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 [...]

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 [...]

What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
I must say that the question of 1 piece of art, music, film that changed my life is difficult because there are many...Many!
I could easily give you a list of 20 off the top of my head. I had narrowed it down [...]

This biennial exhibition is always a treat. Featuring commissioned works installed outdoors at Evergreen House, it includes pieces affixed to the house, jutting between columns (pictured above, Sharon Engelstein's Green Golly), sitting on the lawn, stretched over a creek, and tucked away in the woods. It's intriguing, fascinating, whimsical, and flat-out fun. Through September 28th.

This site specific Mary Evans installation, which is part of the BMA's Meditations on African Art exhibit, stopped me in my tracks last week. An innovative and contemporary take on patterns in African art, its silhouetted figures might trigger comparisons to Kara Walker. Amazingly, Evans created these patterns with butcher's paper. And it all gets [...]

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An impressive crowd of admirers, students, friends, and family turned out yesterday for Les Harris' memorial service at Clipper Mill. Harris, who passed away at his Bolton Hill home in January, taught at Park School and spent decades creating an elaborate, visionary installation of paintings and sculpture that he called the Amaranthine Museum. The speakers included Sally [...]

Watching the Gold Fence controversy unfold in Mount Vernon—in the days prior to the launch of this site—it was frustrating to see the parameters of the conversation remain so narrow. I understand the dogwalkers and bench sitters were inconvenienced, dismayed, and outraged. I got that within hours of the fences’ installation. And I also understand [...]