
“Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection”
John Waters—filmmaker, writer, artist, and the world’s most beloved pervert—is cherished for his singular ability to blend abjection, gumption, glee, and filth into almost anything he does. While his personal creations revel in messiness, his private art collection, the majority of which he gifted to the Baltimore Museum of Art, is getting the star treatment in a show here, curated by Catherine Opie and Jack Pierson. The exhibition, a celebration of paraphilias, pathos, and beauty, highlights roughly ninety pieces from Waters’s bequest. Included are several works tinged by an air of backroom