Joseph Young’s MicroFiction RowHouse consists of short texts and fragments of a fictional family’s history playing out across the surfaces of the artist’s home.
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A Film Connects Rat Control and Racism in Baltimore
With Rat Film Theo Anthony shows how Baltimore’s rat infestation and racism originate in and are enmeshed with the city’s historical development.
Posted inNews
225-Year-Old Columbus Monument in Baltimore Attacked with Sledgehammer
Video footage showing someone taking a sledgehammer to the memorial’s base was posted on Popular Resistance’s YouTube channel this morning.
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Baltimore Removes All Its Confederate Monuments in Dark Hours of Wednesday Morning
After a unanimous resolution by Baltimore’s City Council to remove the Confederate monuments, they were swiftly taken away by city workers overnight.
Posted inArt
A Flattened World Full of Intimacy
In his solo show at Terrault Contemporary, Devin N. Morris suggests that touching paper need not differ from touching flesh.
Posted inPerformance
Fruits of a Fictitious Expedition Fill the Oldest Built Museum in the United States
H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum in Baltimore’s 1814 Peale Museum, the first built museum in the United States, offers visitors a complex narrative of time travel and colonialism.
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Baltimore Loses a DIY Haven for Marginalized Artists
On December 5, city fire marshals and the housing authority condemned the Bell Foundry, a DIY venue that had become a home for local artists with marginalized identities.
Posted inArt
Looking at the Invisible Children Growing Up as Refugees
While many photographers focus on either aesthetics or rigorous documentation, Rania Matar fuses them — and adds a generous dose of humanity for good measure.
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The Hidden History of Recycling in Medieval Art
It’s easy to forget that a historic artifact preserved in a museum is not a static object.
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The Uneasy Beauty of Joyce J. Scott’s Seductive Forms
BALTIMORE — The golden man is tiny, but he’s got a penis like a garden hose.
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The Many Lives and Losses of the Western Hemisphere’s Oldest Museum
BALTIMORE — Most contemporary art museums operate in service of the art they exhibit, the setting playing a secondary role to artists’ intentions.
Posted inOpinion
Why an Amateur Photographer’s Inside View of the #BaltimoreUprising Went Mainstream
The first images coming out of the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore last week were photographs by local professionals and amateurs, distributed across social media.