Highlights
For three days every summer, Baltimore's vibrant arts scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape features exhibits, fashion shows, concerts, dance, theater, children's entertainers, food vendors and more than 100 craftspeople. The festivities are centered in Mount Vernon, but galleries across the city hold events to coincide with Artscape. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, which awards $25,000 and the chance to exhibit at a Baltimore museum, has become a major draw for artists across the region. Other competitions include the Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway vocal contests. Highlights of Artscape include outdoor sculptures, art cars, Artist's Market, Art Park and the live music. Best of a...
For three days every summer, Baltimore's vibrant arts scene spills out onto the streets. Artscape features exhibits, fashion shows, concerts, dance, theater, children's entertainers, food vendors and more than 100 craftspeople. The festivities are centered in Mount Vernon, but galleries across the city hold events to coincide with Artscape. The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, which awards $25,000 and the chance to exhibit at a Baltimore museum, has become a major draw for artists across the region. Other competitions include the Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway vocal contests. Highlights of Artscape include outdoor sculptures, art cars, Artist's Market, Art Park and the live music. Best of all, the outdoor arts festival is free.
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Lunch at Artscape with your restaurant critic
Dining@LargeThis is the third year I've gone to Artscape for lunch on opening day. I was sorry to hear there wouldn't be anything new in the food line this year like the green food court last year, but I was...... -
The sad demise of the Maryland crab cake
Dining@LargeOK, that may be a slight exaggeration, but I found myself looking forward to an Artscape crab cake last night. And that's just sick.Please understand. I love jumbo lump crab cakes, well seasoned and with a minimum of filler. I......Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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Reducing a marathon's carbon footprint
Tens of thousands of people will converge on the city in October to watch or participate in the Baltimore Running Festival. But if all goes according to plan, they won't leave much of a footprint. Organizers of the marathon and the day's other races will...Tags: George Washington University, Athletics, Track and Field, Marathon, Under Armour Inc., Shirts (clothing)
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Opera returns to Lyric
The demise of the Baltimore Opera Company last season left a sizable void at the venue where the organization had long made its home. But losing a valued tenant hasn't taken the opera out of the Lyric Opera House. The theater has lined up its own operatic...Tags: Poetry, Music Theater, Renee Fleming, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, University of Virginia
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Photos: Artscape through the years
Baltimore Sun reporterBrowse photos from the last few years at Artscape, Baltimore's annual arts and music festival. -
Artscape road closures and traffic modifications
Baltimore Sun reporterSome streets have already been closed for Artscape. Use this map to figure out how to get to the festival, or how to avoid it. -
Map: Getting around Artscape
Baltimore Sun reporterAmerica's largest free arts festival can be a challenge to navigate. Use this map to find all the musical performances, gallery exhibits, food courts and more. -
Artscape 2009: What's new?
Special to The Baltimore SunBaltimore's annual showcase of the visual and performing arts keeps piling on new features. If it expands much more, it'll be poised to swallow the entire city and we'll have to move it to somewhere more spacious, like Montana. Here are some of the...Tags: Dance, Music Theater, Dancing, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, Maryland Film Festival
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Artscape 2009: Reasons to go
Special to The Baltimore SunBaltimore's famed summer arts festival is a sprawling affair. From July 17 to July 19, live music can be heard on three outdoor stages, a variety of indoor venues and along the streets and sidewalks of the Station North Arts District. Large food courts...Tags: Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, American Visionary Art Museum, Dionne Warwick, Charles Theatre, Festive Event
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All the bells, whistles and 111 bikes
Baltimore Sun reporterBrian Sacawa and Erik Spangler see themselves as sound guerrillas. The co-founders of the Contemporary Museum's off-kilter Mobtown Modern concert series don't just perform experimental music - sometimes they like to sneak up on people with it. That's...Tags: Billie Holiday, George Bush, Music Industry, Guerrilla Activity, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Dionne Warwick, Cake, Robin Thicke to headline Artscape
Alt-rockers Cake, R&B legend Dionne Warwick and pop crooner Robin Thicke will be the headline musical acts at this year's Artscape, organizers announced Wednesday.
Warwick, whose smooth, jazz-influenced vocals have made her one of the most successful...Tags: Festive Event, Mount Royal, Dionne Warwick
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