The global biennial mandate to 'center the margins' begins to fold the works’ map of relations into one of those origami fortune-tellers, leading to a seemingly infinite combination of answers—sometimes maddeningly mismatched to the questions the viewer might be asking.

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On Saturday night, the Creative Alliance will once again host their signature gala event: The Marquee Ball. It’s Baltimore’s costume party to end all costume parties, where artists often spend weeks creating looks that are beautiful, bizarre, and clever. It’s a massive fundraiser that includes live music, dancing, and all kinds of interactive performances. This year’s theme is Illusion, harkening back to the “Golden Age of Magic at the turn of the 20th Century, when the artistry of stage performers, magicians, and illusionists filled us with shock and awe!”

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This Week: MICA Community Art & Service Program exhibition, In the Stacks performance at Peabody Library, City of Artists I closing reception at Connect + Collect, Mari Black at Manor Mill, Open Works yard sale, screening of Black Printmakers of Washington DC at Smithsonian Anacostia, Creative Alliance Marquee Ball: Illusion!, Baker Artist Awards showcase at Baltimore Theatre Project, and Notre Dame of Maryland Senior Thesis exhibition reception at Gormley Gallery — PLUS HCAC artist studio opportunities and more!

With The Hot Wing King, Baltimore Center Stage serves up a lively spread of rapid-fire one-liners, spicy moves, and tender camaraderie that serves as an entree to a discussion of contemporary Black manhood. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Katori Hall brings four gay Black men together at Dwayne’s house for the...

It has been 30 years since MICA’s Annual Benefit Fashion Show (ABFS) began as a Black Student Union program. According to MICA, the fashion show was created by Dr. Frankie Martin and initially designed to highlight students’ creativity and artistry of the African diaspora who were often overlooked. Since then, ABFS has encompassed larger diversity and inclusion initiatives and is one of the year’s most anticipated events on campus. Every year, the ABFS brings together a community of diverse majors, identities, and ethnicities into one dynamic event.

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This Week: Bill Schmidt and scholar Kristen Hileman in conversation at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore School for the Arts Senior Recitals, Work Matters lecture at BMI, Rent Party at Baltimore Museum of Art, Jami Attenberg at Greedy Reads Remington, Out of Order (OOO) and KidOOO at Maryland Art Place, Yeah No: A NOT Symposium on Arts and Regional Perspectives at MICA + Eubie Blake, Baltimore Old Time Festival at BMI, artist talk with Lavett Ballard at Galerie Myrtis, Joyce J. Scott and Tim Tate receptions at Goya, and 2024 Baker Artist Award Finalist Showcase + Miranda Javid and Brendan Sullivan opening receptions at Current — PLUS the Trawick Prize deadline and more featured opportunities!

Hearing the excitement in Carla Du Pree’s voice when she talks about the 2024 CityLit Festival—you just know it’s going to be incredible. “This is a love letter to Baltimore,” says Du Pree, executive director of the CityLit Project, describing the annual festival, now in its 21st year. The line-up of events began with a poetry reading featuring Mahogany L. Brown at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company on April 12; continues with a masterclass by Jami Attenberg at Greedy Reads (Remington location) this Friday, April 19; and culminates with a full-day festival at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall on Saturday, April 20th.

That gritty surface, with its inexplicable warmth, even during the winter (it seemed), gave me the sensation that some of the grit stayed on the palm of my hand and my fingertips. Curiously, though, I would see nothing there as I peered at my hand after removing it from the artwork’s surface. It was as if the grit had disappeared, having seeped into and down through my hand’s and fingers’ epidermal layers to my innermost organisms, where it was providing some weird kind of nourishment.

This week’s news includes: The Charles and The Senator celebrate 85 years, Natalia Ángeles Vieyra becomes the first Curator of Latinx Art at the National Gallery, the BMA launches Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum, John Waters reflects on 78 years, 25th Annual Maryland Film Festival lineup, José Luis Novo returns to Annapolis, Aubrey Plaza cast in Liarmouth, Zander’s employees claim Brendon Hudson owes them money, Lena Stringari appointed Chief of Conservation at the National Gallery, and a German art museum worker hangs his own painting and is fired — with reporting from Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, Baltimore Brew, and other local and independent news sources.

In 2023, hip-hop and Wendel Patrick both turned fifty. In honor of the synchronistic coming-of-age moment, he hosted The Hip Hop At 50 panel discussion at Johns Hopkins in November and co-hosted the 100th session of The Baltimore Boom Bap Society, an improvised hip-hop collective that began in 2011 which he co-curates with Erik Spangler, aka DJ Dubble8.

This Week: Share Your Why artist talk at Motor House, free admission to Walk a Mile in My Dreams + panel discussion with Joyce J. Scott at the BMA, Revolution in our Lifetime roundtable discussion at The Peale, Station North Art Walk, Sprung reception at Waller Gallery, Margaret Atwood lectures at Goucher College, Brandon Woody, Asya Shaw, and Nia June perform to celebrate Elizabeth Talford Scott at the Lewis Museum, artist talk with Sheila Rider at New Door Creative, and Pauline Oliveros documentary screening at UMBC — PLUS Grit Fund application deadline approaches and more featured opportunities!

Art galleries have always held a sort of mystique for me. While I adore being able to see some of the best (and worst) new art up close and free of charge, if I am being totally honest, these spaces can also be intimidating and confusing, with counterintuitive social cues and etiquette. So before I share with you my list of Baltimore art galleries to visit in April, I want to take a moment and unpack what an art gallery is and does, in the hope that it makes readers feel more comfortable visiting these kinds of spaces in the future.

In David Barnett’s exhibition at Arting Gallery, now on view by appointment through June 2, faces, places, and times are topsy-turvied. Exquisitely designed, it’s a smart, tasteful, over-the-top show. Human/animal/mechanized misfits and backdrops are precisely bizarre, as the artist embraces grotesquery and oddity to be an integral part of beauty.

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This Week: MICA Grad Show, David MacDonald artist talk at Clayworks, Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick of LittlePuss Press at Red Emma’s, The Maryland Traditions Archives 10 year anniversary, IMDA MFA Thesis Exhibition opening, Silas Munro at Stevenson University, Jiha Moon at Goucher College, Katie Kameen opening reception at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Theresa Robertson opening reception at Area 405, 2024 Capital Art Book Fair, and Phaan Howng and Andy Yoder opening reception at MONO Practice — PLUS Out of Order + KIDOOO installation and call for volunteers at MAP and more featured opportunties!

The legendary New York dream-pop trio Blonde Redhead played Ottobar on February 24th as the kick-off of their most recent US tour. This year marks not only the 20th anniversary of the release of their significantly turning point album Misery Is A Butterfly but also the 30th anniversary of Blonde Redhead’s formation. I took this opportunity to catch up with vocalist Kazu Makino and reflect on the band’s journey.