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The BMA at 110: A Selection of Milestones, 1914 to 2024
In the wake of the Great Fire that destroyed much of Baltimore in 1904, the city’s civic leaders rallied around the belief that a great city needed a great museum. From this beginning, the Baltimore Museum of Art has grown into a major cultural destination that cares for an internationally celebrated collection of more than […]
Amanda Sparrow | 11.13.2024 -
Infinite Weight
Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum is a wide-reaching project that proposes Indigenizing interventions to address and refuse the oppressive hierarchies of coloniality that pervade the realm of culture and serve as the underpinning of museums. The project encompasses community engagement, a series of nine monographic and thematic exhibitions, institutional interventions, public programs, and an untraditional catalog. In […]
Staff | 10.16.2024 -
Joyce J. Scott: Walk a Mile in My Dreams
A fifty-year career retrospective of one of the most significant artists of our time “I actually believe art is one of the engines causing the Earth to rotate.” —Joyce J. Scott Mentor and matriarch, consummate artist, avowed trickster, and always an inspiration: Joyce J. Scott has spent five decades creating dazzling, genre-defying art, fostering creative […]
Staff | 05.07.2024 -
Imagining Harriet Tubman’s Visionary Being with Nekisha Durrett
For the current exhibition Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett, on view in the John Waters Rotunda and adjacent galleries, Washington, D.C-based artist Nekisha Durrett turned to the legacy of Harriet Tubman for her installation Frontier. Instead of a traditional portrait of Tubman, Durrett has produced an abstract study of Tubman’s […]
Colleen Kennedy | 12.13.2023 -
Baltimore and World War II’s Impact on Artist Matsumi Kanemitsu
One of the first Japanese American servicemen detained in the wake of Pearl Harbor drew on personal experience to develop his work outside of formal training Few people are aware that West Coast abstract artist and influential college educator Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922-1992), or Mike as he was known to his friends, spent his formative years […]
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A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
The Great Migration (1915–70) saw more than six million African Americans leave the South for destinations across the United States. Now open at the BMA, A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores how this pivotal period in American history transformed nearly every aspect of Black life and culture through newly commissioned […]
Staff | 11.16.2022 -
A Glimpse into the Dorman-Mazaroff PDP Center
When the Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs opened last December, its relocation from the third floor to the first granted the PDP Department more space and flexibility. The PDP Department’s work strategically centers access—both digital and physical—to the BMA’s collection of more than 67,000 prints, drawings, […]
Rob Kempton | 10.24.2022 -
Honoring Valerie Maynard’s “Human-Beingness”
Impossible things happen when you come upon Valerie Maynard’s work, wrote Toni Morrison in July 1989 for the introduction to Maynard’s lithographic portfolio, Lost and Found. In a career that spanned more than six decades, the artist told the stories of our time, documenting the struggle for civil rights worldwide and capturing what the artist […]
Staff | 09.23.2022 -
Spray Paint, Surprise, and Wonder
Looking at the work of Katharina Grosse What?! She made that with paint? That’s a lot of paint! She did that on a house?! These are the reactions I received when I showed my young daughters a photograph of Katharina Grosse’s Rockaway, the artist’s 2016 commission for MoMA PS1—a transformation of the derelict Fort Tilden […]
Virginia Anderson | 04.10.2020 -
How the Black Abstract Exhibition Moves America Away from Anemic Art History
Editor’s Note: This essay was originally written for a guidebook that accompanies Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art. The book is available for free to all exhibition visitors. You can read more from Bridget R. Cooks in her award-winning book Exhibiting Blackness. With the occasion of Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art comes […]
Bridget R. Cooks | 10.03.2019
