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★ Art Criticism

Round Falls, Baltimore

December 18, 2013

Jess Bither

It’s difficult to view Round Falls from the highway overhead; it’s even hidden to runners along the Jones Falls Trail.…

What is Art?

December 14, 2013

Benjamin

Dina Kelberman’s Online Curiosities. Benjamin Andrew interviews Dina Kelberman. Last month, on November 2, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) played host…

Art Crit :: Words in Images

November 21, 2013

Joyce Y. Lee

Joyce Y. Lee reflects on Ann Hamilton’s “near away: Series and Editions”, an exhibit at Goya Contemporary in Baltimore, September…

All Work and No Pay

October 18, 2013

Josh

Baltimore-based sculptor Joshua Wade Smith’s Working Vacation in Friesland, in the North, in the Netherlands     This past Summer,…

The Implications of Our Actions

October 10, 2013

Allison

Allison Gulick reviews Nancy Daly’s exhibition, Subject to Terms and Conditions, at School 33 Art Center on Light Street in…

The Artist, The Art, and The Lack of Wardrobe

September 19, 2013

Cynthia Chin

Cynthia Chin and C.S. Lewis analyze the exhibit Knowing, curated by Manian E. Chettle, at Area 405, on view from…

Windows by Eton Corrasable

August 29, 2013

Eton

  Where is the Window? You sit or lay in a building welcoming you to some reminder of light. I…

Glitches and Pop

August 15, 2013

MacleanDavis

Ian MacLean Davis on Nathaniel Mellors & Jimmy Joe Roche at the Baltimore Museum of Art through September 29, 2013. Art is fundamentally errors…

Escaping the Screen/ Capturing the Screen

August 8, 2013

Deirdre Smith

Deirdre Smith on Dina Kelberman and new media. Dina Kelberman’s solo exhibition, Screencaps, at Nudashank Gallery, July 13 – August 17,…

Finding Metaspace

August 7, 2013

Max Guy

Max Guy gives serious thought to an exhibition at the new Springsteen Gallery. The show is over now, but the gallery…

2013 Sondheim Prize: The Big Reveal

August 1, 2013

Joyce Y. Lee

At the awards ceremony, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake announced the 2013 Sondheim Prize winner as Gabriela Bulisova, to which…

Curious and Curiouser

July 24, 2013

Cynthia Chin & Matthew Saindon

Cynthia Chin analyzes Cat Sachse’s ARTSCAPE satellite exhibition. Located on the first floor of the Botteon building on South Conkling…

Baltimore’s Built Environment

July 18, 2013

MarcusCivin & Noritaka

A new photo essay by Noritaka Minami followed by a discussion about architectural strata   Marcus Civin: Nori, I invited…

Meet Me at the Crossroads

July 4, 2013

Allison

Allison Gulick considers Ashe to Amen at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, 830…

Animal Modern

June 20, 2013

Fred & Theresa Keil

Thinking about the visual culture of Baltimore, Fred Scharmen takes a time machine ride, with giraffes. Photographs by Theresa Keil.  The…

Pills, Stars, and a Duchess

June 13, 2013

Benjamin

Benjamin Andrew explores Rodolpe Delaunay’s exhibition, a cosmology presented by The Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore at Current Gallery, 421…

I Will Not Think Bad Thoughts

May 30, 2013

MacleanDavis

Ian MacLean Davis reviews The Salon of Little Deaths at Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, DC, on view through June 15th, 1353…

Is Time a Milk Bowl?

May 16, 2013

Benjamin

Benjamin Andrew remembers a performance on April 19, 2013, at Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower in Baltimore.   A school of…

Natural’s Not In It

April 10, 2013

Deirdre Smith

Deirdre Smith on Lisa Dillin’s Stopgap, at Gallery Four   Visitors to the opening night of Lisa Dillin’s solo show, Stopgap…

Breaking News & Criticism

April 10, 2013

Benjamin

Benjamin Andrew advocates for a new and creative criticism!   BALTIMORE –  An ongoing crisis in the world of art criticism…