Exhibition Releases

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Candida Höfer: Interior Worlds
November 16, 2011 - February 26, 2012
In September 2010, internationally acclaimed contemporary German photographer Candida Höfer focused her camera on two of Baltimore’s most venerable cultural institutions: The Johns Hopkins University’s George Peabody Library and the Walters Art Museum. A selection of the resulting images will make their Baltimore debut in Candida Höfer: Interior Worlds. Press Release »

Embroidered Treasures: Textiles from Central Asia
November 13, 2011 - May 13, 2012
Textiles in Central Asian cultures have been produced and cherished
for centuries as indicators of a family's wealth and social standing. More than a dozen captivating examples, painstakingly embroidered with silk threads in vibrant colors, from regions known today as Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikstan, are featured in Embroidered Treasures: Textiles from Central Asia. Press Release »

Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein
October 30, 2011 - March 25, 2012
An epic exhibition of more than 350 prints by American and European artists working in series from the late 15th through the 21st centuries, including Canaletto, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha. This is a rare opportunity to view 29 series of multiple images in complete sets—revealing the true vision of the artist, print by print. Press Release | Images | Program

Hand Held: Personal Arts from Africa
September 25, 2011 - February 5, 2012
This exhibition brings together more than 80 artworks from the BMA’s collection that skillfully merge artistry with utility, including seats, vessels, blankets, combs, and hats. It also celebrates a facet of the BMA’s rich and historic African art collection, which will be reinstalled as part of the BMA’s major renovation project. Press Release »

Baker Artist Awards 2011
September 7 – October 2, 2011
The talent and diversity of Baltimore’s arts community is on display with a multi-disciplinary exhibition showcasing the winners of the prestigious $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize, as well as examples of works by the 18 b-grant winners. Press Release »

Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2011 Finalists
June 25 – August 7, 2011
The BMA along with the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts presents an exhibition of sculpture, photography, and multi-media installations by the five finalists for the sixth annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. Stephanie Barber, Louie Palu, Mark Parascandola, Matthew Porterfield, and Rachel Rotenberg are the finalists in this year's highly anticipated summer exhibition. Press Release »

Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960
February 20 - May 15, 2011
The BMA presents over 200 compelling and provocative images that showcase the work of more than 60 of the most remarkable photographers of our time. Groundbreaking individual photographs and photographic series by renowned artists such as Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, and Cindy Sherman are featured, along with film and video installations. The works are drawn from the BMA’s exceptional but rarely shown photography collection, and many of the images have never been on view at the Museum until now.
Press Release (updated 2/17/11) | Programs | Images | Late Night

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
October 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011
The first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the late works of the iconic American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) includes more than 50 works that reveal the Pop artist’s energetic return to painting and renewed spirit of experimentation during the last decade of his life. This period shows Warhol in the midst of his celebrity creating more paintings and on a vastly larger scale than at any other moment of his 40-year career.
Press Release | Programs | Biography | Fact Sheet | Late Night

Front Room: Guyton\Walker
September 22, 2010 - January 16, 2011
In conjunction with Andy Warhol: The Last Decade, the BMA presents an energetic and colorful installation by the New York-based collaborative Guyton\Walker in the West Wing for Contemporary Art. Press Release »

Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture
July 21, 2010 - February 20, 2011
One of the earliest examples of David Smith’s welding is shown publicly for the first time in this exhibition of more than 30 works by Smith, Naum Gabo, Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and others. Press Release »

Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2010 Finalists
June 19 - August 1, 2010
The BMA showcases the seven finalists for the $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. This year the exhibition features a wide range of sculpture, film, animation, and multimedia works by Leah Cooper, Ryan Hackett, Matthew Janson, Nate Larson, Christopher LaVoie, Matt Porterfield, and Karen Yasinsky. Press Release »

Baker Artist Awards 2010
April 7 - June 27, 2010
The BMA celebrates the eight winners of the Baker Artist Awards with an exhibition of sculpture, film, photography, drawings, music, and performance videos. This year 495 artists submitted their work to the competition at bakerartistawards.org, and more than 31,000 visitors from 129 countries voted online for their favorite artists. Press Release »

Cézanne and American Modernism
February 14 - May 23, 2010
The BMA brings together 16 dazzling landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80 paintings, watercolors, and photographs by artists such as Max Weber, alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne’s profound impact on American artists at the beginning of the 20th century.  
Press Release | Cezanne Biography | Programs | Quotes

Matisse as Printmaker
October 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010
The BMA presents the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse. Matisse as Printmaker unites the BMA’s extraordinary collection of Matisse prints with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts, a non-profit arts organization, and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Approximately 170 works of art span 50 years of the artist’s career.
Press Release | Programs | Printmaking Techniques |Images

Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
October 4, 2009 - January 17, 2010
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth, the BMA presents a dramatic exhibition of prints, drawings and illustrated books inspired by the master of the macabre. See works by renowned French artists Paul Gauguin, Édouard Manet, and Odilon Redon, as well as surrealist René Magritte and abstract expressionist Robert Motherwell all paying tribute to Poe’s genius.
Press Release | Programs | Baltimore Inspired by Poe | Images

Hank Willis Thomas
July 29 - November 29, 2009
Discover the powerful work of multimedia artist Hank Willis Thomas in the BMA’s West Wing for Contemporary Art. This acclaimed African-American artist is participating in the Artist-in-Residence Program at The Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies during the fall 2009 semester. Press Release »

Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2009 Finalists
June 20 – August 16, 2009
The BMA presents an exhibition of the six finalists for the $25,000 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. This is the fourth year of the prestigious annual award, organized by Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. The six finalists are Baltimore Development Cooperative (BDC), Leslie Furlong, Ryan Hackett, Jessie Lehson, Molly Springfield and Karen Yasinsky.  Press Release »

Baker Artist Awards
April 29 – June 28, 2009
The BMA celebrates the 10 inaugural winners of the Baker Artist Awards with an exhibition of sculpture, photography, drawings, and multimedia presentations displayed in three galleries of the Museum’s West Wing of Contemporary Art. The artists were selected from among 656 nominees on the bakerartistawards.org web site in the first competition of its kind to incorporate public voting through an online forum.
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A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger
February 22 – May 17, 2009
See daring feats, exotic acts, and colorful circus characters through the eyes of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century. More than 80 prints, drawings, paintings, and books reveal how Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Fernand Léger, and other European artists were fascinated by the extravagant spectacle of the circus and the bohemian lives of the performers outside the ring.
Press Release | Exhibition Images | Circus Programs Baltimore Circus Events

Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972-2008
October 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Experience the supersize, provocative, and playful work of acclaimed Austrian artist Franz West. Considered one of the most important living artists today, West’s interactive sculptures, surprising collages, and giant outdoor installations have captured the imagination of an international audience for more than three decades. Organized by The Baltimore Museum of Art, this nationally traveling exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work in the United States, featuring 117 objects that explore West’s extraordinary innovations in sculpture, design, and on paper—from his early interactive works in the 1970s to two enormous aluminum sculptures created expressly for this exhibition. Admission is free.
Press Release | Color Sheet | Programs & Events | Dorit Installation | Exhibition Checklist | Interview with Tom Eccles

BMA Extends Two Summer Exhibitions
August 8, 2008
The Baltimore Museum of Art has extended the run of two of its most popular summer exhibitions. Meditations on African Art: Pattern (original closing date August 17) is now on view through August 24. Bonnard & Vuillard (original closing date August 10) is now on view through October 19.
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Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints
August 27– December 7, 2008
Majestic settings of the English countryside have inspired writers and artists from the poetry of William Wordsworth to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. This fall, the BMA focuses on the transforming British landscape in Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints. This one-gallery exhibition features an array of 25 watercolors and books drawn from the Museum’s collection.
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Front Room: Dieter Roth & Rachel Harrison
October 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Chocolate, cheese, and fried dumplings aren’t what you would usually expect as the subjects for museum-worthy artworks, yet in its upcoming Front Room exhibition the BMA features two artists who manage to do just that. The BMA’s experimental project space pairs the work of Dieter Roth (German, 1930-1998) and Rachel Harrison (American, b.1966). Separated by generations and continents, Roth and Harrison overlap both formally and conceptually in approximately 15 two- and three-dimensional artworks from the BMA’s collection that expose their shared sensibilities.
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Geoff Grace wins 2008 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are proud to announce that Geoff Grace is the winner of the 2008 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The coveted $25,000 prize was presented at this evening’s awards ceremony at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Works of art by the prizewinner and five other finalists are on view at the BMA until August 3.
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Front Room: Jim Dine
June 11 – October 5, 2008
The series of contemporary art exhibitions in The Baltimore Museum of Art’s experimental project space continues with Front Room: Jim Dine. On view June 11 – October 5, 2008, the exhibition features approximately 20 works on paper from the BMA’s holdings along with loans from private collections.
Press Release | Programs & Events Information

Bonnard & Vuillard
April 23 – October 19, 2008
The BMA presents this luminous two-gallery exhibition of works by Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard—two modern masters whose experimental work inspired artists from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Henri Matisse. The exhibition presents four paintings, three drawings, and over 30 lithographs, etchings, posters, and illustrated books drawn from the BMA’s outstanding collection that showcase the change in style for both artists as they progressed through their artistic careers.
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Front Room: Notes on Monumentality
February 27 – May 25, 2008
The Front Room series at The Baltimore Museum of Art continues with an exhibition focusing on monuments and monumentality. Front Room: Notes on Monumentality reconsiders historic and contemporary conceptions of the monument and monumentality through the presentation of more than 40 photographs, prints, drawings, paintings, video, and sculpture.
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Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900–1960
March 16 – June 8, 2008
This exhibition features more than 150 rarely shown vintage prints by some of the world's best-known European and American artists. Iconic images by Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, and others showcase the impressive range and depth of the BMA’s photography collection while illuminating some of the most important achievements in the history of the medium.
Press Release | Color Sheet | Programs & Events Information

Meditations on African Art: Pattern
March 12 – August 24, 2008
The third and final installation in the BMA’s Meditations on African Art series exploring light, color, and pattern in the BMA’s distinguished African collection, Meditations on African Art: Pattern, features more than 70 diverse works that define the shape and surface of African art. Dramatic textiles, whimsical adinkra dye stamps, delicately carved ivories, boldly painted shields, and figurative works show the role of pattern and how it defines the shape and surface of African works of art by proclaiming the distinctive styles of individual men, women, and cultures.
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Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Prints
November 14, 2007 – March 30, 2008
The BMA’s outstanding print collection served as the inspiration for a group of students from The Johns Hopkins University to explore how sculpture was represented in European prints from the mid-16th through early 19th centuries. The results of their work is an exhibition that reveals how printmakers imbued two-dimensional works with as much grandeur as their three-dimensional counterparts.
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Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
October 28, 2007 – February 3, 2008
The Baltimore Museum of Art is the last stop on the national tour for Matisse: Painter as Sculptor, the first major exhibition of Henri Matisse’s sculpture in the U.S. in nearly 40 years. This widely acclaimed exhibition brings together more than 160 sculptures, paintings, and drawings from museums and private collections around the world to reveal for the first time how the insights Matisse gained in one medium led to innovations in another.
Press Release | Programs & Events Information | Matisse Sculpture Facts | Color Sheet | Installation Photos