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We Went to Baltimore Part 1: The Art Fair that Doesn’t Suck

by Paddy Johnson and Michael Anthony Farley on July 20, 2015
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The Artist-Run Art Fair
Charles Street Garage
1714 Charles Street
Baltimore, MD

What’s on view: 19 booths in a parking garage occupied primarily by artist-run centers. We saw a car covered in white T-shirts, a fish tank filled with waterproof art, two bales of hay wrapped in reproductions of protest-sign messages like “Black Lives Matter,” “I am a Woman,” and “Silence is Compliance.”

Paddy Johnson: This is the best art fair I’ve ever seen.

Michael Anthony Farley: I was blown away by the Artist Run Art Fair.

Find out why after the jump

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Artscape Baltimore Gallery/Survival Guide: Exhibitions

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 15, 2015
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Artscape isn’t just about packed events and performances. Many of the city’s best galleries, museums, and institutions have viewing hours with some knock-out programming.

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Artscape Baltimore Gallery/Survival Guide: Events

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 15, 2015
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If you’re planning to visit Baltimore for the Artscape festival this weekend, this guide helps navigate the back-to-back art openings. If you’re not planning on coming, you should.

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The 2015 Sondheim Prize: Slideshow and Commentary

by Michael Anthony Farley on July 15, 2015
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Highlights from the 10th annual Janet and Walter Sondheim award exhibition: installation, painting, new media, old dirt, and more.

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Visualizing a Gentrifying Downtown Brooklyn

by Michael Anthony Farley on June 12, 2015
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Four photographers look back—and forward—on Downtown Brooklyn’s rapid gentrification since 2010.

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John Waters Wants You to Give to The Contemporary

by Corinna Kirsch on December 9, 2014
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“Hi, I’m John Waters and I love contemporary art because it causes trouble and makes people insane.”

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We Went to Baltimore: The Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition

by Michael Farley Whitney Kimball Corinna Kirsch on July 25, 2014
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We discuss the show with Baltimore City Paper’s art critic (and our Baltimore host for the weekend) Michael Farley, who recently published “Why Prizes Matter”: an argument for why more people need to apply for the Sondheim Prize. We agree with him.

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The Baltimore Highlights Slideshow

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on July 25, 2014
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Highlights from last weekend’s trip to Baltimore include art on an Oculus Rift, Tindr painting, and an artist’s imagining of Robot Christmas.

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Baltimore’s Alternative Art Fair: Mostly Alt

by Corinna Kirsch on July 23, 2014
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Baltimore’s only contemporary art fair takes place in a parking garage. For a moment, I thought I’d been transported back to art school in Chicago, when art actually seemed exciting.

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