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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]

Janet and Walter Sondheim Award 2010 Deadline Dec. 18

Arts and Minds | 10/22/2009 | By Bret McCabe

A Baltimore Office of Promotions and the Arts press release this morning outlined the time table for the 2010 Janet and Walter Sondheim Award. This fifth annual Sondheim prize will be the first shephe...[MORE]

Local Art: Annual Mayor's Cultural Town Meeting Postponed to 2010

Arts and Minds | 10/21/2009 | By Bret McCabe

A press release sent out by Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts Communications Associate Dionne McConkey Oct. 12 announced that the Mayor's Cultural Town Meeting, an annual local summit where B...[MORE]

PBS' Art in the 21st Century

Arts and Minds | 10/21/2009 | By Bret McCabe

The 40th anniversary of Monty Python's Flying Circus, commemorated on American cable television with the IFC's Monty Python Almost the Truth (The Lawyers Cut), expectedly earned its fair share of digi...[MORE]

Learning the Trade: Annual program gives emerging curators a chance to showcase their ideas

Art | 10/21/2009 | By Alex Ebstein

The Seventh Annual Curators' Incubator at Maryland Art Place presents three exhibitions curated by Rachel Sitkin, Shelly Blake-Plock (an erstwhile City Paper contributor), and Margaret Winslow. The pr...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 10/14/2009 |

BEYOND THE ALLEY OF THE DOLLS In the Just Really Cool Department, a group of Mid-Atlantic artists have taken over three blocks of alleyway behind North Calvert Street between 20th and 23rd streets fo...[MORE]

The Fugitive Mark: Jo Smail's incremental search for meaning and expression continues

Art | 10/14/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Jo Smail's mixed-media "Figure With Broken Halo" may give you the fantods. A quick glance reveals a seemingly chaotic collage of black and white paper against a sky-blue acrylic background. Some hot...[MORE]

Quick Sketches

Quick Sketches | 10/7/2009 |

POSTER BOYS Occasional City Paper contributors Post Typography lead a discussion on poster design Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. at UMBC in conjunction with its solid The Art of Persuasion: Poster Design from 1896...[MORE]

Life in Full: Barry Nemett graciously puts his own experiences into his art

Art | 10/7/2009 | By Martin L. Johnson

In recent years, Barry Nemett, an energetic polymath and professor of painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, has been on a creative spurt. He published his first novel, Crooked Tracks,...[MORE]

The Baker Artist Awards Return

Arts and Minds | 10/2/2009 | By Bret McCabe

Yes, that's right: the shadowy organization/benefactors who last May awarded 10 local artists a total of $82,000-seven $1,000 winners determined by a popular vote (that was never disclosed) and three ...[MORE]

Modern Problems: Léon Krier advocates a return to more conscientious urban development

Books | 9/30/2009 | By Scott Carlson

It's helpful to understand that Léon Krier is an architectural traditionalist before starting his book, The Architecture of Community (Island Press), or you might not get what his fuss is abo...[MORE]

Open Space Opens: The latest DIY arts hive plants roots in Remington

Art | 9/30/2009 | By Alex Ebstein

Behind the alligator mural on 28th Street, the Baltimore Body Shop began to show signs of life and late-night activity back in June. Afghans hung from the windows and large groups of twentysomethi...[MORE]

Quick Sketches: Sept. 24-Oct. 2

Arts and Minds | 9/24/2009 | By Bret McCabe

RUSH HOUR: The opening reception for Maryland Art Place's Sevent Annual Curator's Incubator takes place this evening, with a 5 p.m. reception and a series of gallery talks and sound performances start...[MORE]

This World Is Not Enough: Melissa Webb explores alternate universes through her fiber creations

Art | 9/9/2009 | By Bret McCabe

The seven Melissa Webb designs currently installed at Gallery Imperato's In a Material World . . . form an incomplete exhibition for the local fiber artist. That's not to imply that the pieces aren'...[MORE]