Urban Discoveries Baltimore

Slip on your big glasses and your air of disaffection, Baltimore, because it’s time for art! Artscape’s not till next weekend, but we’ve got plenty of spectacles to tide you over until then:

1. The Current Gallery Downtown has been living for quite a while like Faustus––on borrowed time. 30 S. Calvert Street is slated for demolition, and to celebrate, the Current (which will soon practice metempsychosis, taking on another form) invites you to, “Abandon Ship.” The exhibit, made up of multi-genre installations to be demolished with the building, opens with a reception tonight, Friday July 10, at 7:00 p.m., and will stand until Doomsday.

2. Whartscape, Wham City’s loving rejoinder to Artscape, takes over north Baltimore this weekend, with shows at the Load of Fun in Station North (120 W. North Avenue), the Baltimore Museum of Art next to Johns Hopkins (10 Art Museum Drive), and the MICA Studio Center parking lot also in Station North (131 W. North Avenue). This year’s Whartscape will consist more of local art and music than, say last year’s. That said, there are dozens and dozens of acts. Lots of tickets are already sold out, so go to the website to get your $19 day passes for Saturday, July 11, and Sunday July 12 at the MICA lot. You might also want to show up fresh-faced and lucky Friday by 5:00 pm at the BMA auditorium to try to pick up an $18 ticket on the spot. To see the Saturday and Sunday night shows at the Load of Fun, you’ll have to put some loving on someone who’s already got a couple passes.

3. The Meyerhoff in Mt. Vernon (1212 Cathedral Street) presents Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho with the original voice track and, to make it even more unsettling, the score performed live by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. This is one of the most parodied scores in the history of popular culture, and it’s still scary as hell. See it on the big screen and hear the violins scream live. Tickets, which will run you between $25 and $55, are available on the website. The show starts at 7:30.

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