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Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal
Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...
Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Science and Technology, Yale University, Children's Museum
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R. Lucille Eliasberg, former executive assistant at Roland Park Country School
R. Lucille Eliasberg, a former executive assistant at the Roland Park Country School who was known equally for her charm and toughness, will be remembered Saturday at the school where her daughter and granddaughter followed her. Ms. Eliasberg died of...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Tourism and Leisure, Christianity, Ellicott City, Charles Street
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Major art museum group bolsters rules for acquiring ancient art
The ethics for adding ancient works to American art museum collections became substantially more stringent five years ago when the Assn. of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) decided to set the bar higher -- prompted by complaints from Italy, Greece and other...Tags: New York City, Ethics, Maxwell Anderson, The Getty, Arts and Culture
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Mary Alma Lears, Walters docent
Mary Alma O'Connor Lears, a former Walters Art Museum volunteer guide whose keen eyes alerted officials to a $1 million theft later linked to a gallery security guard, died of lung disease Jan. 24 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Towson and former Roland...Tags: Theft, Christianity, The New York Times, Science and Technology, World War II (1939-1945)
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Walters Art Museum finds rare photo of African-American sculptor
A stroll through a Baltimore antique shop has turned up an unsuspected treasure — a rare photograph of Mary Edmonia Lewis, the first 19th century African-American sculptor to receive international recognition. The Walters Art Museum, which...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Sculpture, Museums, Arts
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Black and White Party features vintage idea, youthful appeal
The storms of winter 2010 shut down roads, cancelled classes, closed up shops and nearly ended a signature Baltimore event before it started. On a cold January night, organizers of the Pratt Contemporaries' inaugural Black and White Party watched the...
Tags: Fells Point, Moschino, Snow Storms, Leonardo DiCaprio, Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Margaret W. "Margie" Brooks, homemaker
Margaret W. "Margie" Brooks, a homemaker, volunteer and avid gardener, died Dec. 28 of a cerebral hemorrhage at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 93.
The daughter of an insurance executive and a homemaker, Margaret Eloise Wells was born in...Tags: Sheppard Pratt Health System, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Arts and Culture, Union Memorial Hospital, Roland Park
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Arthur J. Gutman, insurance broker
Arthur J. Gutman, a retired insurance broker and former H.L. Mencken Society president, died of respiratory failure Nov. 27 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former North Baltimore resident was 101.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Adolph B. Gutman...Tags: Armed Forces, Charles Street, Preakness Stakes, World War II (1939-1945), Baltimore Museum of Art
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Monumental undertaking
Tonight, we celebrate the season with the lighting of Baltimore's Washington Monument. But unless we take needed action, we are at risk of losing this festive tradition — along with one of our city's most iconic landmarks. Sadly, the monument...
Tags: Mount Vernon Place, Washington Monument, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Legg Mason, Inc., Baltimore School for the Arts
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Holiday viewing at the Walters, BMA
Art museums always come in handy during the holidays, when so many people are looking for enjoyable ways to while away the hours with friends and family — or to escape from friends and family. This weekend, consider checking out the Baltimore...
Tags: Andy Warhol, Charles Street, Emmaus, Baltimore Museum of Art, Hobbies
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