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Walters Art Museum goes off the wall
Paintings in museum-quality frames are popping up outdoors around town — displayed on a post just outside the entrance to Baltimore's City Hall and along Patterson Park, mounted to the wall on a corner of the Avenue in Hampden. These high-quality...
Tags: Arts, Patterson Park, Museums, Fells Point, Arts and Culture
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Art Modell left mark on Baltimore's cultural community
Art Modell did not just play a major role in the sports life of Baltimore. He and his wife Pat were among the region's most generous donors to the city's cultural institutions, including the Lyric Opera House, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art...
Tags: Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, Opera (genre), Charity, Museums
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Art Modell, former Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns owner, dies at 87
The Baltimore SunArt Modell may have returned football to Baltimore, but in the eyes of the silver-haired owner, the Ravens were clearly a team of the people. Eleven years ago, amid a swirl of confetti following the Ravens' Super Bowl victory in Tampa, a tearful Mr....Tags: Lyric Opera of Baltimore, World War II (1939-1945), Companies and Corporations, Electronics, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Walters Art Museum cafe closes, but the Gallery Grill is cooking
The Baltimore SunThe cafe at the Walters Art Museum closed a few weeks ago. Chef’s Expressions, the latest in a line of caterers to operate the space, pulled out on July 2. Museum officials say they are looking for someone to run a scaled-down “grab-and-go&...Tags: Onions, Mount Vernon, Museums, Lifestyle and Leisure, Arts and Culture
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Labor Day schedule and closings
This schedule will be in effect Monday: Government offices, courts and libraries Closed in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard and Frederick counties, and in Baltimore City and Annapolis. Public schools Closed in all jurisdictions....Tags: Maryland Science Center, Career and Workplace, Museums, National Aquarium Baltimore, Port Discovery Children's Museum
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Baltimore needs art
What is one thing that kids from Harlem Park Recreation Center, residents of Remington andBelair-Edison, and refugees from around the globe now living in Baltimore have in common? All have been touched by projects led by Art on Purpose. For the past...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Arts and Culture, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Walters joins crowdsourcing trend with 'Public Property'
It's entirely possible that one of the august and influential guest curators for "Public Property," the summer exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum, was none other than your plumber. Ditto for your postal carrier and your daughter's softball...Tags: Hobbies, Elections, Charity, Gaming, Arts and Culture
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Championing 'the art of right now'
One hopes that the suspension of operations announced this week by the Contemporary Museum turns out to be only a temporary hiatus. The museum has been a mainstay of the Baltimore art scene for more than two decades, and it is almost impossible to imagine...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Arts, Human Interest, Museums, Artists
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Contemporary Museum hopes to reopen
For the Contemporary Museum, which abruptly announced last month that it was suspending operations, the challenge going forward may be implicit in its name: How does it stay contemporary? The museum began exhibiting cutting-edge art in Baltimore 23 years...
Tags: Mark Twain, Mount Vernon, Customs and Tradition, Arts, Museums
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Like/Dislike: Ashley Boycher, associate exhibition designer, Walters Art Museum
Ashley Boycher has always considered public museums "magic places." "Growing up with modest means in rural Louisiana sure will make a kid curious about the world," said Boycher. That curiosity never left her, and she now has been at the Walters for 18...
Tags: Arts, YouTube, Arts and Culture, Hampden
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Baltimore's marble lady stepping down from Calvert Street
Lady Baltimore has withstood much in 189 years perched overlooking Courthouse Square.
She has lost both of her arms over the decades — one of them, holding high a wreath that signifies service to the republic, was sheared off by a gust of wind in...Tags: Mount Vernon, Museums, Washington Monument, Arts and Culture, Fort McHenry
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Apocalypse now? Blame the Pilgrims, not the Mayans
Tony Aveni blames it on the Pilgrims.
If it hadn't been for our prim and quarrelsome ancestors, their descendants might not now be making forecasts that the world will end in 313 days based on a blatant misreading of the Mayan calendar, according to...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Czech Republic, Museums, UFO Sightings, Arts and Culture
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