Category: Top Right Story

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  Shinah Solomon Etting: Jewish Matriarch of Early Baltimore

  In 1792, Shinah Solomon Etting (1744-1822), a Jewish widow, sat for her portrait in Baltimore. Her portraitist, Charles Peale Polk (1767-1822), was a member of the Peale family, and many of his relatives—including his uncle Charles Willson Peale—were professional artists. Polk’s portrait of Shinah Etting (fig. 1), which is currently on view in Jacob and […]

  Emily Rose Beeber | 03.07.2024

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  Watch the Throne

  Since its emergence in the 1970s, hip hop has grown into a global phenomenon, driving innovations in music, fashion, technology, and visual and performing arts. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century captures hip hop’s extraordinary influence through more than […]

  Asma Naeem | 03.29.2023

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  From the Ground Up

  New Interpretation for the Antioch Floor Mosaics Reflect Many Cultural Influences Situated near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in present-day Türkiye, the ancient cities of Antioch and Daphne were thriving cultural, business, and political centers between the 1st and 6th centuries. Since the 1940s, fragments of floor mosaics from the homes of cosmopolitan elites […]

  Staff | 02.10.2023

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  Showstoppers

  Rich retellings of history Visitors to the BMA have been stopping in their tracks to take in Simone Leigh’s Meredith, a majestic reinterpretation of Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen currently on view in the Cone Wing. The sculpture is situated in a gallery surrounded by the works of modern masters like Claude Monet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille […]

  Staff | 11.01.2022

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  Drawn To with Ernest Shaw

  Which works of art at the BMA draw you in? For Ernest Shaw, an image-maker and educator born and raised in West Baltimore, it’s Gary Simmons’ charcoal drawing, Triple Burn, on view through January 5, 2020, in Every Day: Selections from the Collection. The symbolism and technique in Simmons’ work aligns with Shaw’s colorful approach […]

  Andrea Boston | 12.12.2019

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  Was This the Oddest Exhibition in the BMA’s History?

  You’re standing in a maze inside the BMA, looking at two clocks.  One has a round face inside a square frame with three lines running down its center.  The other has a square face and square frame with one curved corner. Which one represents good design? Your answer could bring you one step closer to […]

  Renee Hoffman | 07.12.2019

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  Drawn To with SHAN Wallace

  Which works of art at the BMA draw you in? For the latest installment in our series Drawn To, we posed this question to SHAN Wallace. Watch the award-winning photographer, educator, and freedom fighter from East Baltimore discuss her spiritual and artistic connections to the masks, sculptures, and textiles on view in Subverting Beauty: African […]

  Andrea Boston | 05.21.2019

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  A Secret Map and Layers of Meaning

  “Here I have a story about the Emancipation of people in needle and thread and fabric,” Joyce J. Scott has said about Plantation, a quilt that her mother created.   Plantation depicts two perspectives—one of a starry night sky, and the other of the fields below—collapsed together into a single composition. The constellation of stars […]

  Melanie Martin | 05.15.2019