There is no better way to kickoff a public art conference than an exuberant outdoor art performance. This weekend, June 25-27, Baltimore is hosting the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network's (PAN) Half-Century Summit. On Wednesday, June 23rd the event started off ...
Published: June 24, 2010
The Americans for the Arts Half-Century Summit kicks off tonight, June 23rd with an outdoor performance of artist Susan Lee-Chun's Everybody Suzercise! at the Inner Harbor, followed by an opening reception at Maryland Art Place with Pecha Kucha presentations moderated by PAN ...
Published: June 23, 2010
About three months ago, my brother Harry and I began to discuss a joint curatorial venture. What started as a conversation over a beer at Corner Bistro in NYC recently came to fruition as the Super/Prime PAVILION – a site-specific, independently curated annex ...
Published: June 3, 2010
Throwing a simultaneous website launch party, pop-up art show, music and dance performance may seem like an overwhelming proposition. In fact, Baltimore fashion label Natty Paint's recent website launch party at Load of Fun proved that, while it can be done, it is definitely ...
Published: May 5, 2010
One performance piece at the Transmodern Festival caught my eye. Reminiscent of Dellilo's men in mylar suits, Scott Pennington's The Pink and Blue Dilemma consisted of three anonymous masked laborers who stood inside of a box, surrounded by pink Styrofoam packaging nuggets and working tirelessly ...
Published: April 19, 2010
A slight repose from the general chaos and hipsterpalooza that is the Transmodern Festival, the Nudashank Galllery has produced a show that lives up to to its obscure title, Horror Vacui. The title infers the fear of empty spaces, the works use the aesthetics of ...
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This past weekend the BMA hosted the annual Baltimore Print Fair for Contemporary Prints and New Additions. The walls of the three room exhibition space were chock- full of prints from a wide array of sources. The two day event is a chance for galleries, ...
Published: March 30, 2010
Artist, curator and former visual arts coordinator at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts (BOPA), Gary Kachadourian has curated another large group show – that is, as large of a show he could manage within a 225-inch space. Currently on view in the ...
Published: March 10, 2010
Dichotomies present potentially powerful subject matter in contemporary art. A tension between two opposing artistic points of view is on display in Blood Weather, a new installation at the Creative Alliance by Becky Alprin and Lauren Boilini. Bolini’s works are massive paintings of explosive expression in ...
Published: March 2, 2010
What brought the women of Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, a new exhibition at Maryland Art Place, together in both real time and cyberspace? The exhibit is a complete exploration of new media art from the curation itself to the art on display; the ...
Published: February 22, 2010