Category: Behind the Scenes

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  In the Galleries: Children’s Takes on Contemporary Art

  Artist, writer, and BMA Security Officer Dereck Magnus shares his encounter with students and Glenn Ligon’s America America A few weeks back, a magical if fleeting moment occurred in the Museum. A few children from a school group exiting the Contemporary Wing slowed down while passing Glenn Ligon’s Untitled (America America). This conceptual sculpture consists […]

  Dereck Magnus | 11.19.2019

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  Behind the Scenes: Curating Women Behaving Badly

  For the past six years, I’ve been an Art History graduate student at the University of Delaware and a resident of Baltimore. Though I live only a few blocks away from The Baltimore Museum of Art, it wasn’t until the summer of 2019, as the International Fine Print Dealers Association Curatorial Intern, that I was […]

  Jordan Hillman | 10.24.2019

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  The Surreal Realities of War

  The Baltimore Museum of Art is committed to presenting exhibitions and programs that demonstrate art’s relevance in contemporary culture. While Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s explores art from the previous century, the BMA’s special tours with U.S. Marine Corps veteran Hans Palmer provide a first-person perspective on a more […]

  Anne Brown | 04.01.2019