Critical Review

Critical Review

Susan Sontag created a sprawling and unwieldy definition in 58 points published in 1964 which inspired the Met's Costume Institute’s current exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion

If you have never encountered the concept of camp before, but saw some of the pictures of what the glitterati were wearing to the Met Gala, you might be forgiven for thinking it had something to do with ruffles, feathers, and general absurdity in fashion.

What happens to a city that can’t even imagine itself differently in the medium of film?

Jencso manipulates our attention to be just as glued to the devices as the girl in the image appears to be.

International Art English has enforced a hermeticism of contemporary art that is not particularly healthy

As a pragmatist and the editor of an independent publication that collaborates with artist groups and cultural institutions, I see so much room for improvement in the language and accessibility employed to attract new audiences

Joy Davis, Jessica Douglas, and Lawrence Burney demonstrate the possibilities of dynamic archival work

I felt completely okay shedding a few tears in the Dispersive Archives exhibition.

John Ruppert’s LAB: Empirical Evidence at UMBC examines our relationship to climate change in physical and psychological ways

What can we do against such extreme forces of nature?

Wanting More from the Rodarte Fashion Exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani For the first time in its thirty years of programming, ...

A Gallery Roundup by Cara Ober and Bret McCabe If summer is a time for quietly experimental survey shows, September is blockbuster season. This fall, Baltimore is exploding with ambitious ...

Female Sexuality, Rage, and Power on Display: The Walters Art Museum and Amazon's I Love Dick by Cara Ober Walking into Art of Asia in the Walters Art Museum, I was weirdly reminded ...

What We All Lose with the Termination of The Contemporary

The Contemporary prioritized diversity and authentic conversation in a city that desperately needed it, and took the time necessary to do copious research and build respectful relationships, rather than bulldozing an ego-driven agenda or leveraging art

At The Pérez Art Museum, Contemporary Local Artists are the Key to Thriving Museum Culture

I was shocked that the visible presence of local working artists was seen as an asset, rather than a liability, by this particular institution.

The influence of Fred Wilson’s seminal 1992 intervention at the Maryland Historical Society is at once easily summarized and remarkably complex

Fred Wilson in conversation with George Ciscle at MICA

A Review of Decolonizing Alaska, a Group Exhibition at George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design by Brendan L. Smith Alaska Natives have struggled for centuries against ...

Abigail DeVille and The Contemporary's Only When It's Dark Enough Can You See the Stars at The Peale Museum

More than anything, though, See the Stars is a shockingly emotional hijacking of that elite and sometimes state-controlled manufacturing industry we call history.

Opinion Editorial See? I can do it too. I can create a sensationalized and misleading headline in order to attract readers. It was the headline from the Washington Post's June ...

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