Story Tag: BMA Stories
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16 New Acquisitions on View This Summer
This summer, sixteen new acquisitions make their BMA debut. Below, read about three of these recent additions and plan your next visit with a comprehensive list of new works on view and a map of where to find all sixteen.
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The Hip-Hop History of Pharrell Williams’ Buffalo Hat
The iconic hat worn by Williams is on view in The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century. It’s one of the more than 90 works that show how hip hop has reconstructed the contemporary canon of music, fashion, and art from the streets to runways and galleries,
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All Eyes on Me
The exhibition catalog features New York-based writer and curator Ebony L. Haynes’ phenomenal format-breaking foreword, All Eyes on Me, published below.
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A Legacy That Can’t Be Celebrated in Silence
For the exhibition, Baltimore-based musicians-producers Abdu Ali and Wendel Patrick created a 45-minute soundscape that plays throughout the galleries. For it, they mixed and reinterpreted hip hop’s greatest artists, influences, and allusions with ambient sounds from camera shutters clicking to vinyl scratching.
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Watch the Throne
Asma Naeem, BMA Dorothy Wagner Wallis Director, explores hip hop’s ever-expanding reach and the role art museums must play in support of the canon in the exhibition catalog’s leading essay excerpted below.
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Recently Retired Senior Registrar Melanie Harwood Reflects on Five Decades at the BMA
When Melanie Harwood began volunteering at the BMA in 1972, she had no idea that she was embarking on a 50-year career at the Museum.
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Five Most Loved Artworks at the BMA
Hearts for Art returned this past Valentine’s Day weekend, and votes for the favorite artworks of 2023 have officially been counted.
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From the Ground Up
Since the 1940s, fragments of floor mosaics from the homes of cosmopolitan elites of those metropolitan locales have adorned the walls of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s colloquially named Antioch Court.
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Joseph Education Center to Reopen in Fall 2023 with Hands-On Learning Experiences
The transformation of the Patricia and Mark Joseph Education Center will include interactives, touchscreens, and technology to support learning activities that resonate with today’s students.
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Coming Attractions: John Waters In Conversation with Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson
Photographer Catherine Opie and multimedia artist Jack Pierson spoke with filmmaker, producer, writer, artist, collector, and BMA Trustee John Waters in his Baltimore dining room in January 2022 to discuss the underlying themes of his art collection.