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BALTIMORE BEACON — FEBRUARY 2013
From page 27 low visitors, art works and galleries above, below and across from themselves. Another site-specific installation, this one on display through May 5, is by Baltimorebased street artist Gaia, whose work usually graces exterior spaces. For this project, Gaia created portraits of individuals living in the BMA’s neighboring Remington community, inspired by one of the museum’s iconic
Impressionist paintings, “Vahine no te vi” (Woman of the Mango) by Paul Gauguin. In conjunction with the reopening of the contemporary wing, the BMA has also released a new mobile website — “BMA Go Mobile” (www.gomobileartbma.org) — that includes every work in the wing, 33 of which are paired with additional content, such as artist interviews. Those who have missed the contemporary wing while it has been on hiatus are sure to welcome this striking new space and
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Feb. 12+
ART IN THE “RAW” For something different in the way of a Valentine for your sweet-
heart, stop by the Raw Art Sale, at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where students will be selling their “raw” (unframed and unmatted) artwork to the public. Screenprints, photographs, paintings or small sculptures will all be for sale at the Black Box Theater (1601 Mount Royal Ave.) on Feb. 12 from noon to 4 p.m. and on Feb. 13 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Feb. 15+
A VALENTINE FROM THE BSO The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can help you celebrate Valentine’s Day when singer and pianist Tony DeSare performs such
romantic standards as “Moon River” and “Fly Me to the Moon.” The orchestra returns to Baltimore Friday to Sunday at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (1212 Cathedral St.); the first two performances are at 8 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 3 p.m. Tickets start at $28. For more information, visit www.bsomusic.org.
Jan. 19+
HANDS-ON CERAMICS WORKSHOP Baltimore Clayworks hosts “100 Teapots VI” at its gallery at 5707 Smith Ave. in Baltimore. This juried exhibition explores
teapots, tea cups and caddies. A workshop on Jan. 19-21 will also include a demonstration, discussion and hands-on studio practice with renowned ceramicist Jeff Oestreich. For more information, call (410) 578-1919 or visit www.baltimoreclayworks.org.
Jan. 29
TALKING ABOUT RACE Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch will discuss his new book, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights
Movement, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m., at the Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral St. Branch has selected 18 essential moments from the civil rights movement as presented in his “America in the King Years” trilogy. For more information, visit www.prattlibrary.org.
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the addition of new works — as well as the return of old favorites. Those who were unfamiliar with the contemporary wing in its last incarnation are encouraged to visit soon. And don’t be put off by the term “contemporary art.” (All artists are, at one time in their career, contemporary artists, as they live and create in their own time.) As one of the explanatory wall plaques notes, representational paintings often lead viewers to live “in the world of the picture rather than our own reality.” Contemporary art, on the other hand — which often includes non-representational, three-dimensional works that incorporate the architectural spaces in which Olafur Eliasson’s 2004 sculpture “Flower Observatory” they are exhibited — in- blooms in the renovated wing at BMA. vites viewers to actually “experience” art. It is open Wednesday through Friday, 10 And this is one experience you won’t a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 want to miss. a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free. For more The Baltimore Museum of Art is located information, call (443) 573-1700 or visit at Charles Street and Art Museum Drive. www.artbma.org. ©OLAFUR ELIASSON
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