People need a source of restoration, and museums are well-positioned to fill that role, but restoration should not mean escape.
Maura Callahan
Maura Callahan is a Baltimore-based writer, former alternatively weekly newspaper editor, and a current graduate student of contemporary art history at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written for several publications including Hyperallergic, Momus, and Burnaway, and was the recipient of the Gulf Coast Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing in 2018.
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Recharting America’s Origin Story Through Quilts
Stephen Towns’s exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art honors black women and Nat Turner, meditates on labor, and makes room for nuance in debates on depictions of historical violence.
