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Press Releases
July 12, 2021
BMA Security Officers Take Center Stage as Guest Curators of a New Exhibition Opening in March 2022
July 7, 2021
BMA Announces 175 New Acquisitions for its Collection as well as a Promised Gift of 90 Artworks from Longtime Museum Supporters Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff
May 24, 2021
BMA Exhibition Captures Significance of the 43-Year Friendship Between Baltimore Collector Etta Cone and Artist Henri Matisse
May 10, 2021
Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art Announce A Movement In Every Direction: Legacies of The Great Migration
April 26, 2021
BMA to Open Exhibition of Recent Contemporary Acquisitions Highlighting Collection Diversification
March 26, 2021
BMA Hosts Ginevra Shay’s “Phone Call” Participatory Art and Poetry Project April 6–10
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- BMA Security Officers Take Center Stage as Guest Curators of a New Exhibition Opening in March 2022
- BMA Announces 175 New Acquisitions for its Collection as well as a Promised Gift of 90 Artworks from Longtime Museum Supporters Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff
- BMA Receives Major Gift to Support Acquisitions for its African Art Collection
- BMA Opens Women Behaving Badly: 400 Years of Power and Protest
- BMA Presents First Solo U.S. Exhibition of Cubist Juan Gris in Over Three Decades
- BMA Exhibition Captures Significance of the 43-Year Friendship Between Baltimore Collector Etta Cone and Artist Henri Matisse
- BMA Presents Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: The Perpetual Sense of Redness
- Mississippi Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art Announce A Movement In Every Direction: Legacies of The Great Migration
- BMA Launches New Brand Identity Today
- BMA to Open Exhibition of Recent Contemporary Acquisitions Highlighting Collection Diversification
- BMA Hosts Ginevra Shay’s “Phone Call” Participatory Art and Poetry Project April 6–10
- BMA Announces March 28 Reopening
- BMA to Open Major Retrospective on Artist Joan Mitchell in March 2022
- BMA Receives Three Major Gifts in Support of Its Diversity and Equity Initiatives
- BMA To Open Solo Exhibitions by Contemporary Artists Sharon Lockhart, Tschabalala Self, and Lisa Yuskavage in March 2021
- BMA Offers Visits By Appointment For Small Groups Beginning Saturday, February 6
- BMA Concludes 2020 Vision Acquisitions with Works by Laura Aguilar, Valerie Maynard, Betye Saar, and Joyce J. Scott, Among Others
- The BMA Responds to Increasing Number of COVID-19 Cases by Closing Galleries from November 25 until January 6
- BMA Announces Promised Gift of Significant Works from John Waters’s Fine Art Collection
- BMA Announces Ambitious Plan to Increase Staff Salaries, Improve Community Access, and Diversify its Collection
- BMA Hosts Live-Streaming Conversation with Tarana Burke and Nadya Tolokonnikova on October 22
- $5 Million Gift Will Establish Center for BMA’s Collection of 65,000 Prints, Drawings and Photographs
- BMA Announces Plans to Reopen in September 2020
- BMA Hosts Livestreamed Concert & Convo with Acclaimed Jazz Vocalist Akua Allrich on Monday, September 21
- BMA Debuts New Outdoor Experiences on August 5
- BMA Appoints Six New Members to its Board of Trustees
- BMA Acquires Works by Barbara Chase-Riboud, Oletha DeVane, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Laura Ortman, Wendy Red Star, Among Others
- New BMA Violet Hour Series Launches June 24 Featuring Virtual Artist Talk with Zackary Drucker
- BMA Offers Direct Support to Local Artist Community, Launching Three New Initiatives in June 2020
- BMA Receives 3.5 Million Gift to Endow Directorship for Matisse Studies Center
- BMA Responds to Global Pandemic by Making Exhibition of Major Works by Acclaimed Artist Candice Breitz Accessible on Newly Developed Website
- BMA Appoints Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole as Special Counsel on Strategic Initiatives
- BMA Expands Digital Resources for Art Experiences at Home
- Jay McKean Fisher to Step Down from BMA After 45 Years in Curatorial and Leadership Positions
- BMA to Present Major Exhibition Exploring Motherhood and African Art
- BMA Presents Nine Solo Exhibitions of Female-Identifying Contemporary Artists
- BMA Presents Two Major Video Installations by Acclaimed Artist Candice Breitz as part of the 2020 Vision Initiative
- BMA Presents Ellen Lesperance: Velvet Fist
- BMA Announces its Fall 2019 Acquisitions
- BMA to host Free Event with 1619 Project Journalist Nikole Hannah-jones, Activist/art Collector Pamela Joyner, and Artist Zoë Charlton
- BMA Unveils Mickalene Thomas A Moment’s Pleasure
- BMA Presents Adorned: African Women & The Art Of Identity
- BMA Presents Free Form: 20th-century Studio Craft
- BMA Expands Curatorial Department for Contemporary Art
- BMA Receives Gift of Art from Noted Collectors and Philanthropists Pamela J. Joyner And Alfred J. Giuffrida
- BMA Kicks Off 2020 Vision Celebration with By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists
- BMA to Unveil Mickalene Thomas’s Largest Commission to date in November 2019, Completely Transforming The Museum’s East Lobby
- BMA Presents Major Exhibition Exploring Development of Abstract Art through the Work of Black Artists
- BMA Presents Melvin Edwards: Crossroads
- BMA Dedicates a Year of Exhibitions and Programs to Women Artists in 2020
- BMA Receives $5 Million Gift to Establish Center Dedicated to the Study of French Master Henri Matisse
- BMA Lexington Market to Host Free Screenings of Solange Knowles Art Film in August
- BMA to Open a Branch Location at Lexington Market on Thursday, June 27
- BMA Announces more than 70 New Acquisitions, Including Major Contemporary and Historic Works
- BMA Invites 300 Organizations to Participate in Historic Survey
- BMA to Reinstall Contemporary Collection Galleries With New View On the Development of Contemporary Art
- BMA Presents Major Exhibition Exploring Development of Abstract Art Through the Work of Black Artists
- BMA Presents 2019 Jazz in The Sculpture Gardens Concerts
- BMA Presents Oletha DeVane: Traces of the Spirit
- BMA Presents Slavery, The Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick
- BMA to Host Free Event With Rapper/ Activist Boots Riley & Artist Mickalene Thomas
- BMA Presents Hitching their Dreams to Untamed Stars: Joyce J. Scott & Elizabeth Talford Scott
- BMA Presents An Exhibition of Outstanding Works on Paper from the Mary and Paul Roberts Collection
- BMA Receives Major Gift to Endow Chief Curator Position from Philanthropists Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown
- BMA Presents Exhibition of Luminous Early 20th Century Landscapes
- BMA Presents Monsters & Myths: Surrealism & War in the 1930s and 1940s
- BMA Announces Second Round of Contemporary Art Acquisitions Made with Auction Proceeds
- BMA Announces First Named Public Art Commission for a U.S. Museum and New Curatorial Fellowship
- BMA Presents Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg / Delights of an Undirected Mind
- BMA Presents Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography
- BMA and Maryland Institute College of Art Partner With For Freedoms to Deliver Creative Civic Engagement Programming
- BMA Presents Ebony G. Patterson: …For Little Whispers…
- BMA Presents Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day
- BMA Unveils Commissioned Neon Sculpture By Tavares Strachan on Historic Façade
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Presents Maren Hassinger: The Spirit of Things
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Announces First Contemporary Art Acquisitions Made With Auction Proceeds
- The BMA Presents Two Exhibitions of African Art Subverting Beauty: African Anti- Aesthetics and Kuba: Fabric of an Empire
- The BMA Diversifies its Collection, Strengthening its holdings to Enhance Visitor Experience
- The Baltimore Museum of Art to Present Mark Bradford’s Tomorrow is Another Day Featured in 2017 Venice Biennale