What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Michael Cataldi did two installation series in Baltimore several years ago called Tire Swings and Flower-Pot-Holes. He would carry a spool of rope with him as he wandered through the city, and wherever he found an abandoned tire by the side of a road [...]

This semester, University of Baltimore is offering a poster design class that meets at Globe Poster. How cool is that? And tonight UB opens an exhibition of Globe's iconic work, with Globe's Bob and Frank Cicero attending. The show runs through December 16.

John Waters turned up on PRI's The Takeaway yesterday talking about his new art exhibition, Rear Projection, which opened last week at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. His usual witty and urbane self, Waters discusses various pieces, including sculptures inspired by Ike and Tina Turner, roach traps, and facial cream. A concurrent show of [...]

If you haven't checked out the Laure Drogoul retrospective (Follies, Predicaments, and Other Conundrums) at MICA, you have a few more days. It's a fascinating, whimsical, absurd, and sprawling show, one that speaks to the free-wheeling creative spirit that flourishes in this city. Over the past two decades, Drogoul has been an integral part of [...]

The Jewish Museum celebrates Purim this Thursday night with an intriguing mix of acrobatics (contortionist Lisa Appel), music (DJ Booth), spirits (beer and wine), and the art of graphic novelist JT Waldman, whose illustrations for Megillat Esther—an edgy take on the Book of Esther—will be exhibited at the museum. The party starts at 8 p.m. [...]

Katie Miller will be exhibiting her work at this year's Armory Show (March 5-7) in New York. It's quite an honor for the Parkton artist. Here's some more info...

Miller recently won the prestigious Wynn Newhouse Award, one of four $15,000 grants for artists with disabilities. This year, the jury consisted of Phong Bui, Chuck Close, [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
A Mark Rothko retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1998. Standing in a large room with those large, luminescent works vibrating all around me caused the realization that the strongest art is that which causes those experiencing it to feel. That's the response I'm [...]

Tonight's birthday party for Joyce Scott (who's turning 60) at MAP dovetails nicely with her new show, Painful Death/Painless Life, at Goya. The exhibit, which opened today, runs through January 23rd and features some of Scott's finest, and most provocative, work.
But first things first... Happy birthday, Joyce!
Puddin' loves ya.

Tomorrow, one of the six finalists for the annual Janet and Walter Sondheim Award will pocket a $25,000 prize. The award ceremony is scheduled for 7 pm at the BMA, where an excellent exhibit of the finalists' work is on display through August 3rd.
If the school children visiting the BMA on Wednesday afternoon were [...]

Two details from Matthew Kern's mixed media piece at Gallery Imperato.