In Baltimore, Confronting Chaos Through Contemporary Art

In Baltimore, Confronting Chaos Through Contemporary Art

This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. “What is your wildest dream for our future?” That is the question written boldly on the 16-by-11-foot blue wall that is featured in “Dreamseeds,” an interactive art and sound installation. Here …

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Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On

Covid-19: Enduring Images of a Global Crisis, 5 Years On

We asked 19 photographers to revisit their most enduring images of the coronavirus pandemic, five years after the virus became a global threat. Their photographs transport us to that bewildering period in an uncanny sort of time travel. The journalists who captured these scenes were not just covering the Covid-19 …

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How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

How Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wrote Her Way Through Loss

To walk into Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s stately brick home outside Baltimore is to know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that small children live there. It’s not that the kitchen floor is a Lego minefield or that the double staircase is lined with low-hanging fingerprints — quite the opposite. It’s …

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