They honored the wrong people at City Hall over the weekend. They brought in the last four mayors of Baltimore and unveiled their official portraits, which are lovely. In fact, they should have honored the artists and skipped the ex-mayors altogether.
You can read about the great unveiling in reporter Giacomo Bologna’s first-rate story on The Baltimore Banner website. The story is accompanied by photos of Sheila Dixon, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Catherine Pugh and Bernard “Jack” Young, the four ex-mayors.
There are also photos of Megan Lewis, Karen Warshal and Kennedy Ringgold. Their work is marvelous, as is Baltimore-based “street artist” Gaia’s. They are the four artists. Their portraits almost make us forget that the people they’ve painted did not exactly spend their time in office bringing salvation to the city of Baltimore…