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1 month ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt to provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. The revolution will be local. In an age when almost everyone owns goods made by a smattering of global companies, our connection to place can feel diminished. Our news is global. Our shopping is global. Prioritizing our local landscape and its rich history, food and culture becomes a battle.
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2 months ago | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. Jan 27, 2025Jan 23, 2025Is it me or is this winter extra bleak? Everything is freezing or on fire, the news is dire and toxic political absurdity is taking up way too much space in my brain. On a personal note, I have failed already at becoming a better version of myself in 2025.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. Why are paintings the most highly valued objects in an art auction? Why is glass sculpture considered corny by art snobs? For most of my lifetime, I have observed a clear distinction between art and craft, especially in museums.
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Aug 31, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. I had a writing professor in college who explicitly forbade our class to use the word “crisp” when describing autumn. She said it was a writing cliché — a literary insult to the glorious transition of summer into fall.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
citybiz.co | Cara Ober |Bmore Art |William Harris
Dereck Stafford Mangus, a beloved Baltimore-based artist, writer, and cultural worker, passed away on Sunday, July 7 at the age of 46. His death was confirmed by his brother-in-law Peter Melish. I met Dereck Mangus close to a decade ago at the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), where he worked as a museum guard and where I attended countless press events as an arts journalist.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. Summer is the slowest season in the art world, a much-needed respite before fall blockbuster exhibitions. During our longest and most languid days, the art market contracts, patrons go on holiday and artists flock to their studios.
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May 5, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. Materials are underrated in the art world. While gallery wall text tends to focus on an artist’s bio, politics, aesthetics or style, the reality is these can all alienate viewers — but materials offer kinship, beckoning with near universal appeal.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. Art galleries have always held a sort of mystique for me. While I adore being able to see some of the best (and worst) new art up close and free of charge, if I am being totally honest, these spaces can also be intimidating and confusing.
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Mar 10, 2024 | 
thebaltimorebanner.com | Cara Ober |Bmore Art
This story is part of a partnership with The Baltimore Banner and BmoreArt that will provide monthly pieces focusing on the region’s artists, galleries and museums. For more stories like this, visit BmoreArt.com. What does it say about our city’s pool of talent that the work of so many visual artists is being exhibited and collected across the country?
