94 stories by "Baynard Woods"
When the legendarily pervy cartoonist R. Crumb thinks your drawings are weird, man, they're weird. In a short video running on a loop in the back room"which explicitly prohibits minors"of Th…
Momento Mori
By Adam Estes
Through Jan. 11 at Metro Gallery
When T.S. Eliot first saw the paintings from the Lascaux caves in France, he said: "Art never really gets any better."
You could be forgiven for thinking something like a miniature movement is afoot over on West Franklin Street.
Wham City has made the transition to television"or at least to infomercials. Dave Hughes, who created the program Off the Air on the Adult Swim network, noticed the loose collective of Balti…
Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum
The Walters Art Museum
Through Jan. 5
With its glass-bottomed boats and plentiful alligators, Silver Springs was once the premier tourist destinati…
John Ruppert, a sculptor who uses earthly materials and forms, didn't really know what he would be doing when he went to Iceland for a residency in Reykjavik last summer. "I just knew I was …
Liz Lerman crosses her hands, shifts to the side, crosses her arms, looks down, leans back and then forward over the back of her chair, hands out, grasping downward; she turns toward Paloma …
Kevin "KAL" KALlaugher once saved the Block, Baltimore's notorious red-light district. Or at least that's how former Mayor Kurt Schmoke sees it.
The House of Yes
By Wendy MacLeod
Directed by David Morey
at the Mobtown Theater Through Nov. 23
There's only one thing we Americans love more than anniversaries, and…
"And trust me, as you get older, those colors are harder to sustain," says Bruce Nelson as Mark Rothko in early rehearsals for Red, the play about the famous abstract expressionist which ope…
Two Suns over Thebes
Translated and adapted from Euripides' Bacchae by Alex Hacker
Through Nov. 10 at Annex Theater
Greek tragedy, as far as we can tell, originated out of the dithyramb…
Marcus Gardley, who won the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright, is a busy man.
A Beginner's Guide to Deicide
By Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker
Directed by Elliott Rauh
Through Oct. 27 at Single Carrot Theatre
Theological comedy is a pretty small genre which p…
Skeleton Hearts: Three Short Plays
By Lola Pierson, Sam Shepard, and Samuel Beckett
Through Oct. 11 at Acme Corporation
Theater is an art whose true media are time and space. When we …
Antigone
By Sophocles
Adapted and directed by Lynn Morton
performed by glass mind theatre at EMP collective through Aug. 25
Antigone is the most easily misunderstood"and therefore most …
Art museums are in crisis. Of course, the city's museums are still suffering from the economic collapse in 2008. The Contemporary Museum suspended operations last year (though they are happi…
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Dina Kelberman
Through Aug. 17 at Nudashank
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Last March, Wham City artist and creator of City Paper's "Important Comics" Dina Kelberman found herself in the strange po…
The exhibition of this year's Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists smells like the jury"Caroline Busta, Jenny Schlenzka, and Beverly Semmes"was desperate to be "relevant." Four…
There is only one thing worse than hearing about someone's drug trip or spiritual experience, and that is seeing it enacted. Whether we think of the psychedelic experience as therapeutic (as…
Euripides' Medea
Directed by Melissa O'Brien
Through June 29 at Mobtown Theater
Though ancient Greek tragedy is the progenitor of all subsequent theater, we don't generally unders…
Selfie at Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute
through July 13
Despite its promotional materials, Selfie, the new show at Guest Spot through July 13, graciously has nothing to do with the pictur…
A week before The Beaux' Stratagem opens at Everyman Theatre, six actors are on the stage trying to work out a tricky fight scene that involves flying swords. As four actors begin to sword-f…
Sure, Kevin Spacey's Baltimore-filmed House of Cards seems loosely based on Shakespeare's Macbeth, but you don't need all of the blocked-off streets and film crews in order to experience the…
If You Can Get to Buffalo: An Exploration of A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
Written by Trish Harnetiaux
Directed by Eric Nightengale
Through May 25 at Acme Corporation
Imagine…
Caitlin Cunningham has had a good month. She was chosen as one of the six finalists for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape prize only days before her first solo show opened at sophiajaco…
