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Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | yesterday
Friday, December 5, 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Free BMA Members*$10 non-Members $5 Students with valid I.D. Baltimore Museum of Art Enjoy an evening of multimedia performances featuring winners from the Sound Off! competition and a lineup of local musicians and writers presenting original works, including young poets from the Maryland Institute College of Art and Baltimore Composers Forum members...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
"Due to stock market turmoil, endowments at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra have dropped by millions of dollars, limiting the money that can be withdrawn for operating expenses. State grants have been cut significantly." But it's the Baltimore Opera Company that's suffered most in the economic crisis: It may not even finish the season....
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Economic downturn reduces income from endowments and contributions A s the Baltimore Opera Company rehearsed last month for the production of Bellini's Norma , it faced a serious problem: Its available cash had dried up. With rumors spreading about the company folding, a board member ensured that the show would open - by making a personal guarantee to cover the cast's salaries.
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Scotto's Wall Scrawls (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
1115081644.jpg , originally uploaded by scottobear . Went to the Baltimore Museum of art with BHK and Alice after Papermoon diner for lunch.
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Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Join Myrtis Bedolla, Founding Director of Galerie Myrtis for a lecture on the gallerist’s approach to selecting artists, the influence auction houses, collectors and philanthropists have on the selection process and their impact on the African-American art market. New York artist M. Scott Johnson will share his unique perspective as an African-American sculptor whose artwork has been featured in exhibitions...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
I'm going to see the Franz West retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art tomorrow. I'm feeling full of the participatory, Westian spirit, so I'll Twitter my visit to the show. Click here to follow my tweets.
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
The City of Baltimore Celebrates Edgar Allan Poe's 200th Birthday
with Series of Events in 2009
BALTIMORE, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The year 2009 marks the bicentennial
of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the greatest writers in Western
Civilization. In honor of his 200th birthday, the city of Baltimore has
just announced the city-wide celebration Nevermore 2009. Edgar Allan Poe
has strong ties...
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The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Retrospectives of two veteran contemporary artists who make a lot of people happy, including me, have opened, as if on order for hard times. “Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work 1972-2008,” at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and “Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone,” at . . .
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American Artist (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
John A. Parks examined the art of Giorgio Morandi in the December issue of American Artist. In one section, he asserted, "[His] paintings are a testimony to the act of something deeply contemplated. It is a kind of painting that...
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art has organized the first comprehensive survey in the United States of Franz West, an internationally acclaimed Austrian artist whose singular vision has resulted in one of the most remarkable bodies of work produced since the 1960s. On view at the BMA October 12, 2008 – January 4, 2009, Franz West, To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972-2008...
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The BMA takes on the complicated task of reassembling Franz West's sculpture for this weekend's opening of his first comprehensive U.S. exhibit T he next exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art won't open until Sunday, but it has already set one record.
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Baltimore, MD - Majestic settings of the English countryside have inspired writers and artists from the poetry of William Wordsworth to the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. This fall, the BMA focuses on the transforming British landscape in Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints. On view through December 7, 2008, this one gallery exhibition features an array of more than 20 prints, watercolors,...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Citywide promotions offer over 300 free arts activities
BALTIMORE, Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking for an affordable getaway
this fall? Head to Baltimore for the third annual Free Fall Baltimore, a
citywide promotion offering visitors and residents over 300 free arts and
culture activities from October 1 through October 31, 2008. This year, Free
Fall is bigger than ever with more than 80 participating...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
MONTCLAIR, NJ.- The Montclair Art Museum presents Cezanne and American Modernism, on view through January 3, 2010. It is widely known that Paul Cézanne (18391906) deeply influenced Cubism and the direction of 20th-century art. However, relatively little comprehensive research has considered the specific impact of Cézanne on the work of key American artists. The Montclair Art
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
MINNEAPOLIS.- Darsie Alexander, Senior Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), has been named Chief Curator at the Walker Art Center effective November 10. She succeeds Philippe Vergne who left the museum in August to become director of New York's Dia Art Foundation. As the Walker's Chief Curator, Alexander will work with the
