Critical Review

Critical Review

Our new print journal features artists and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.

Baltimore itself is a hidden gem. Sure, it has flaws, but for anyone who dares, it offers up sparkling and surprising opportunities that wildly exceed expectations.

The Multi-Media Artist Interrogates the Cost of Fast Fashion and Offers Models of Repair

Camouflage renders beauty and material repurposing from the catastrophes of environmental degradation. The beauty here is not empty or slight, but deeply ethical, a slow product of intense labor and years of study and gestation. 

A Long-Overdue Monograph Offers a Complex Portrait of the Man Who Documented Baltimore's Seedy Underbelly

This month, storied art publisher Phaidon ships a hefty tome dedicated to one of the city's most overlooked (but important) photographers, who immortalized a sleazy queer Baltimore that no longer exists.

Onstage Through May 18

What happens when two women, each born into royal circumstances with claims to the throne of England, grow up to become bitter rivals? We have the makings of an imperial tale of political and religious intrigue that is as riveting now as it must have been almost 500 years ago. 

In Solo Show at the Hirshhorn, the Abstract Artist Offers Moments of Reflection Within Ambiguity

Visiting this single exhibit is an efficient way to appreciate the sweep of Pendleton's career and especially his claim on abstraction within the history of modern art that so strongly informs his practice.

Is a MICA Alumna in Cowboy Boots Emerging as the Unlikely Enfant Terrible of Estonia’s Art Scene?

On the heels of a successful solo show, we catch up with Zody Burke to talk about her upcoming show in New York, an experimental studio practice, and the pitfalls of getting lost in translation as an American artist in Europe.

Ruppert Explores the Symbiotic Relationship Between Nature and Civilization at C. Grimaldis Gallery

Spending time with the pieces on display is humbling the way that great art so often is. Climate change, the relationship between man and nature, the vastness of geological time, and our relative insignificance are all conveyed through images and objects of great aesthetic beauty.

The Group Show "Ecocide" and a Window Installation by Taina Litwak Confront Environmental Violence

This exhibit at The Crow's Nest pushes you to do what you can do to protect the land and the communities that inhabit it.

The New Exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Isn't Here to Make You Comfortable

It’s unusual to group an exhibition around an adjective, but Uncanny is less about a word than a psychological experience where something feels unnerving because it’s familiar but just slightly off.

Three Exhibitions Hit a Raw Nerve at a Time of Global Environmental Crisis

The Baltimore Museum of Art marked its 110th anniversary by launching the Turn Again to the Earth initiative. The goal: to encourage conversation and action around climate change and the role of the museum.

Three Satisfying Exhibits at the Baltimore Clayworks

Celebrating the Clayworks 45th Anniversary with Committed, Experimental, and Sometimes Even Dazzling Ceramics Exhibitions

BCS + BSA Spells "Triumph"

Ushering in a partnership with Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore Center Stage's production of Akeelah and the Bee features BSA freshmen and sophomore students in the majority of its roles. Onstage through April 13th.

Hot on the Heels of a New Album Release, the Brothers Acheson Bring Their Brand of Genre-Melding Pop to Metro Gallery on April 3rd

“The S.H.E. is not precious,” the band writes in their manifesto. “It’s a place for the music we wanted to make as kids in a Baltimore basement.”

A Survey of Candor and Commitment to Realistic Depiction

Pollution can be dismayingly ubiquitous, but it can also be catalyzing, and full of expressive potential.

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ $1M Public Art Challenge “encourages mayors to partner with artists, elevating the creative sector when developing solutions to significant urban issues”

Inviting Light is transforming the Station North Arts District with five site-specific public art installations and a series of dynamic community events this year.

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