BMA Stories
BMA Stories is much more than what's on view, though we cover that too! BMA Stories explores the questions art raises, the conversations it sparks, and the stories that surround it.
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration explores how this pivotal period in American history transformed nearly every aspect of Black life and culture through newly commissioned works by twelve acclaimed Black contemporary artists.
A Long View of History
Paintings on view in the African and American art galleries both reflect and transcend the moments in time in which they were made.
Showstoppers
Visitors to the BMA have been stopping in their tracks to take in Simone Leigh’s Meredith, a majestic reinterpretation of Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen currently on view in the Cone Wing.
Look at the Hands of the People — The Work of Valerie Maynard
Bill Gaskins’ poignant reflection on Valerie Maynard’s six-decade career first appeared in the 2020 exhibition catalog, Lost and Found, published by the BMA on the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at the Museum. Maynard, an inimitable artist and mentor who called Baltimore home for the past twenty years passed away on September 19, 2022.
Honoring Valerie Maynard’s “Human-Beingness”
Impossible things happen when you come upon Valerie Maynard’s work, wrote Toni Morrison in July 1989 for the introduction to Maynard’s lithographic portfolio, Lost and Found.
Maryland’s Tobacco-Scented Past Emerges in Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears
In the BMA exhibition Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears, multimedia artist Beatrice Glow centers the smell of tobacco, creating artworks across various media that reflect upon the ties between scent, memory, and emotion.
BMA Partners with the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Through the summer of 2023, the BMA is displaying ten works from the National Museum of Women in the Art’s (NMWA) permanent collection while NMWA renovates its building in Washington, DC.