hoffberger reimagines the Inner Harbor, BmoreArt’s Cara Ober profiled, John Waters’ best films of 2022, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources. Header Image: Inside of the bookstore Bird...
Ed Hrybyk: A Jazz Bassist Buoyed by Bright Moments
Once I was at a party and heard a man declare that live music was dead. As a touring musician and concert organizer, I had to interject. “No it isn’t! There are shows happening all the time!”. “Then tell me where I can go see some live jazz...
BmoreArt’s Picks: December 6-12
This Week: Nada Average Tuesday at Motor House, Towson University Holiday Art + Pottery Sale, Ballet After Dark’s Black Luxury Ball at Eubie Blake, Under $500 at MAP, Art After Hours at the BMA, BREAKING CODES at SNF Parkway, Holiday Heap at 2640, Current Art Market, Mount Royal Merry Mart, Station North Holiday Market, Gallery CA Holiday Art Market, and BmoreArt Open House at Connect + Collect — PLUS The Ashby M. Larmore Fellowship at MCHC and more featured opportunities!
Photos from the 2022 Baltimore Mayor’s Christmas Parade
Is there a better way to appreciate Baltimore’s mix of dignified, artistic, and oddball culture than the Mayor’s Christmas Parade? An array of solemn military, ecstatic performance, and determined advocacy groups, this one-of-a-kind event is peppered with beautiful moments of inspiration, connection, and weirdness, and a celebration of a city that is truly accepting of all kinds of authentic creative efforts.
The Internet is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 12/4
Perhaps I’m just online more, but it feels like the internet has been increasingly active the past few weeks. Christine McVie passed. Kanye West continues his anti-semitic and anti-Black rampage. Highlights: Hibernation and colonization, Railroad Workers United, killer robots, Twitter, ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘Queen Sugar,’ Keke Palmer and Angela Bassett, disappearing whales, JLo can’t sing, and Anna Weynat’s bio.
Gallery Roundup: The Parlor, C. Grimaldis Gallery, and Catalyst Contemporary
This month three stellar group shows opened in Baltimore that reminded me of the art scene’s capacity to surprise and delight in totally different ways. From living artists reflecting on death at a pop-up in a former funeral parlor to discovering paintings that still feel fresh from the city’s most dearly departed artists at its most established gallery, the exhibitions on view this month defy the stereotype that the arts hibernate over the holidays.
Baltimore News: Brandon Woody, ‘3 Blind Mice,’ The Great Migration
This week’s news includes: Trumpeter Brandon Woody, Black boating on the Chesapeake, sewing your own clothes, Scott vetoes pension bill, and more reporting from Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Beat, Baltimore Banner, Baltimore Magazine, and other local and independent news sources. Header Image: Trumpeter Brandon Woody stands for a portrait before...
Building Blocks of Narratives: New Solo Exhibits by Kei Ito and R.L. Tillman
Artists have always explored, recorded, and memorialized war in paintings, sculpture, and more recently, in photography. One of the earliest instances of wartime documentary photography is Roger Fenton, who chronicled the Crimean War in 1855 with a mobile darkroom. During the First and Second World Wars, the British Imperial War Museum commissioned artists, such as John Singer Sargent, to archive the efforts of the American and British troops.
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