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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Timonium, Smithsonian Institution, Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), NASA
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Ten objects that sum up Gary Vikan's life
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of occasional features on prominent local residents and the possessions they treasure. You can get a pretty good idea of someone's journey through life by looking at the objects with which he surrounds...
Tags: Arts, Sundance Film Festival, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Museums
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At Walters' Richard Caton Woodville exhibit, a 20th painting discovered
For the past 158 years, art historians thought that the painter Richard Caton Woodville, the James Dean of his generation, had completed just 19 paintings before he died of a morphine overdose in 1855 at age 30. Now, we know that there were 20. Joy...
Tags: Morphine (drug), Artists, Arts, University of Maryland Medical School, Painting
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Stanford University to preserve Walters Art Museum's digital manuscript collection
The Walters Art Museum, a trail-blazer in digitizing its collection and making it available online, has reached an agreement with Stanford University Libraries to give more than 100,000 high-res images of medieval manuscripts what is being called "a...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Six finalists announced for 2013 Sondheim Prize
Six finalists were announced Wednesday for the 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize — and the prestigious award is edging more toward alternate media than it ever has before. The candidates in the running to win the eighth annual award include two...
Tags: Arts, Landover, Arts and Culture, Artscape, Photography
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The BMA's shrinking staff
It's one of the ironies of the art world that major cultural institutions like the Baltimore Museum of Art are home to priceless collections of paintings, sculpture and other works by the world's greatest masters, yet they often struggle to come up with...Tags: Unemployment, Economy, Business and Finance, Layoffs and Downsizing, Financial Markets, Career and Workplace
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Baltimore Museum of Art lays off 14 employees
More than five years after a financial crisis ravaged the U.S. economy, the Baltimore Museum of Art has finally run out of options. Museum administrators announced Monday that after exhausting other cost-cutting measures, they have laid off 14 employees,...
Tags: Unemployment, Job Layoffs, Lobbying, Artists, Layoffs and Downsizing
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Andrew Balio, Nola Richardson featured in baroque concert at Walters Art Museum
The sculpture court at the Walters Art Museum is one of Baltimore's most inviting spaces. Acoustically, it's a bit of a soup, but who cares in such an ambience? That point was drive home Sunday evening when An Die Musik Live and the Walters presented...
Tags: Carney (music group), Arts, Arts and Culture
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Caton heir was a great patriot as well as a painter
In a review of the Walters Art Museum show of paintings by 19th-century American artist Richard Caton Woodville, reporter Mary McCauley writes that "the real mystery ... is why so little about the painter is known today — even in his hometown" ("...
Tags: Morphine (drug), Politics, Mexico, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Only 5 percent of city retirees receiving Medicare are 'healthy'
The statistic was so attention-grabbing that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stopped and repeated it: Nearly half of Baltimore's municipal employees and retirees have a "critical or chronic" illness Rawlings-Blake emphasized the statistic as part of last...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Career and Workplace, Employees, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Government Health Care
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Walters explores work of Caton heir who lived fast, died young
The handsome young man sitting in the pink parlor chair radiates restlessness, a disdain for social conventions and undeniable self-satisfaction. The impatience in Richard Caton Woodville's "Self-Portrait with Flowered Wallpaper" can be detected in...
Tags: Morphine (drug), Artists, Charles Street, Painting, Fine Artists
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Museums, cultural institutions taking a snow day
Schools and government offices aren't the only things closing down in anticipation of today's snowstorm. Here is a partial list, continually being updated, of cultural and commercial institutions shutting down for the day. The American Visionary Art...
Tags: National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Maryland Science Center, U.S. Coast Guard, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, National Aquarium Baltimore
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