❤️🔥 #Repost @derrickadamsny ・・・ By Sameer Rao @amancalledsrao @baltimoresun @baltcityhallgallery @flickeria_kirk . To live in and love Baltimore is to understand that its greatest charms lie below the surface. Its problems, and the way people in power continually frame them, obscure the real beauty within. Derrick Adams knows this truth well, even if he spent most of the past three decades living in another, more obviously glamorous city . “I was at a party last night in New York, an ARTNews party that was to celebrate Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, who are collectors of mine,” the 49-year-old artist said. “I left the party early to come here, for this today, and I was telling my friends, ‘I’m going to my country house!” . This” was his interview with The Baltimore Sun on a hot Friday morning in late September. “My country house” referred to the large detached house, overlooking a quiet tree-lined street in the Waverly neighborhood.