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10/05/2020

Peace Floods the Body: Bobbi Rush's 'Language of the Crow' - BmoreArt

The opening words of Bobbi Rush's Language of the Crow bring us into the middle of an assertion of absence and endurance: “… And so i must carry on without you.” The line, which suits the mood for this entire year of longing and adaptation, sets the tone for the rest of the text, an exploration of major shifts and growth through short, free-verse dispatches that explore and praise divinity, roots, water, blood, flesh, fluidity, and embodiment.

Today: Teri Henderson reviews Bobbi Rush's new book of poetry, a welcome respite from a constant barrage of psychically draining digital information.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/10/peace-floods-the-body-bobbi-rushs-language-of-the-crow.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

10/04/2020

The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 10/4 - BmoreArt

The internet was a mix of amazing profiles, personal essays and long reads, and batsh*t American politics. Highlights: Issa Rae, Michaela Coel and Donald Glover, Jeremy O. Harris, the concept of lifestyle, survival diaries, notes on notes, the presidential debate, Trump’s taxes and testing positive for COVID, and swearing parrots.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/10/the-internet-is-exploding-10-must-read-articles-this-week-10-4.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

10/02/2020

This week’s news includes: Morgan State aims to “abolish” food insecurity among students, MTA changes course, Baltimore as a COVID-19 success story, and more reporting from Technical.ly Baltimore, Baltimore Brew, Urban Institute, and others.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/10/baltimore-news-updates-from-independent-regional-media-10-1.html

10/01/2020

Bringing You Back to You: The Acme Corporation Finds Its Audience Through the Mail - BmoreArt

The Acme Corporation’s newest production, The Institute for Counterfeit Memory, is a play that arrives in a cardboard box by mail. The contents of the box—an MP3 player, a clip-on reading lamp/stage light, cue card diagrams, a compact mirror, a personalized letter, a glass jar, a 35mm Kodachrome transparency, a music box, and more—are carefully layered and arranged, allowing the audience to unpack the box/play according to the directions/script.
The play questions the accuracy of our memories, the value of truth, and how memory itself may be even more subjected to commodification in “these uncertain times.”

https://bmoreart.com/2020/10/bringing-you-back-to-you-the-acme-corporation-finds-its-audience-through-the-mail.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/30/2020

One-of-a-Kind Wearable Works of Art: Eight Art Jewelers to Purchase Right Now - BmoreArt

"Whether you’re getting dressed up to go to the grocery store or chatting with your colleagues on Zoom, contemporary jewelry is an art form with the direct ability to enhance your daily experience, regardless of whether you ever wear real pants again." - Cara Ober

Photos by Jill Fannon from Jewelry Edition Volume 5, featuring works by Amelia Toelke, Aric Verrastro, Jillian Moore, Kat Cole, Laura Wood, Megan McGaffigan, Tanya Crane, and Taylor Zarkades King and will be on view through October 17, 2020 at the Baltimore Jewelry Center !

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/one-of-a-kind-wearable-works-of-art-eight-art-jewelers-to-purchase-right-now.html

JEWELRY EDITION VOLUME 5 Exhibition dates: September 11 – October 17, 2020 Jewelry Edition is a platform for sharing and … Continued

09/29/2020

BmoreArt's Picks: September 29 - October 5 - BmoreArt

This week: Events with Maryland Institute College of Art, Maryland Art Place & Hotel Indigo, The Alchemy of Art, Stephanie Garon: Recede the Plain, Our Stories Virtual Festival - Towson University, The Baltimore Architecture Foundation, Out The Blocks, Cardinal, VisArts, make Studio, and Baltimore Center Stage

Calls for entry from Maryland Art Place Gutierrez Memorial Fund Hamiltonian VisArts

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/bmorearts-picks-september-29-october-5.html

BmoreArt's Picks: May 23-30 This Week: We are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

09/28/2020

Jo Smail's Visual Poetry - BmoreArt

Jo Smail talks with curator Kristen Hileman about her new artist's book, intuition and play, fear as a motivator, and more.
Check out Jo's shows at Goya Contemporary through Oct. 20 and The Baltimore Museum of Art through January 3, 2021. (The BMA's contemporary wing reopens this Wednesday.)

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/jo-smails-visual-poetry.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/25/2020

Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 9/24 - BmoreArt

This week’s news includes: Former Baltimore mayors voice their opinion on current affairs, the city’s trash woes continue, COVID test rates on the decline, and more reporting from i-D, Afro American Newspaper, Baltimore Business Journal, Baltimore magazine, Baltimore Brew, WYPR, and others.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/baltimore-news-updates-from-independent-regional-media-9-24.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/24/2020

Seeing What Happens: High Zero Goes Virtual - BmoreArt

For the first time in its 22-year history, the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music will not be bringing artists and musicians from around the world to Baltimore to share a stage with local artists and musicians just to see what happens—for the obvious pandemic reasons. As with so many other art, film, music, and stage endeavors this year, High Zero is going virtual, collaborating with similarly minded artists and festivals in Chicago, Santa Fe, and Seattle to curate a streaming event starting this week on the festival’s Twitch channel.

Today: Bret McCabe writes about how this year's High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music will adapt to the screen.

High Zero Foundation
High Mayhem
Elastic Arts
Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Normal's Books & Records

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/seeing-what-happens-high-zero-goes-virtual.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/23/2020

Schroeder Cherry's Pillars of the Community - BmoreArt

Each of Schroeder Cherry's assemblage portraits creates a sense of familiarity, especially through the everyday objects and materials he repeatedly incorporates as symbols for larger questions and preconceived notions of American history and culture.

"The lines between craft and fine art are diminishing more now because those designated as craftspeople are so talented and using the same principles as fine artists in terms of line, color, shape, and form in their production, blurring those lines."

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/schroeder-cherrys-pillars-of-the-community.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/22/2020

BmoreArt's Picks: September 22-28 - BmoreArt

This week's picks include "Connected Diaspora: Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media" at Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland; CLOSE READ virtual artist talk with Savannah Wood, Akea Brionne Brown, SHAN Wallace, and Angela N. Carroll and CLOSE READ closing reception (hosted by BmoreArt); "SEEN: 20 Years of Baltimore Music Photography 2000-2020" at Maryland Art Place; online gala and fundraiser for The Peale Center; and more from Full Circle Fine Art Services, Apex Art, Baltimore Concert Opera, VisArts, and others.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/bmorearts-picks-september-22-28.html

BmoreArt's Picks: May 23-30 This Week: We are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

09/21/2020

The Glenstone Museum’s Aseptic Aesthetic - BmoreArt

Nestled into an expanse of rolling hills on the grounds of the billionaire owners’ private estate, Glenstone feels at once made for this virus-ruled world and, at the same time, far removed from it. The effect is somewhere between that of a day spa and a lunar colony, plus art.
When I booked my visit more than a month in advance, I anticipated a cathartic return to an experience I’d missed for over five months. Our time apart, I figured, would make the reunion all the more powerful. I instead left the museum feeling overwhelmed by its uncanny undercurrent, and yet underwhelmed by my own engagement with the art.

Today: Maura Callahan writes about Glenstone Museum.
https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/the-glenstone-museums-aseptic-aesthetic.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/20/2020

The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 9/20 - BmoreArt

The internet was very sad and kinda all over the place this week, as was I. RBG died, how the US Senate fails its citizens, queer theory, when do models own their image, the real Paris Hilton, Enya, an oral history of Wishbone, remembering Jimi Hendrix 50 years after his death, Kanye’s Universal contract, and banning TikTok and WeChat.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/the-internet-is-exploding-10-must-read-articles-this-week-9-20.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/17/2020

After MICA Faculty Vote No Confidence, Board of Trustees Announces Support of President Hoi and a Pledge to Implement Changes - BmoreArt

After MICA Faculty Vote No Confidence, Board of Trustees Announces Support of President Hoi and a Pledge to Implement Changes by Rebekah Kirkman

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/after-mica-faculty-vote-no-confidence-board-of-trustees-announces-support-of-president-hoi-and-a-pledge-to-implement-changes.html

It’s no secret that the coronavirus has spurred a crisis in American higher education, exacerbating financial shortfalls from cutbacks in … Continued

09/16/2020

The Dissensus Convergence: Prairie WWWW, Non-Confined Space, and Horse Lords in Conversation - BmoreArt

Today! A conversation with Baltimore band Horse Lords and Taiwanese-based 落差草原 WWWW / Prairie WWWW and 後疫情，新展演!! | 非/密閉空間 Non-Confined Space -- about creative survival during a pandemic and cultural roots as muse, and more.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/the-dissensus-convergence-prairie-wwww-non-confined-space-and-horse-lords-in-conversation.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/14/2020

Artist Collaboration Puts Cash and Specially Designed T-Shirts Directly into Squeegee-ers’ Hands - BmoreArt

Artist Toyomansi commissioned Reem Unknown to design a T-shirt that says "Tip Your Local Squeegee Boy," then sold the shirts through Bandcamp. “I thought that was the coolest thing ever. I’m all for the squeegee boys,” Reem says. “They just trying to get by as best they can and make an honest living. I could never hate on someone, especially another black man trying to make a better situation for themselves.”

60 shirts were sold, and an additional 65 shirts were printed and given to squeegee boys—along with $530 cash, netted from the Bandcamp sales. Look out for another T-shirt design in the coming weeks.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/artist-collaboration-puts-cash-and-specially-designed-t-shirts-directly-into-squeegee-ers-hands.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/13/2020

The Internet Is Exploding: 10 Must-Read Articles This Week 9/13 - BmoreArt

Highlights: The meaning of learning a new language, drinking with Nikki Giovanni and Tressie McMillan Cottom, Claudia Rankine, the unfinished story of Emmett Till, how it is expensive to be poor, philanthropy mostly helps the rich, Alicia Keys works with the NFL, the end of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the west coast is burning, and Trump’s Supreme Court Justice picks.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/the-internet-is-exploding-10-must-read-articles-this-week-9-13.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/10/2020

Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 9/10 - BmoreArt

This week’s news includes: City government shake-up, COVID hospitalizations on the rise, Trump bashes Baltimore, and more reporting from Baltimore Brew, Baltimore Business Journal, ProPublica, and others.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/baltimore-news-updates-from-independent-regional-media-9-10.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/09/2020

The Girls Aren’t All Right - BmoreArt

These passionate, dedicated filmmakers have captured unforgettable moments here, and without their access we would never have met these women. Without trans persons behind the camera, however, the spectacle of The Right Girls offers few answers for those of us who have a personal stake in the outcome of this journey.

Today: Rahne Alexander reviews the documentary The Right Girls, which follows a handful of young transgender women from El Salvador and Honduras who traveled with the 2018 caravan of asylum-seekers from Southern Mexico to the US border at Tijuana.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/the-girls-arent-all-right.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/07/2020

Litscope: Virgo & Celeste Headlee's ‘Do Nothing' - BmoreArt

This month’s book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee, fits Virgo season like a glove to a hand. The book’s central argument is that “we are members of the cult of efficiency, and we’re killing ourselves with productivity.”

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/litscope-virgo-celeste-headlees-do-nothing.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/04/2020

The Illusion of Free Time: Visual Diary by Elena Volkova - BmoreArt

Like many introverts, I started this quarantine thinking about opportunities the isolation could uncover—so much time for reflection, so much time to start new projects, so much needed time to spend with family. I could finally not leave the house, stay home and do what I love: observe light and reflect on my subjective domestic experience.

Today: Photo essay by Elena Volkova

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/the-illusion-of-free-time-visual-diary-by-elena-volkova.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/03/2020

Baltimore News Updates from Independent & Regional Media 9/3 - BmoreArt

This week’s news includes: Baltimore hits pause on reopening, contact tracing coming to a phone near you, shake-ups in state government, and more reporting from Baltimore magazine, Essence, Maryland Matters, WYPR, and others.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/baltimore-news-updates-from-independent-regional-media-9-3.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.

09/02/2020

Staying at Home with Designer Patrick Sutton - BmoreArt

For Patrick Sutton, good design is based in desire and a little bit of impulse. He believes in centering an interior space as a reflection of the planned occupants and works closely with his clients—from hotels like Fells Point’s Sagamore Pendry to restaurants and private homes throughout the DMV—to understand not just who they are but who they would like to be. Mindfulness and aspiration are deeply embedded in his layered interiors which mix materials, antiques, and modern aesthetics with influences from all over the world.

Today: Suzy Kopf interviews Baltimore-based designer Patrick Sutton, who talks about designing based on personality, following intuition, and assembling the space to dream.

https://bmoreart.com/2020/09/staying-at-home-with-designer-patrick-sutton.html

BmoreArt is a creative and critical daily online journal. We believe that Baltimore’s creative class deserves to be discussed, critiqued, and well-informed.