• A Fierce Education

  first met Sharon Lockhart in Israel in 2011. I’d been invited to contribute an essay to the catalog for Lockhart’s project on choreographer Noa Eshkol, soon to premiere at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

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  Lightning Strikes Twice

  Through Bloomberg Connects, we find out gallery attendants Brielle Lee and Rachel Hawthorne both selected Erica Deeman’s Untitled 18 (2013),a stunning photographic portrait of a Black woman in profile.

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  Designing Making Her Mark

  In this interview, BMA Exhibition Designer David Zimmerman shares his experience transforming the galleries to present the 235 works on view in Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800.

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  Making Her Mark: A History Of Women Artists In Europe, 1400–1800

  For centuries, art historians have accepted the characterization of European women artists from the pre modern era as rare and comparatively less talented than their male counterparts. This assumption is now being turned on its head with a groundbreaking exhibition that presents a more accurate and expansive presentation of women’s creative accomplishments.

• A Puzzling Plate from 18th Century China

  An unusually high level of skill was required to create this segmented plate’s complex shape; delicate porcelain body; beautifully bright enamel decoration of insects, flowers, and fruit; and intricately detailed border.

• Baltimore and World War II’s Impact on Artist Matsumi Kanemitsu

  One of the first Japanese American servicemen detained in the wake of Pearl Harbor drew on personal experience to develop his work outside of formal training.

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  A Teapot and Our Thirst for Fossil Fuels

  Teetering on a ceramic oil rig, Pecten Shell Teapot refashions centuries-old art motifs and porcelain recipes to tell a story about today’s environmental crisis.

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  Jackie Milad Confronts Museums’ Complicated Histories

  Baltimore-based artist Jackie Milad has created four new works for the exhibition Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett, currently on view in the John Waters Rotunda and adjacent galleries.

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  Bark Cloth Defies Categorization

  As much of a textile as it is a painted canvas or a work on paper, barkcloth—made from the inner bark of trees—confounds Western notions of art.

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  A Night Supporting the BMA and The Last Resort Artist Retreat

  On Sunday, June 25, the BMA’s newly-appointed Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director Asma Naeem and BMA Board Chair James D. Thornton will host A Midsummer Night’s Gala, an art benefit supporting the BMA and a group of extraordinary artists connected to the Baltimore region.