Walking through Fells Point, I recently popped into the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Museum and checked out Stillness in Movement, an exhibit of Jim Condron paintings. Condron specializes in large oils of nature scenes, and a few of those pieces are on display. But the real gems here are his much smaller, more evocative paintings [...]

Early on, Patti Smith pulls the reader into this intriguing memoir, which chronicles her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe....
It was the summer Coltrane died. The summer of "Crystal Ships." Flower children raised their empty arms and China exploded the H-bomb. Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames in Monterey. AM radio played "Ode to Billie [...]

The show about to close at the Crystal Moll Gallery in Federal Hill feels like an extension of the magazine's See Hear project a few years ago. Gathering cityscapes from various painters—in this case, Bill Tamburrino (see above), Stewart White, Will Williams, Bill Wilson, and Moll—it casts an artistic gaze on the nooks and crannies [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
There are so many pieces of art, music, and literature that have changed and shaped my life!  I would just have to grab one of so many out of the ether. One song that really affected me exemplifies artistic struggle and the power of [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?

I was taught by Jacques Maroger (a painter and the technical director of the Louvre in Paris) and he always told us how wonderful Peter Paul Rubens was. In this country, though, most of the people with the means to purchase art bought religious [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
I know immediately what that would be. In college, in '92, a friend and I took a pilgrimage to Howard Finster's Paradise Garden, and it completely changed my life. The drive down [to Summerville, Georgia] was amazing. Personally, I was in a very selfish [...]

While doing some last minute Christmas shopping at Artist & Craftsman, I took these shots of the graffiti behind Load of Fun (at North and Howard).

The latest addition to Baltimore's impressive mural program was unveiled in Govans this afternoon. Community leaders and children from Govans Elementary School joined artist Lyle Kissack (left) for the dedication at the intersection of York Road and Benninghaus Avenue.
Kissack's "Steelworkers" mural (a collaboration with Gerald Ross) was featured in Baltimore a few years ago.
For pics [...]

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What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
As the child of a painter, the visual arts were part of my consciousness even before music.  And the work of art which molded me was my father’s own Fulbright Triptych, a work in three panels measuring 14 feet by 8 feet, showing his [...]

Artist Grace Hartigan left paintings valued at more than $1 million to MICA and MAP, according to officials from both institutions. Hartigan, who passed away last November, reportedly left 12 canvasses to MICA and five to MAP, and her gifts will likely be used to fund scholarships and future projects. More details can be found [...]