John Waters: Indecent Exposure
Baltimore Museum of Art 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
Event price: Free
The first major retrospective of John Waters’ visual art in his hometown of Baltimore examines the artist’s influential career through more than 160 photographs, sculpture, soundworks, and video he has made since the early 1990s. These works deploy Waters’ renegade humor to reveal the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy. Exhibition highlights include a photographic installation in which Waters explores the auras and absurdities of famous films and a suite of photographs and sculpture that propose humor as a way to humanize dark moments in history from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11.