Critical Review

Critical Review

MAP's Annual Survey of Recent MFA Grads Places Artists from UMD, UMBC, and MICA in Discourse

This iteration of MAP's annual showcase of new regional talent reminds us why seeing artworks and artists in-person is vital, sprawl be damned. The exhibition closes Saturday, September 7.

Gallery Shows Perfect for Autumm's Back to School Attitude

Summer '24 at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Monica Ikegwu at Galerie Myrtis, Inaugural Exhibition at The Crow's Nest, Balancing Acts at The Peale, and Esther Kläs at CPM Gallery

Exhibits at The National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery Offer a New Conversation Between Two Iconic Artists and Activists

Two DC exhibitions take contrasting approaches to understanding the artistry, lives, and enduring relevance of these legendary American artists.

Yet Again, Short-Sighted Newspaper Leadership Fails to Understand the Difference Between Quantity and Quality of Readership

The Washington Post is cutting their ongoing Galleries column, a loss to local readers, artists, and audiences.

Hellen Ascoli, Amy Boone-McCreesh, and Sam Mack's Crafty Aesthetics Belie Conceptual Poly-Fil

The winner of the 2024 Janet & Walter Sondheim Art Prize, chosen by this year’s jurors, will be announced during a special reception and award ceremony at the museum on Thursday, August 22.

Monique Crabb, True Arizola-Lyons, Charles Mason III, and Monica Mirabile Nurture, Care, and Play in "Love & Cruelty" and Viscous

From maternal domestic labor and caregiving to childlike wonder, four visually distinct practices evoke a range of visceral associations.

A Conversation about Black Visual Artists Engaging in Material Concerns and the Cultural Implications

Seph Rodney, visiting curator, at CPM Gallery, talks about Chakaia Booker, Leonardo Drew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock

Dismantling the Monolith

Multiplicity is not a show about Black collage, it’s about Blackness in American collage which is entirely different.

Black Woman Genius Features Ten Intergenerational Fiber Artists from the Chesapeake Area

How else could Baltimore properly honor the legacy of Elizabeth Talford Scott, but with radical unconventionality, centering community and accessibility?

Curated by Sky Hopinka, Five Films Reframe the American Narrative

These films comprise conscious attempts to reverse the colonial gaze of settlers, anthropologists and documentarians, and to speak meaningfully of and to Indigenous subjects.

Remembering the Multiplicity and Influence of Early Twentieth Century Cultural Trailblazers 

Brilliant Exiles comprises nearly eighty artworks depicting sixty American cultural influencers who went to Paris on the eve of World War II.

A Subway Mosaic that Moves Viewers, and Two Public Art Tragedies from a Baltimore Treasure

This month, Kathy O'Dell takes readers on a ride through, above, below, and behind Pat Alexander's beloved "Geometro" mosaic in the Lexington Market Metro station. Plus, the sad stories of two Alexander works that Baltimoreans can no longer enjoy.

A Review of Iron Crow Theatre’s Production of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, running through June 30

Perfect for Pride Month, Baltimore’s Premier Queer Theater Manifests a Much Needed Feel-Good Musical About a Boy Who Dreams to be a Drag Queen

A New Group Exhibition from Curator Fabiola R. Delgado Looks Beyond the Numbers on Migration

The ten artists on view in Between, Through, Across represent a diverse, intergenerational, multicultural group of creators with unique backgrounds, styles, and visions—each of whom have their own personal take on the subject of migration.

June and July Exhibitions in the Baltimore Region that Experiment, Collaborate, and Defy Expectations

Megan Lewis at Galerie Myrtis, Fragment(ed)ing at Zo Gallery, Transmission at School 33 Art Center, Nick Wisniewski at Swann House, Here in this Little Bay at the Kreeger Museum, Reflect & Remix at The Walters, and Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum at the BMA

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