Transfixed with Transmodern

We are still wrapping our minds around what we saw during our odyssey through the H&H building, tricked out for the Transmodern festival. From the outre–giant teeth-like installations jutting up from the ground–to terrifically engaging exhibits like human Foosball, foot baths, and a DIY tamale stand, the festival pretty much had us at hello.
Truthfully, our [...]

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Art Marts of Baltimore

Desperate to attempt to avoid Towson Town Center for the holidays (piped in elevator cheer, greasy teryiaki food court samples, chock-a-block scrunchie carts) I have been scouring the City Paper for alternative gift markets.
Last week, we hit the Lyric Opera for the Winter Art Mart , a one-stop gift source if everyone on your Christmas list is a recycled cotton-lunchbag [...]

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“Fun” Exhibit Makes New Yorker’s best-of art list

The November 3 issue of The New Yorker features a two-page review on a Baltimore art event remarkable for the omissions of adjectives that, in critics’ vocabulary, sit predictably, cloyingly close in paragraphs to “Baltimore”: gritty, murderous, and quirky–the latter, loathsome for its ubiquity in paragraphs by sneering travel writers.*
New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl [...]

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