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Baltimore Museum of Art mounts exhibit of 20th-century avant-garde painter Max Weber
Baltimore helped the avant-garde painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Now, nearly 100 years later, this could be the city where the late artist begins his long-overdue comeback. It's not that critics and curators are unfamiliar with...
Tags: Arts, Mark Rothko, Baltimore Museum of Art, Fine Artists, Painting
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From Sun Magazine: Q&A: BMA director Doreen Bolger
A large drawing hangs behind Doreen Bolger's desk, dripping with the words "Forward in all directions." The phrase, drawn with bleach on dark paper by Baltimore artist Colin Benjamin, has become something of a mantra for Bolger, the director of the...
Tags: Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Auction Service, Fine Artists, Artists
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From Sun Magazine: Chazz Palminteri brings rustic Italian style to suburban New York
As a young man living in the Bronx, Chazz Palminteri would escape the city on long drives into the Westchester County countryside where he'd tool along curving, forested roads, staring at the set-back mansions. To a guy with empty pockets, the gated lawns...Tags: Bedford (Bronx, New York), Elton John, Entertainment Events, Harbor East, Celebrities
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Catonsville High teacher has respect of his students
James Fitzpatrick leans back in a huge black office chair with wheels and points at a projection on a screen in the front of the classroom, not far from the Soccer Barbie dolls and a clock featuring the portrait of French writer Voltaire.
"Here is the...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Teaching and Learning, Animal Crackers, College Sports, Fine Artists
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Bar review: Wild Willy's doesn't live up to its name
When Wild Willy's Rock House & Sports Saloon opened in Annapolis last year, it promised to be the wildest party in town.
In the promo pictures, waitresses wore microscopic tops and jean shorts, holding on to pool cues and flashing come-hither looks....Tags: The Home Depot, Alcoholic Beverages, Sam Adams (music artist), Whole Foods Market, Billiards, Snooker and Pool
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Herman Maril: Baltimore artist painted what he saw
Herman Maril had two worlds, and each provided him what something the other lacked.
The artist, who was born in Baltimore in 1908 and died here in 1986, spent his life painting some of the grittier aspects of the city. Invariably, his astute and...Tags: Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Libraries, Mount Washington, Tennessee Williams
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A Colorful Life
Sun reporterWhen Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....Tags: Children, Arts, Merce Cunningham, Roland Park, Willem de Kooning
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Uncovering hidden layers of Grace Hartigan
Sun reporterGrace Hartigan, one of Baltimore's most distinguished painters, has been the subject of no less than three important exhibitions this month, at C. Grimaldis Gallery on Charles Street, at the ACA Galleries in New York City and at the Neuberger Museum of...Tags: Peggy Guggenheim, Arts, Continuing Education, Gaming, Baltimore Museum of Art
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Harmonic patterns: New exhibit at Columbia Museum of Art
The StateSteven Naifeh composes happiness by creating art. "Found in Translation: The Art of Steven Naifeh," an exhibition of Naifeh's geometric abstractions, has an almost inescapable allure. Touring the exhibition is like attending a joyous celebration without...Tags: Apple iPod, Arts, Sculpture, Islam, Entertainment Events
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Topless Beatrice Arthur painting part of record $495-million auction
Did it come with a card attached that says, "Thank you for being a friend"? A 1991 painting depicting a topless Bea Arthur that was created by artist John Currin has sold at an auction Wednesday for $1.9 million. The sale was part of a larger Christie's...Tags: J. Crew, Arts, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, The New York Times, Gerhard Richter
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Summer sessions full of variety for kids
The Jamestown Sun, N.D.Cartooning, action painting, sewing, acting and sculpting will be on the agenda for young people at the Arts Center's summer sessions. "It is mind-blowingly fun, and anytime you can stimulate your artists' brains, it opens up so many channels of...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts, Fine Artists, Students
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Christie's contemporary sale is biggest auction in history
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The spring auctions ended on a record-shattering high on Wednesday as Christie's contemporary art sale achieved the highest total - $495 million - in the history of art auctions. Artists' records fell one after another, led by...Tags: Andy Williams, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Mark Rothko, Auction Service, Fine Artists
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