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- Patricia S. Farber, a former private school art teacher and volunteer, died Mary 10 of lung cancer at her home in Brewster, Mass. The former longtime Towson resident was 87.
- Frances W. Riepe, a former interior decorator who had been a trustee of Ladew Gardens, died Friday of congestive heart failure at her home in the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 91.
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- Guilford centennial celebration to end with benefit gala for Sherwood Gardens
- A musician who has pioneered the use of the bass clarinet as a solo instrument and two sculptors were named Thursday as the winners of the 2014 Baker Artist Awards
- Sculptor Devin Mack, of Towson, Cockeysville chocolatier Kimberley Rigby, and painter Patrick Reid O'Brien, of Towson, will show their wares at the Sugarloaf Festival April 25-27 at the Timonium Fairgrounds.
- William Voss Elder III, a retired Baltimore Museum of Art curator who assisted first lady Jacqueline Kennedy during the 1960s to bring antique furnishing to the White House, died of heart failure Thursday at Northwest Hospital Center. The Upperco resident was 82.
- Baltimore arts groups, including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Museum of Art and Artscape, receive more than $2.5 million in NEA grants
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- When you paint on a wall in the middle of the city, people want to talk to you.
- When you paint on a wall in the middle of the city, people want to talk to you.
- Josephine Atwater, a retired Department of Human Resources employee who was a founding member of the Renaissance Institute at Notre Dame of Maryland University, died of cancer Thursday at her Halethorpe home. She was 89.
- No one will be arrested for either stealing the painting or possessing stolen property.
- Longer look at Sun brief on Baltimore Lab School in Charles Village buying its building and severing ties with Washington Lab School.
- Louis G. Hecht, an owner of the Triangle Sign Co. and antiques appraiser who immersed himself in Baltimore's classic jazz scene, died of congestive heart failure Saturday, his 92nd birthday, at Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital. He lived in Pikesville.
- Renoir will be shown alongside other works collected, created by heiress Saidie May
- For the final time, the Roland Park Civic League met at the Roland Park Presbyterian Church on the first Thursday in February. Staring March 5, the league's monthly meetings switch permanently to Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
- Dr. Anatol H. "Harry" Oleynick, a retired neurologist who taught for half a century at the University of Maryland Medical School, died Feb. 19 of cancer at the Veterans Administration Hospital on Loch Raven Boulevard in Northeast Baltimore. The former longtime Timonium resident was 83.
- Tiny Renoir landscape from 1879 hides its secrets well
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- Patricia W. Waters, a homemaker, Anglophile and mother of filmmaker John Waters, died Saturday of unknown causes at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 89.
- Gift from Tom and Nancy O'Neil includes works by such prominent artists as Dawoud Bey and Edward Burtynsky.
- A program at The Walters honors two local men who helped recover thousands of priceless artworks stolen by the Nazis before and during World War II
- Richard M. Lansburgh, a retired clothier, philanthropist and arts patron, died of multiple organ failure Tuesday at the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center one day short of his 92nd birthday. He lived in North Baltimore.
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- "Paysage Bords de Seine" won't be available for public viewing until late March.
- It took the Internet to bring together these two Hopkins med-school alums
- A federal court judge signed an order Tuesday clearing the way for a stolen Renoir landscape to be speedily returned to the Baltimore museum
- When I was laid off from a legal administrative assistant job in New York, it made sense to move back to Baltimore. Here, I am combining my continuing job search with giving of my time to worthwhile organizations. Meanwhile I cannot help but observe the differences between living in an exciting world capital with living in a — well, smaller city.
- Last-minute filing comes on eve of hearing
- The Baltimore Museum of Art's request for a summary judgment awarding it title to the painting could turn on the rules governing hearsay
- T. Wayne Biggs had said he lacked chance to scrutinize declarations by Baltimore Museum of Art staff; judge ruled that they did not constitute new evidence
- Attorney T. Wayne Biggs argues that he didn't have a chance to scrutinize two declarations by staff members of the Baltimore Museum of Art
- Baltimore Museum of Art argues for admissibility of documents
- A diminutive landscape by Renoir that was stolen from the BMA in 1951 must be returned to its rightful owner