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Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 2/10/2010 |

GET ON THE BUS This Sunday, Feb. 14, the Evergreen Museum and Library sponsors an Art Bus Tour of Baltimore's "lesser-known art world," as coordinated and chaperoned by local artist/curator Jason Hug...[MORE]

Fever Kitsch: John Waters isn't afraid to take aim at himself in his visual artworks

Art | 2/10/2010 | By Alex Ebstein

On Jan. 20, an unusual crowd spilled out the door, down the steps, and onto the sidewalk in front of the C. Grimaldis Gallery. A mix of formally dressed and costumed gallery-goers intermingled in the...[MORE]

A Celebration of Flo McGarrell's Life: Tonight, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. at the Middendorf Gallery in MICA's Station Building

Arts and Minds | 1/20/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Last week Flo McGarrell—MICA grad, multidisciplinary artist, and son to James and Ann McGarrell of Newbury, Vt.—passed away Jan. 12 during the earthquake that devastated Haiti. At the time...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 1/20/2010 |

ÎLE-DE-TOWSON Favorite son local filmmaker/writer John Waters installed his first public solo visual art show in 1995 at New York's American Fine Arts Co., and ever since his insouciant, ribald ...[MORE]

Quick Sketches: Jan. 7-9

Arts and Minds | 1/7/2010 | By Bret McCabe

COOL TEXTS Maryland Art Place's Instant Messages ends its run Jan. 9, and if you haven't checked out this show—featuring MFA students from MICA's Graphic Design program directed by Ellen Lupton&...[MORE]

Furnished Room: Two new School 33 shows reconfigure home décor and reimagine the world from above

Art | 1/6/2010 | By Bret McCabe

Something strange is definitely afoot in Shannon Donovan's wall-mounted porcelain and earthenware works at School 33. Her three "Hubcap Portraits" and the wall-covering "Exuberance Is Better Than Tas...[MORE]

Biggie Shorty: Don't worry about the obtuse organizational idea--the works work

Art | 12/30/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Local artist Jen Kirby is a master of the epic ephemeral. Her string installations, as seen at the Whole Gallery's Off the Wall last April and the University of Maryland at College Park Stamp Gallery...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 12/16/2009 |

THE BIG SHOWS Late December is frequently an art-looking quiet time, as the year comes to a close along with a number of gallery shows. During this time, though, some of you may be taking a day off h...[MORE]

The Gilded Page: FAX creatively revisits the pre-digital technology of the business world

Art | 12/16/2009 | By Martin L. Johnson

Bulky, slow, and hard to use, the facsimile machine is the last of the office-technology dinosaurs. Although the underlying technology was first patented in the 1840s, it took almost a century and a...[MORE]

Three's Company: . . . but make curious bedfellows in this group show

Art | 12/2/2009 | By Martin L. Johnson

Sanford Biggers, Joyce J. Scott, and Sam Gilliam are all prominent African-American artists with connections to the Maryland Institute College of Art. Biggers studied at MICA, Scott studied at MICA a...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 11/25/2009 |

CALL FOR ENTRIES The College of Notre Dame of Maryland is currently accepting entries for its 21st National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition. Drawings and prints--not photography--in any medi...[MORE]

Peter Van Heerden: A Q&A with the South African performance artist

Art | 11/25/2009 | By Bret McCabe

"Ubuntu" is a Bantu word that conveys an African humanist philosophy, and as promoted and discussed by figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, one of the organizing ideals of the ...[MORE]

Brand of Outsiders: AVAM tackles freedom with its usual big heart and wide berth

Art | 11/25/2009 | By Geoffrey Himes

The signature image for the current year-long exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum, the icon for all its publicity, is a human-scaled Statue of Liberty constructed from Louisiana driftwood. It...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 11/18/2009 |

EXQUISITE CORPUS The title that curator Laura Amussen picked for the debut exhibition in Goucher College's swank new Silber Gallery slyly calibrates the brain for its content. The work in this group ...[MORE]

Blight Star: Sarah Doherty transforms abandoned urban spaces with creative installations

Art | 11/18/2009 | By Alex Ebstein

In the stretch of alleyway behind the 2000%u20132300 blocks of North Calvert Street, a transformation has taken place. Almost entirely hidden from view between two busy streets, the backyards and ex...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 11/4/2009 |

CHEVOLUTION In the summer of 2006 the mammoth Sixties Fashion Exhibit took over a part of London's Victoria and Albert Museum to much fanfare, but an entirely different '60s emblem was also ensconced...[MORE]

Transcending Decorative: Contemporary artists apolitically re-examine a politically charged 1970s feminist art practice

Art | 11/4/2009 | By Martin L. Johnson

In an essay published in 2007, art critic Arthur Danto, quoting Joyce Kozloff, provocatively claims that there are not two, but three types of art: figurative, abstract, and pattern and decoration. A...[MORE]

Gallery Imperato Prepares to Move

Arts and Minds | 10/28/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Gallery Imperato sent out an e-mail press release last Friday, Oct. 23, announcing immediate relocation plans: Gallery Imperato is in the process of relocating. We will no longer be conducting busines...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 10/28/2009 |

CREMASTER 4 Though not as visually indelible as 1999's Cremaster 2 nor as shamelessly decadent as 2002's Cremaster 3, Matthew Barney's Cremaster 4 may be the most accessible and linear of his five-pa...[MORE]

The Tell-Tale Art: Two new BMA exhibits get at what we get out of the work of Edgar Allan Poe

Art | 10/28/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Loneliness isn't easy to convey visually. Too often, the attempt involves a trite solitary figure against a background, or a figure depicted in some clich?d pose (i.e., sitting, knees drawn up to ches...[MORE]