Cara Ober

Baltimore

Editor-in-Chief at BmoreArt

Editor-in-Chief & Publisher at BmoreArt @bmoreart1 / Artist, Writer, Curator, & Educator

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Baltimore art exhibits in March that foster a connection to place

Mar 8, 2025 | 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.
Baltimore art exhibits in February that will restore your faith in humanity

Feb 1, 2025 | 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.
BmoreArt’s 4 must-see art exhibits in Baltimore this December

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.
Bigger Than Sky: Barry Nemett's Painting at Arting Gallery

Nov 15, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Cara Ober |Edgar Degas

Rhythms and Strips in Retrospect at Arting Gallery November 11, 2024 Words: , Craig Hankin The story goes that Edgar Degas, late in life, sat in a café with a few friends discussing their inevitable demise. When Degas’ turn came, he said firmly, “I don’t want a funeral oration.”There was a hush of surprise. After a moment, Degas turned to the illustrator Forain and declared, “Yes, Forain, you will give one.
Ada Pinkston is Not Your Superwoman

Nov 15, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Cara Ober |Ada Pinkston

The Artist's Mixed-Media Exhibit at Transformer DC Interrogates America's Expectations of Black Women November 4, 2024 Words: , Seshat Yon’shea Walker As we anticipate this week’s election, and the historic possibility that it may finally result in America’s first Black woman president, Transformer has launched its 22nd exhibition series with Baltimore artist Ada Pinkston’s solo exhibition, I’m Not Your Superwoman.
Private Faces, Public Spaces: Elliot Doughtie

Nov 15, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Cara Ober |Laurence Ross |Elliot Doughtie

Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation) November 13, 2024 Words: , Laurence Ross Photography: Vivian Marie Doering Velcro, zippers, and loads of elastic. Combination locks, bathroom stalls, and cloudy shower doors. Is a locker room the pinnacle site of all human transformation? We enter wearing one set of clothes and leave wearing another; we shift from one part of our day to the next; we sweat, bathe, dry, dress.
Must-see Baltimore and D.C. museum shows this October

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.
5 art exhibits in Baltimore this September that defy expectations

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.
Washington Post Cancels Regional Arts Column Effective Immediately

Aug 20, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Cara Ober |Brian Stelter

Yet Again, Short-Sighted Newspaper Leadership Fails to Understand the Difference Between Quantity and Quality of ReadershipIn an email sent on August 19 to a list of undisclosed recipients including DC-based galleries, artists, and curators, longterm Washington Post art critic Mark Jenkins sent the following statement. “My editors at the Washington Post have decided to end the galleries column. The last one will run in the Aug. 25 paper,” he wrote. “I’m very sorry to send you this news.
Op-Ed: Maryland Arts Funding Cuts in 2024 Impact Everyone

Aug 9, 2024 | bmoreart.com | Cara Ober |Jeannie Howe

Despite MD’s Standing in the Top 3 for Arts Funding, Governor Wes Moore Included a $437,000 Cut to MD State Arts Council FundingAugust 9, 2024Words:, Jeannie L. HoweAn under-appreciated hallmark of arts funding on the national and local levels in the United States is its historically bipartisan support.