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It is late February 2025, the premier night of The Baby Laurence Legacy Project: Tracing Steps, Ali’s epic two-hour performance three years in the making, yet as the interdisciplinary artist begins to dance, I can feel the separative notions of time and place bend to the summoning of her feet.
This week's news includes: Artscape updates, Trans Visibility quilt displayed on the Mall, Preakness past and present in photos, Joyce J. Scott receives honorary doctorate from UB, John Waters weighs in on Carly Hayden's firing and how to (mis)behave at his book signings, Guns of Steel, and more!
Future Ghost, a Queer performance collective that is the brainchild of Lyam B. Gabel and Joseph Amodei, created the production out of a desire to bring light to not just the disease, but to the people who experienced and lived through this uniquely disastrous phenomenon.
In Issue 19, we celebrate Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.
This Week: UMBC Senior Thesis opening reception, closing reception for Jonna McKone and Elena Volkva at Connect + Collect, Cathy Cook Film Retrospective at Current Space, John Waters book signing at Atomic Books, opening reception for Piper Shepard at Academy Art Museum, and more!
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.
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.
In 2022, Meaghan and Shane Carpenter opened Hex Superette in the front of their manufacturing facility on York Road. The sun-drenched dining room overlooks the grocery store.
This week's news includes: Honorary MICA degrees for Christopher Myers and George Ciscle, Baltimore turns up for Turnstile, reactions to Dr. Carla Hayden's firing, coleman a. jordan | ebo at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennial, the lasting legacy of Black Cherry Puppet Theater, and more!
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.
This Week: JOCK’N BLUES unveiling + reception at BLIFTD ART STVDIOS, May Bromo Art Walk, Chew-Ache opening reception at The Compound, Preakness Festival 150 opening reception at MAP, MICA ArtWalk Opening and Exhibition, opening reception for Hosey Corona at Creative Alliance, and more!
Springtime for discounts in Chelsea, winter for artists and galleries...
“We lean into the erotic nature of it. We lean into the artistic nature. We lean into the transcendent nature of it,” Burrows says. “If you’re feeling good about yourself then it is more difficult for you to do something that will oppress someone or will oppress yourself.”
In Upendo's latest album "For the Love of it All" the band brings experience and heritage to new compositions.
This week's news includes: Julia M. Alexander passes away from heart attack, The Banner wins a Pulitzer, The Phillips Collection appoints Tiffany McGettigan and Clarisse Fava-Piz, 2025 Screenwriters Competition announced, BMA's upcoming exhibition The Way of Nature, and more!