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.
The Experiment Realized, What Happens Next?
In the final days of the groundbreaking exhibition Guarding the Art, curator and Museum guard Rob Kempton offers an analysis of what it has meant to serve as a curator and how it has—at least for now—changed the relationship between guard and visitor at the BMA.
Joan Mitchell’s Weeds, 1976
When Xavier Fourcade visited Joan Mitchell at La Tour in June 1976 to lay the groundwork for her exhibition at his New York gallery that fall, Weeds was well underway but not quite finished, as a photograph of Fourcade in Mitchell’s studio attests: the painting leans against the wall behind him, its two panels pushed together.
Woodlawn Vase: The Prize of Preakness
Proudly standing just under three feet tall, the Maryland Jockey Club’s lavishly ornate Woodlawn Vase is perhaps the most famous trophy in American sports history and certainly one of the most important pieces of presentation silver in the United States.
Baltimore History Figures Prominently in New Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
This winter, as you step into the Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, look up at the stone archway to see figures of the past welcoming a new present.
Drawn To: Charles Mason III Reflects on Sister Lu by Mark di Suvero
Mark di Suvero’s Sister Lu sits at the top of an incline in the BMA’s Ryda and Robert H. Levi Sculpture Garden.
From Baltimore, Maryland, to Amman, Jordan, Skateboarding Makes the World Go Round
To the BMA’s Dave Eassa, few sounds are as familiar as skateboard wheels hitting the pavement and gliding over concrete.
Win a Gee’s Bend-Inspired Community Quilt
. One year into the pandemic, the event brought together quilters and novices across the country to learn from members of the African American Quilters of Baltimore (AAQB), a dedicated group of textile artists who have made quilts of extraordinary craftsmanship and beauty over the years.