Asma Naeem’s appointment comes in the wake of a tumultuous period for the institution.
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Job Opportunity: Director of the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting MFA, MICA
The ideal candidate will be a painter engaged with contemporary issues who can develop a vision and set the future direction of this program at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Kei Ito Traces Tragedy and Mourning
Ito’s rubbings and multimedia works are traces of a global tragedy still imprinted in the memories of Americans more than two decades later.
Seeking a Union Election, Workers Sue Walters Art Museum
The museum refused a Freedom of Information request, stating that it is a private entity and therefore not subject to the MPIA.
Baltimore Museum of Art Presents a Retrospective on Joan Mitchell
The only East Coast presentation of this exhibition includes 70 artworks and rarely seen photographs, letters, poems, and other archival materials from the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
At the Baltimore Museum of Art, Joy That Is a Little Askew
Richard Yarde’s watercolors make a historical document into something personal, wistful, more a vision than a visual fact.
Why Joan Mitchell’s Paintings Can Never Die
Unlike the more celebrated painters around her, she didn’t resolve herself to working the same issues over and over; she kept asking herself other questions, pushing the paint to do what it had not quite done before.
Guard the Guards, Not Just the Art, Says Baltimore Museum Union in Demonstration
“We want livable wages and to be able to live well,” said Rob Kempton, a security guard. “I think our efforts are warranted, and we aren’t going to go down without a fight.”
The Last Public Confederate Statue in Maryland Is Removed
The “Talbot Boys Statue” stood outside a courthouse in the town of Easton for 106 years.
BMA Exhibition Examines Matisse’s Friendship With a Baltimore Collector
Over 160 artworks, including rarely seen works on paper, illuminate Etta Cone’s vision and her role in creating the Baltimore Museum of Art’s mammoth Matisse collection.
The Curious Emergence of Two Mermaid Museums in the US
Two museums, one in Berlin, Maryland, and another in Aberdeen, Washington, are both self-funded women-led projects.
Baltimore Museum of Art Wants to Reimagine Itself “From Scratch”
After facing backlash for its plan to de-accession major works, the BMA will consult with community members to reinvent its role.