Arts

At the BMA's new "The Culture" exhibition, Brooklyn-raised artist Texas Isaiah shows how hip-hop culture can be incorporated into spiritual practice.

This weekend, Bowie State University will name the theater at its performing arts center after the music icon.

Claribel and Etta Cone brought a premier collection of European modern art home to Baltimore and played a major role in establishing the Baltimore Museum of Art’s national and international reputation. They corresponded with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse and purchased works by both artists early in their careers.

Walters employees have been working toward this goal for nearly two years — and they’re still not done.

Myrtis Bedolla brought her “Afro-Futurist Manifesto” to the Venice Biennale in 2022, and now Baltimoreans can visit the expansive show at different places across the city.

The Baltimore Museum of Industry is offering a free virtual program on March 28 that looks at the Black women who desegregated a number of industries in Baltimore during the civil rights movement. The discussion is part of the museum’s efforts to honor Women’s History Month, which ends March 31.

“Being a history museum is more of a choice, not really a necessity,” executive director Sol Davis said of the institution’s turn toward contemporary art.

The Baltimore arts college is among a number of small institutions finding themselves at a painful crossroads as the dust from the pandemic settles.

Baltimore-based artist Juliet Ames is known for her salt box art, and she took it a step further Tuesday by adding a new function that dogs are sure to love.

Museum workers have been trying to form a union for two years, but the effort ran into thorny legal and political issues. In Maryland, workers at government agencies often need to have a state law approved in order to begin the process of forming a union.

Why was the mural that said “HOME THIS MUST BE THE PLACE” in South Baltimore painted over?

More job layoffs are expected at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where administrators say plunging undergraduate enrollment has effectively made the historic city arts institution a smaller college.

To help you keep track and update your playlists, here’s the most noteworthy new indie rock, punk, folk and experimental music of the past month from the area.

Childhood depiction with muskrat offers glimpse of her survival during enslavement

Notre Dame of Maryland guest curator Casey McKeel created art workshops for some of Maryland’s incarcerated women, whose collages, paintings and audio are now on display at Gormley Gallery.

Winfield is only the second comedian to get a golden buzzer on the show.

Abdu Ali goes in depth about their new USA Fellowship, the struggles of being a consistent artist and how arts institutions in Baltimore can do better.

Popular Baltimore mosaic artist Loring Cornish, no stranger to political work, is using the works in his new Hampden gallery to fight against rising antisemitism and foster solidarity.

As we move on from Rihanna’s halftime show performance, we’re left with one question: Who is next to take stage?

Actor and singer Keith Snipes recalls how the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center provided the foundation for his training as an artist. Decades after his first time there, he credits the center with training countless young, aspiring performing artists and making a difference in their lives.