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Round Falls, Baltimore

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?

Benjamin Andrew

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

Joyce Yu-Jean 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

Joshua Wade Smith

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

Allison Gulick

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

Cynthia Chin

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

A Little Show of Horrors

Isabel Kret

Isabel Kret on Frank Bruno: A Life Devoted to the End, July 9, 2013 – January 12, 2014, at American Visionary…

Windows by Eton Corrasable

Eton Corrasable

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

Glitches and Pop

Ian Maclean Davis

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

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

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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

Joyce Yu-Jean Lee

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

Curious and Curiouser

Cynthia Chin

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

Marcus Civin

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

Meet Me at the Crossroads

Allison Gulick

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

Animal Modern

What Weekly

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

What Weekly

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

Ian Maclean Davis

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?

Benjamin Andrew

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

Natural’s Not In It

Deirdre Smith

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