Blogs: Arts and Minds

About a month back, we heard that Darsie Alexander, the Baltimore Museum of Art’s senior curator for contemporary art, would be leaving her post soon, but we didn’t know where she was going until today. Alexander will become the chief curator at the esteemed Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. (See the arts brief announcements...
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You know the fall arts season is hitting stride when there are almost more openings than hours in the day. Just try keeping tabs on this weekend’s lineup. Chul-Hyun Ahn’s “Infinity – Patter” at C. Grimaldis Gallery Thursday, Sept. 4 Snatch It Back and Hold It: New works by Che’ Smith and Rick Santiago...
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Boston’s Alloy Orchestra is familiar to any Maryland Film Festival moviegoer who has caught any of the trio’s scores to classic silent films during the festival’s run. Tonight, the Alloy Orchestra presents the East Coast premiere of its new score to Josef von Sternberg’s 1928 The Last Command, being presented with a new print...
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Los Tenedores Los Tenedores–the local troupe of Theresa Columbus, Andy Hershberger, Freda Mohr, and Elisa Urtiaga–perform at Minás Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m. August Wilson’s 1982 play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom opens the Vagabond Players‘ 93rd consecutive season Sept. 5 and runs through Sept. 28. New theater company 3 Hands Clapping premieres its What’s...
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A still from Proud Flesh Being an on-again/off-again YouTube junkie, sometimes I don’t always catch new material when it’s posted. But while trolling for some local out-music info, I ran across the trailer for the Chiara Giovando and Jenny Graf Sheppard movie Proud Flesh that Sheppard posted about two months back. (See below.) If...
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After debuting in the spring of 2002 with an ad campaign that made it look like just another cop show, The Shield begins its final season tonight on FX, and I have to admit I’m a little saddened knowing that Michael Chiklis’ Vic Mackey only has 13 more episodes to commit absolutely immoral acts...
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James Ransone | Image by “borrowed” from www.20minutes.fr Media outlets all over the country spilled gallons of ink (and buckets of pixels and ions) singing the praises of David Simon and Ed Burns’ The Wire during its five-season run, City Paper not least among them. Many Wire fans here and beyond the walls of...
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Sabbatical Exhibition Decker Gallery, Fox Building, 1303 Mount Royal Ave. Aug. 22-Sept. 7 Reception: Thursday, Sept. 5, 5-7 p.m. The Maryland Institute College of Art starts off its fall 2008 exhibition schedule with an annual trio of shows featuring the works of students, faculty, and faculty returning to the fold. The Foundation and Faculty...
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| Image by courtesy maryland institute college of art The Maryland Institute College of Art unveiled its latest campus project and addition to the Baltimore City skyline at a press conference this morning: the Gateway, a mixed-used residential and studio space located at the supremely visible corner of North and Mount Royal avenues. The...
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In a city as in love with its old and idiosyncratic history as Baltimore, it’s often easy to scowl at any and all developmental gentrification. So, yes, let’s all sneer a collective frown at the late arrivals of corporate coffee shops and those “hip,” “urban” (and, perhaps, “unoccupied”) lofts that have sprung up in...
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| Image by From www.zippythepinhead.com Compared to the loss of dozens of newsroom jobs, the dropping of a full page of comic strips is bupkis. But when one of those strips is Zippy the Pinhead, well, I can’t just stand by and stay silent. To be honest, I go hot and cold on Zippy....
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I ride the portion of the Gwynns Falls Trail between Cherry Hill and downtown probably three times a week, not thinking much about safety for the simple reason that I rarely if ever see anyone else down there. Last night was a little different. Approaching the old BGE power station–the future site of the...
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