A Video Game Lets You Take Back Looted Artifacts An indie game studio in South Africa has developed a heist adventure that reframes play, memory, and repatriation.

In a new video game, players can join a heist crew to take back looted African artifacts from museums, but there’s even more at stake: Users must learn musical rhythms, consult elders, and participate in ceremonies to reactivate the social meaning of these objects.

BmoreArt's Picks: December 16-22 - BmoreArt This Week: Baltimore Clayworks presents a virtual artist talk with Shayla Marsh, BSO Classical Christmas, City Arts Spotlight with Patti Tronolone, IN Series The Delta King’s Blues at 2640 Space, Dirt...

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“A Little Bit Nasty”: A Conversation with J Taran Diamond - BmoreArt J Taran Diamond tends to keep to her home—outside of work and her Sunday-morning jaunts to Catalog Coffee. But you may find the metalsmith and craft educator on the street collecting synthetic hair. “...

Interview with J Taran Diamond, Jewelry Artist

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BmoreArt's Picks: December 2-8 - BmoreArt This Week: Dara Lorenzo tour + lecture at Goucher Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore Cinematic Universe at SNF Parkway, Ernest Cole gallery talk + reception at MICA Meyerhoff Gallery, Samantha Sethi artist ...

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The best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

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The True America: Recovered Photographs by Ernest Cole Offer a Time Capsule of Harlem - BmoreArt The recent re-opening of the Studio Museum in Harlem has offered a chance to celebrate Black visual makers and reminisce about Manhattan’s 125th Street as it looked in 1968, when the museum first open...

The True America: Recovered Photographs by Ernest Cole Offer a Time Capsule of Harlem
Discovery of More Than 60,000 Negatives Brings Extraordinary Exhibit to MICA

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May Day Anti-Trump Protest in Baltimore - BmoreArt

Photos: May Day Anti-Trump Protest in Baltimore | On May 1 Protests in Baltimore to Stop the Billionaire Takeover
May 2, 2025
Words: J.M. Giordano
Photography: J.M. Giordano

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The Capacities of Abstract Thought: Adam Pendleton's "Love, Queen" - BmoreArt Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen at the Hirshhorn By Coley Gray When artist Adam Pendleton was growing up in Richmond, Virginia, … Continued

The Capacities of Abstract Thought: Adam Pendleton’s “Love, Queen” ❤️👑
In Solo Show at the Hirshhorn, the Abstract Artist Offers Moments of Reflection Within Ambiguity
April 28, 2025
Words: Coley Gray

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Celebrate Earth Day with Two Exhibitions at the Crow's Nest - BmoreArt

Celebrate Earth Day with Two Exhibitions at the Crow’s Nest
The Group Show "Ecocide" and a Window Installation by Taina Litwak Confront Environmental Violence
April 21, 2025
Words: Adriana Vélez

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BmoreArt's Picks: April 22-28 - BmoreArt BmoreArt's Picks: May 23-30 This Week: We are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

This Week: Earth Day events at The Crow’s Nest, screening of Anacostia Portraits at DC Film Fest, the CityLit Festival Poetry Finale at Red Emma’s, Creative Alliance 30th Anniversary Marquee Ball, Baker Artist Awards Celebration at the BMA, and more!!

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BmoreArt Photos: ONE FIGHT, ONE FUTURE, Hosted by Free State Coalition, Photos by Elena Volkova

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Introducing the Next Generation of Talent: Akeelah and the Bee at Baltimore Center Stage - BmoreArt By the time Doechii’s viral hit “Anxiety” blasts during the blackout at the end of Act I, the audience is … Continued

Ushering in a partnership with Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore Center Stage's production of Akeelah and the Bee features BSA freshmen and sophomore students in the majority of its roles. Onstage through April 13th.

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Opening night Amy Sherald: American Sublime @whitneymuseum
Exhibit Apr 9–Aug 10, 2025

Paintings of such ordinary Americans join her iconic portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and, heartbreakingly, Breonna Taylor, to produce a resonant ode to the multiplicity and complexity of American identity.

BmoreArt News: ‘Strong, Bright, Useful & True’ Exhibition, Baker Artist Awards, LaToya Hobbs
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
March 27, 2025
Words: Rebecca Juliette

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Smoke, Fog, and Altered Visions: Air Quality at the BMA - BmoreArt Smoke, Fog, and Altered Visions: Air Quality at the BMA Kerr Houston In an endearing 2008 video, the street artist … Continued

Why would an artist prefer pollution?? Smoke, Fog, and Altered Visions: Air Quality at the BMA, A Survey of Candor and Commitment to Realistic Depiction
March 26, 2025
Words: Kerr Houston

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The South Hill Experiment's Baltimore Homecoming - BmoreArt The South Hill Experiment (S.H.E.) consists of brothers Baird and Gabe Acheson, who dropped their third album, EARTHBREAKS, on March … Continued

The South Hill Experiment’s Baltimore Homecoming -
Hot on the Heels of a New Album Release, the Brothers Acheson Bring Their Brand of Genre-Melding Pop to Metro Gallery on April 3rd
March 27, 2025
Words: Xandi Egginton

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Growing the Future, Word by Word: The 22nd Annual CityLit Festival - BmoreArt The CityLit Festival, now in its 22nd year, is both a celebration of literature and a reminder that advocating for … Continued

Growing the Future, Word by Word: The 22nd Annual CityLit Festival
A Conversation with Two of This Year's Spotlighted Authors, Michele Filgate and Dominique Christina
March 28, 2025
Words: Abdul Ali

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BmoreArt's Picks: March 25-31 - BmoreArt BmoreArt's Picks: May 23-30 This Week: We are featuring online events that you can view from the comfort of your own couch. Stay home, stay healthy, stay engaged in the arts.

BmoreArt’s Picks: March 25-31 ✨💥 The best weekly art openings, events, and calls for entry happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas.

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Finalists announced for the 2025 Baker Artist Awards - BmoreArt Finalists announced for the 2025 Baker Artist Awards  36 artists selected from the Baker Artist Portfolios  BALTIMORE, MD – The … Continued

Congrats !!! Baker Artist Award finalists are divided equally amongst the website’s six artistic disciplines: visual, literary, interdisciplinary, film/ video, performance and music.

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Who keeps the peace? And how? At the BMA today… Nari Ward “Peace Keeper” 🤯🦚☠️ 1995/2020

Ward tarred the severed and immobilized hearse with black grease and peacock feathers, placed it on a bed of tailpipes, and enclosed it in a foreboding cage underneath a cloud of car mufflers.

The Psychotherapist Who Specializes in Artists: Meet David Neale-Lorello - BmoreArt David Neale-Lorello is a renaissance man. Even as a child, his interests were vast and reflected a deep curiosity about … Continued

Do Creatives Actually Have an Advantage When It Comes to Mental Health? Meet The Psychotherapist Who Specializes in Artists: David Neale-Lorello

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February 24, 2025
Words: Elizabeth Hazen
Photography: Justin Tsucalas

The Difference between Art and Propaganda? If art is a "floating signifier" - what does this mean for us during an age of toxic politics?

Art is a “floating signifier”– it is symbolic and absorbs its meaning from whatever the viewer brings to it, and this may have nothing to do with the original intent of the artist or patron who commissioned it.

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Amazing Art Viewing Technology for the Low Vision Community - created by a Baltimore-based Innovator and JHU CBID Graduate.

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Keeping Baltimore Jazz Weird Meet the organizations and artists carrying on Charm City's storied DIY tradition.

Bandcamp feature on #Baltimore's "weird" jazz scene. (it's not _that_ weird)

Re-evaluating the Guerrilla Girls for Today’s Politics A mini-retrospective of the feminist collective raises the question: What can be learned from this work that applies to today, and is this an effective method of making change?

What can be learned from the Guerrilla Girls that can be applied to the present? And is this work an effective method of making change?

Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.

The president intends to replace members of the institution’s board as he adopts a more aggressive approach toward the arts.

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BmoreArt News: Glenstone Museum, Amy Sherald, Savannah G.M. Wood - BmoreArt Glenstone Museum announces new exhibitions, the sublime Amy Sherald, Savannah G.M. Wood awarded Tabb Center humanities fellowship, from France to … Continued

This week’s news includes: Glenstone Museum announces new exhibitions, the sublime Amy Sherald, Savannah G.M. Wood awarded Tabb Center humanities fellowship, with reporting from local and independent news sources.

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Not All Superheroes Wear Capes, Some Don Gorilla Masks This one-room exhibition is a good reminder of how this anonymous group of artists changed how we saw the art world.

I wrote about the current Guerrilla Girls exhibition at Hannah Traore gallery and how they changed the art world. #NYC

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4 February Art Exhibits that will Restore your Faith in Humanity - BmoreArt Is it me or is this winter extra bleak? Everything is freezing or on fire, the news is dire, and … Continued

4 February Art Exhibits that will Restore your Faith in Humanity ✨🧨 Visual Art that Feeds the Soul, Inspires the Mind, and Wrests Me Out of the Grip of Wintry Online Malaise
February 1, 2025
Words: Cara Ober

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Don’t Abandon Maryland’s Legacy of Arts Investment
Opinion Editorial by Nicholas Cohen, ED at Maryland Citizens for the Arts
January 30, 2025
Words: Nicholas Cohen

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