Art Matters

BMA Director Christopher Bedford and Berlin-based, South African artist Candice Breitz talk about her inspiration for the two works, Love Story, which addresses the worldwide refugee crisis, and TLDR…

Baltimore-based artist Elissa Blount Moorhead talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about Back and Song, her multi-channel video collaboration with cinematographer Bradford Young that explores …

German artist Katharina Grosse talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about her gallery enveloping fabric and paint installation—her first in a U.S. museum—and describes the immersive experience…

Portland, Oregon-based artist Ellen Lesperance talks about her paintings inspired by sweaters worn by activities at the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, creative non-violence, and her Congratulati…

New York-based artist Mickalene Thomas talks with BMA Director Chris Bedford about the recent national and international recognition for black women artists are getting and A Moment’s Pleasure, her n…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks to New York-based multi-media artist Leonardo Drew about how the artist gives new life and meaning to the found materials he uses. Mr. Drew also discusses his a…

Artist William T. Williams talks about his long career as an abstract painter and his role in mentoring the next generation. Works by Williams are on view at the BMA in Generations: A History of Blac…

Artist Melvin Edwards talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about how his experiences in Africa have influenced his work—including his ongoing Lynch Fragments series—and shares details about hi…

Photographer and performance artist Clifford Owens talks with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about vulnerable interactions in his performance work, growing up in Baltimore, and the BMA’s newly rein…

New Orleans-based artists Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick discuss their work documenting the men incarcerated at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola—including how they began this project m…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu about her transition from working in collage to bronze sculpture and this moment of success for her and other black fe…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford talks with Baltimore-based artist Joyce J. Scott about the new exhibition pairing her artwork with that of her mother, Elizabeth Talford Scott, and the legacy of artm…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Paul Rucker, an artist determined to create compelling works of art that provoke the mind, body, spirit, and conscience of this ethically embattled world o…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Berlin-based Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg about their creative collaboration making psychologically charged, Surrealist-inspired stop-mo…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Baltimore-based photographer Ken Royster about the process of creating his black and white documentary images and his recent embrace of color digital image…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews Lauren Boyle of the New York-based artist collective DIS. Boyle explains how she, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro came up with the collective’s n…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford discusses the work of Ebony G. Patterson, whose exhibition at the BMA includes an opulent tapestry with dazzling arrays of found and fabricated materials—glitter, seq…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford explores how the artist collaborators Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin met and how they work together developing scripts and viewing environments for their frenetic, n…

BMA Director Christopher Bedford interviews the acclaimed artist Mark Bradford who represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale in 2017. The artist talks about the exhibition he created for Venice, it…

Christopher Bedford talks with Bahamian-born artist Tavares Strachan about his work with scientists at MIT in Cambridge and the Allen Institute in Seattle, the meaning of his compelling new light ins…