• 

  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.

• 

  Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young in Conversation with Arthur Jafa, Part 3

  Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young’s Back and Song considers the labor and care provided by generations of black healers, including their historic contributions to and resistance of Western medicine’s flawed and discriminatory structures.

• 

  A Timeline of The Freedom Quilting Bee

  At the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the quilters of a small, rural town in Alabama founded the Freedom Quilting Bee. The woman-led cooperative used their craft skills to establish new forms of income and expand their quilting audience.

• 

  Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young in Conversation With Arthur Jafa, Part 2

  Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young’s Back and Songconsiders the labor and care provided by generations of black healers, including their historic contributions to and resistance of Western medicine’s flawed and discriminatory structures. The Baltimore-based artists’ four-channel video installation is on view through January 3, 2021, in the Contemporary Wing of The Baltimore Museum of Art.

• Gold Barbra by Deborah Kass

  Each about 4-feet tall, the Gold Barbras debuted at the Simon Watson Gallery. A few months later, Kass made more and scaled the works up for her solo at José Freire’s gallery, Fiction/Nonfiction.