Category Archives: Art

Poe Heroin Lean

two blue stars: “illustration for an in-class magazine spread on how to brand a city i.e. BALTIMORE gouache on shitpaper  this would be more poignant if the bird had some vicious bird junk to exhibit first ever poe heroin lean?” … Continue reading

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Edgar Allan Poe Sculpture by Colin Batty

The Tell-Tale Heart, in Poe’s hands. Colin Batty’s latest sculpture, available exclusively at the Peculiarium. Be quick. There were only 12 made and they are signed and numbered by the artist.

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Arabbers; A Dying Baltimore Tradition Brought to Life By Street Artist Gaia

By Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington, BrooklynStreetArt.com (Huffington Post, 10/16/2012) Street Artist Gaia regularly highlights people from whichever community that he’s painting or wheatpasting in. Passersby commonly stop to talk while he’s working, often adding layers of history, knowledge, opinion, … Continue reading

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The New York Times Travels to Baltimore, Predictably Mentions Beehive Hairdos

By Rachel Monroe (Baltimore Fishbowl, 9/20/2012) The last time the New York Times travel section covered Baltimore, they portrayed the city as a Hon-tastic place full of “beehive hairdos and wacky museums.” Well, better than the Wire-retreads that the European travel sections tend to prefer, … Continue reading

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