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January 17, 2023
BMA Announces Acquisition of More Than 150 Artworks For Its Encyclopedic Collection
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BMA to Open Groundbreaking Exhibition on the Impact of Hip Hop on Contemporary Art and Material Culture in April 2023
December 19, 2022
BMA Announces Major Renovation to Joseph Education Center with Artist-Designed Interactives
December 6, 2022
Baltimore Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum Announce Guarding the Art Partnership with Exhibition Planned for 2024
November 10, 2022
Baltimore Museum of Art and Mississippi Museum of Art Announce National Tour of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
November 7, 2022
BMA Announces Additional Programs for A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
October 17, 2022
BMA Hosts Author Isabel Wilkerson and Stoop Storytelling for Great Migration Opening
September 22, 2022
BMA Appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt as Curator of European Painting and Sculpture and Promotes Leslie Cozzi to Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs
September 8, 2022
BMA Announces Nekisha Durrett and Jackie Milad Selected for Site-Responsive Commissions in Dialogue with Fred Wilson’s Artemis/Bast Sculpture
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- The Baltimore Museum of Art Appoints Dr. Asma Naeem as Director
- BMA Announces Acquisition of More Than 150 Artworks For Its Encyclopedic Collection
- BMA to Open Groundbreaking Exhibition on the Impact of Hip Hop on Contemporary Art and Material Culture in April 2023
- BMA Announces Major Renovation to Joseph Education Center with Artist-Designed Interactives
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum Announce Guarding the Art Partnership with Exhibition Planned for 2024
- Baltimore Museum of Art and Mississippi Museum of Art Announce National Tour of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
- BMA Announces Additional Programs for A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
- BMA Hosts Author Isabel Wilkerson and Stoop Storytelling for Great Migration Opening
- BMA Presents Baltimore, Addressed: Baker Artist Awards
- BMA Appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt as Curator of European Painting and Sculpture and Promotes Leslie Cozzi to Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs
- BMA Announces Nekisha Durrett and Jackie Milad Selected for Site-Responsive Commissions in Dialogue with Fred Wilson’s Artemis/Bast Sculpture
- Baltimore Museum of Art Presents Stanley Whitney: Dance With Me Henri
- BMA Presents Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection
- BMA and Saint Louis Art Museum Co-Organize Monumental Exhibition Exploring the Global Significance and Impact of Hip Hop
- BMA to Present First Major Museum Exhibition on the Complex and Poignant Work of Darrel Ellis
- BMA to Present First U.S. Museum Exhibition of Work by Acclaimed Senegalese Artist Omar Ba
- BMA Board of Trustees Elect James D. Thornton as Board Chair
- BMA Announces Diverse Array of Acquisitions Across Museum Departments
- BMA Presents A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
- BMA Announces Selection of Search Firm for New Director
- BMA Debuts New Narratives of American Art with Arctic Artistry and American Modernism
- BMA Announces Return of Jazz in the Sculpture Garden
- BMA to Open Shapeshifting: Transformations on Paper Exploring Physical and Creative Transformation as Source of Inspiration for Artists Across Centuries
- BMA Promotes Jessica Bell Brown to Curator and Department Head for Contemporary Art
- BMA to Open Solo Exhibitions of Works by Contemporary Artists William Cordova, Beatrice Glow, Elle Pérez, and Salman Toor
- BMA Appoints Members of Senior Leadership Team as Interim Co-Directors
- “Guarding the Art” Exhibition Guest Curated by BMA Security Officers Opens March 27
- BMA Presents Joan Mitchell Retrospective in March 2022, Featuring 70 Artworks and Rarely Seen Archival Materials
- BMA Announces Diverse Array of Acquisitions, with 54 Objects Added Across Museum Collection
- Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and BMA to Unveil the Official Portrait of the Beloved Late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings
- BMA to Open The Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs on December 12
- Baltimore Museum of Art to Open The Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies on December 12
- Baltimore Museum of Art’s New Contemporary Wing Reinstallation Emphasizes Artists’ Voices and Social Themes Relevant to Audiences
- BMA Debuts New Presentation of African Art Collection and New Dedicated Galleries for Art of the Ancient Americas and Oceanic Collections
- BMA Receives $150,000 Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Launch Community-Focused Research Initiative
- BMA Announces New Fall Exhibitions, Including a Major Reinstallation of Its Contemporary Wing
- BMA Presents New Works by Baltimore Artists Lauren Frances Adams, Mequitta Ahuja, Cindy Cheng, and LaToya Hobbs
- BMA Presents Richard Yarde: Beyond the Savoy
- BMA Appoints Five New Members to its Board of Trustees
- BMA Debuts New Screen House Video Series Featuring Several Baltimore Artists
- 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 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 Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art
- 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 to Present 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 New Video Installations by Artist Collaborative DIS
- BMA Presents Video Works Created by Baltimore Middle School Students with Get Your Life!
- BMA Presents Ebony G. Patterson: …For Little Whispers…
- BMA Presents Exhibition of Sculptural Theaters and Videos by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin
- BMA Presents John Waters: Indecent Exposure
- The BMA Appoints Asma Naeem as Chief Curator and Names Curators for Prints Drawing, & Photographs and American Art
- BMA Presents Mark Bradford: Tomorrow is Another Day
- BMA Unveils Commissioned Neon Sculpture By Tavares Strachan on Historic Façade
- BMA Presents Anniversary Exhibition of Gifts from Print, Drawing, & Photograph Society
- BMA Presents Exhibition of Works by 2017 & 2018 Baker Artist Award Winners
- Erick Antonio Benitez Wins $25,000 Sondheim Artscape Prize
- 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 and SFMOMA Co-Organize Comprehensive Retrospective of work by Acclaimed Artist Joan Mitchell
- BMA Announces New Leadership Appointments for Finance, Education, Advancement, and Innovation
- BMA Celebrates Jack Whitten Exhibition at Art After Hours: Afropolitanism Party on June 22
- BMA Presents Exhibition of Works by Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists 2018
- The BMA Revisits History with 1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA
- BMA Presents Jazz Odyssey Concerts inspired by Jack Whitten
- BMA Presents Ann Veronica Janssens: Fog Star in the Spring House Beginning May 30
- BMA Presents First Major Exhibition of Jack Whitten’s Sculptures
- The BMA Diversifies its Collection, Strengthening its holdings to Enhance Visitor Experience
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Celebrates Jack Whitten’s Legacy With Special Events
- Artist Meleko Mokgosi Rethinks European Compositions for New Suite of Paintings at the Baltimore Museum of Art
- The BMA Presents Ta-Nehisi Coates on May 17 as part of Necessity of Tomorrow(s) Speaker Series
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Announces Major Retrospective of Visual Art by John Waters
- BMA Presents Two Recent Films by Acclaimed Artists Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley
- BMA Opens Exhibition of Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau Posters
- BMA Debuts First Museum Exhibition of Baltimore-Based Artist Stephen Towns
- BMA Illuminates Lobby of Historic Building with Moon Dust (Apollo 17) By Acclaimed American Artist Spencer Finch
- The BMA and Art +Practice Present the Work of Experimental Sculptor and Performance Artist Senga Nengundi
- Baltimore Museum of Art Co-Organizes First Major Exhibition of Jack Whitten’s Sculptures
- BMA Opens Beyond Flight: Birds in African Art On December 20
- The Baltimore Museum of Art to Present Mark Bradford’s Tomorrow is Another Day Featured in 2017 Venice Biennale
- BMA Presents Immersive Installation by Baltimore-Based Artist Phaan Howng
- The BMA Presents First Exhibition of Mexican Modernist Prints & Drawings From the Museum’s Collection
- BMA Debuts New Suite of Paintings by Acclaimed Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Receives $5 Million Gift to Endow Director’s Position
- BMA And Los Angeles-Based Art + Practice Present Spiral Play: Loving in the 80’s
- BMA Presents New Exhibition by Internationally Acclaimed Artist Tomas Saraceno
- The Work of Contemporary Artists Kara Walker And Hand Willis Thomas Come Together in Installation at the BMA
- BMA Presents The Work of Contemporary Artist Annet Couwenberg Beginning August 16
- BMA Presents the Work of Influential Photographers Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White
- The BMA Selects Baltimore-Based Artist Phaan Howng and Blue Water Baltimore for Next Commons Collaborations
- BMA Acquires Significant Works by Mark Bradford, Paul Chan, Norman Lewis, and Ellsworth Kelly
- New Work by Artist Adam Pendleton Brings an Art of Protest into the Museum
- The BMA Presents Timeless Weft: Ancient Tapestries and The Art of Louise B. Wheatley Through July 30, 2017
- BMA Presents 130 Rarely Seen Artists’ Books by Picasso, Miro, Hockney, Hartigan, and Others
- BMA Presents a Film by Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj in Black Box Gallery Starting February 8, 2017
- BMA Opens Shifting Views: People and Politics in Contemporary African Art on December 18
- The BMA and The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University Announce Collaboration On U.S. Pavilion Presentation of Mark Bradford at 2017 Venice Biennale
- BMA Presents Queer Interiors Multimedia Installation on LGBTQI+ Home Life
- Baltimore Museum of Art Names Katy Siegel as Senior Programming and Research Curator
- John Waters’ Kiddie Flamingo’s Makes Museum Debut at the BMA
- The BMA Presents 30 Years of Protest Posters by the Guerrilla Girls
- The BMA Presents Exhibition of 2016 Baker Artist Award Winners
- BMA Presents First Exhibition to Show the Influence of Henri Matisse on Richard Diebenkorn
- FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture Wins $25,000 Sondheim Artscape Prize
- BMA Presents Design for Mobile Living: Art From Eastern Africa
- BMA Presents 19th-21st Century Japanese Kimono and Obi Never Before On View
- BMA Presents Exhibition of Works By Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Appoints Christopher Bedford as its New Director
- BMA Completes Major Archive Initiative
- BMA Selects Baltimore Artists Rahne Alexander & Jaimes Mayhew For One-Year Commons Collaboration
- BMA Presents First Broomberg & Chanarin Exhibition in the U.S.
- BMA Presents Powerful Photographs Reinterpreting Masterworks of Painting
- BMA Showcases Works by African-American Artists with Google Art Project Exhibition and Other New Initiatives
- The BMA and SFMOMA Co-Organize First Exhibition to Show the Influence of Henri Matisse on Richard Diebenkorn
- BMA Presents First Major Exhibition Since Renovation ‘New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century”
- BMA Presents Matisse Prints and Drawings
- BMA Presents Extraordinary Art Quilts On View For The First Time
- BMA Presents New Arrivals: Joachim Koester
- BMA Receives $3 Million Gift From Patricia and Mark Joseph to Support New Education Center
- BMA’s “New Arrival” Series Showcases Artworks Recently Added to the Museum’s Renowned Collection
- BMA’s Imagining Home Exhibition Explores Different Aspects of Home Through Art From Around the World
- Doreen Bolger Announces Retirement After 17 Years as Director of The Baltimore Museum of Art
- Front Room: Dario Robleto Brings Contemporary Component to American Wing Opening Celebration
- BMA Presents Anri Sala’s Film 1395 Days Without Red
- BMA Presents On Paper: Alternate Realities
- BMA Announces April 2015 Reopening of Renovated and Expanded Galleries Dedicated to African and Asian Art
- BMA Presents Front Room: Seth Adelsberger
- Renoir’s On the Shore of the Seine Returns to the BMA in Special Exhibition Celebrating Collector Saidie May
- BMA Presents On Paper: Drawings from the Benesch Collection
- BMA Presents Provocative “Vampire” Soft Sculptures by Acclaimed Artist Sterling Ruby
- BMA Presents U.S. Debut of Camille Henrot’s Award-Winning Video Gross Fatigue
- BMA Presents Vivid Exhibition of Rarely Shown German Expressionist Art
- Matisse’s Marguerite: Model Daughter Opens at the BMA on September 18
- Morris Louis Unveiled Debuts in the BMA’s Contemporary Wing on September 8
- Max Weber: Bringing Paris to New York Exhibition Opens at the BMA on March 3
- BMA Presents Focus Exhibition on Three Decades of Matisse’s Dancers
- BMA to Reopen Renovated Contemporary Art Wing on November 18, 2012
- Hand Held Displays More Than 80 Rarely Shown African Works of ArtFROM BMA’S COLLECTION
- Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein Showcases 500 Years of Serial Printmaking
- BMA Exhibits Never Before Shown Images in Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960
- BMA Presents Front Room: Guyton\Walker in the West Wing for Contemporary Art
- BMA Presents Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
- Art On Purpose Explores Poe’s Haunting Themes With Exhibition and Workshops
- Matisse as Printmaker Sheds New Light on One of the Greatest Artists of the 20th Century
- BMA Celebrates Edgar Allan Poe’s Bicentennial With Spooky Art and Illustrations
- BMA Presents High-Flying Art in A Circus Family: Picasso to Léger
- BMA Presents First Exhibition to Explore Cézanne’s Influence on American Art
- BMA Organizes First Comprehensive Survey of Austrian Artist Franz West in the United States
- BMA Continues Modern Masters Series with Bonnard & Vuillard
- BMA Presents Looking Through the Lens: Photography 1900–1960
- The BMA Presents Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
- BMA Presents NUNO: Japanese Tradition/Innovation in Cloth
- BMA Receives Transformational $10 Million Endowment Gift from Dorothy McIlvain Scott
- BMA Presents Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape
- BMA Presents 19th-Century French Art from the Lucas Collection
- Artists Selected for siteMaryland: Governor’s Arts Initiative 2006
- Influence of Henry Ossawa Tanner on America Explored in New Exhibition
- Free Admission at Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum Begins October 1
- First of Two Henry Ossawa Tanner Exhibitions Debuts at the BMA
- BMA Presents Monet’s London: Artists’ Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914
- The Baltimore Museum of Art and Walters Art Museum Present The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
- Contemporary Ceramics Installation by Richard Cleaver Opens in BMA’s Spring House
- SlideShow Landmark Exhibition of Slide Projection Art Debuts at the BMA
- BMA Presents Impressionist Paintings by Theodore Robinson
- “Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art” Opens at the BMA
- Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing, Meditations on Black Aesthetics Comes to the BMA
- Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge Opens at the BMA
- Major Contemporary Art Exhibition Work Ethic Opens at the BMA
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Presents “The Beaded Prayers Project”
- BMA Presents Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad
- The BMA Presents Art of the Ballets Russes
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Presents “A Grand Legacy: Five Centuries of European Art”
- BMA Presents Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color
- “Tom Miller: Changing Spaces” Opens at the Baltimore Museum of Art
- BMA Presents Antioch: The Lost Ancient City
- The Baltimore Museum of Art Heralds the Grand Reopening of the Cone Collection
- BMA Presents a Powerful Examination of African-American Images in Looking Forward/Looking Black
- Dynamic Collaboration between BMA and Maryland Institute Celebrates 30-Year Career of Joyce J. Scott