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On working in mental health and writing about Mary Ellen Mark.
04/09/2026

On working in mental health and writing about Mary Ellen Mark.

Thoughts on my past working in mental health (after writing a long review about photographer Mary Ellen Mark)

My review of photographer Mary Ellen Mark's profound exhibition at UMBC features photos of women living in a psychiatric...
03/27/2026

My review of photographer Mary Ellen Mark's profound exhibition at UMBC features photos of women living in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon in 1975. This is the same place where "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" was filmed, and Mark worked on the production. Afterwards, she spent 37 days on Ward 81, the only maximum-security unit for women in the state at the time. This article offers a detailed look into the show, Mark, and other issues involved in such journalistic projects.

Note: you can now also listen to an audio version of these articles on BmoreArt! Just click the audio read at the top of the article. Though here, you will definitely want to look at the imagery as well.

In the iconic photograph, a young woman lies in a deep white ceramic bathtub, only her face visible above the soapy water. She is framed like a saint. Wet, dark hair fans out behind her, flowing over the back of the tub. She gazes at the viewer with wide eyes, her oval girlish face pensive […]

How Kenneth Noland and a Woman Changed My Life (again)
03/25/2026

How Kenneth Noland and a Woman Changed My Life (again)

How Kenneth Noland and One Woman Changed My Life (again)

Why I love my Baltimore art studio.
02/19/2026

Why I love my Baltimore art studio.

The great American warehouse.

Jack Livingston reviews Dora Malech's new poetry collection, Trying x Trying. Read or listen.
01/23/2026

Jack Livingston reviews Dora Malech's new poetry collection, Trying x Trying. Read or listen.

So begins Dora Malech’s fifth poetry collection, Trying × Trying—with a prayer-like admission. The slim 82-page volume (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025) is packed with 51 poems. Written between 2016 and 2022—a singularly defining cultural period marked by political authoritarianism, so...

Kim Gordon wins best new old artist
01/15/2026

Kim Gordon wins best new old artist

Taken from the album PLAY ME, out March 13th on Matador Records. Pre-save / pre-order PLAY ME here:Stream “NOT TODAY”: https://kimgordon.lnk.to/nottodayWatch...

Analog forever!
12/27/2025

Analog forever!

Punk’s most durable argument was never only musical.

Artist Amy Boone McCreesh returns to her Alma Mater at Towson University to spend a day with current TU Student, Annie T...
11/25/2025

Artist Amy Boone McCreesh returns to her Alma Mater at Towson University to spend a day with current TU Student, Annie Tamini

Professional Development & Career November 24, 2025 A Day in the Life: Towson University’s Studio Art MFA I Went Back to My Alma Mater to Spend a Day With Current TU Student, Annie Tamini Words: Amy Boone-McCreesh,  Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Share Facebook X Blue...

Another true story!
11/08/2025

Another true story!

“…they were all the freaks of Denver, a lot of cute boys and nutty girls.” —Andy Warhol from his diaries, writing about his first trip to Denver.

China Maren's first novel: "The Avenue"
10/16/2025

China Maren's first novel: "The Avenue"

UP AND DOWN THE AVENUE China Martens New Novel Explores Life in Hampden Circa 2004 Words by: Jack Livingston China … Continued

New Baltimore Art Worker Substack post with updates and a section written for but not included in the book "TROUBLE: a S...
08/08/2025

New Baltimore Art Worker Substack post with updates and a section written for but not included in the book "TROUBLE: a Seventies Memoir".

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