Expansive lofts inspire expanding minds
By Blake Gopnik
Baltimore is busy establishing itself as the ideal artistic incubator. There's only one question: Will great art come out of it?
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...."All this mixing of bohemian and sober, of art and music and theater and film, suggests another possibility: that it's the scene itself, in all its fascinating complexity, that is the true work of art in Baltimore. These days, the idea of counting "life" as "art" has the grand name of "relational aesthetics," and it's a bit of a Baltimore specialty. Last year's Sondheim winner was a collective whose "works" included a community garden in east Baltimore, as well as a scruffy little pavilion outside the BMA that came with an open invitation for groups to hold events in it.
"I like to think that the definition of art is expansive enough that the community could exist as the artwork," says Hileman.
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