baltimore museum of art

• Features

Lawyer for 'Renoir Girl' casts doubt on BMA's ownership of painting

Court filing raises questions about evidence presented by museum

• Arts and Culture

Deana Haggag's 10 favorite visual arts exhibitions of 2013

MICA graduate Deana Haggag, 26, was named director of the Contemporary Museum this year.

• Arts and Culture

Two free arts-related speaking series kick off in Baltimore on Jan. 13

The Contemporary museum brings in national artists; at the Ivy Bookshop, local icons discuss books that influenced their lives

• Obituaries

Phyllis Brotman, who blazed trail for women in business, dies at 79

Phyllis Brotman blazed a trail for women in Baltimore business

• Sun Investigates

Art inflates, and so does much else

• Arts and Culture

Baltimore Museum of Art asks judge to dismiss woman's claims to Renoir painting

Motion for summary judgment argues that even good-faith purchasers have no claim to stolen property

• Obituaries

Margaret P. "Maggie" Brewster, sportswoman

Margaret P. "Maggie" Brewster, an inveterate sportswoman who hunted foxes, skied and played tennis, died Nov. 23 of multiple myeloma at her home in the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 82.

• Food & Drink

Sauerkraut and turkey: an essential Baltimore Thanksgiving

The workmen who built the Great Wall of China ate it for strength. Sailors on early American clipper ships consumed it for health during long voyages.

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Nov 25, 2013

• Arts and Culture

Hearing set to determine ownership of stolen Renoir

A hearing has been set for Jan. 10 on a motion to return "Paysage Bords de Seine" to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Meanwhile, settlement discussions are ongoing.

• Arts and Culture

Baltimore Museum of Art to reopen original entrance in November 2014

The Baltimore Museum of Art will reopen its historic entrance Nov. 23, 2014 to mark the museum's centennial. The entrance has been closed to the public since 1982.

• Baltimore City Paper

BMA puts Morris Louis in the company of Rothko, Stella, and de Kooning

• Arts and Culture

Back Story: Charles Street winds its way through the heart of Baltimore

From its humble origins on the shores of the Patapsco River in industrial and rail-clogged South Baltimore, Charles Street transforms itself during its 10.9-mile journey through the heart of the city as it progresses north through the fashionable and wealthy tenderloin neighborhoods of Guilford, Homeland, Woodbrook, Murray Hill and into Baltimore County.

• Opinion

Teacher-student dynamic at work in 'Red'

Play about artist Mark Rothko, assistant reunites BSA instructor, alum in Everyman production

• Baltimore City Paper

BMA shows dozens of Matisse's drawings of his daughter

• Arts and Culture

Lou Reed left mark at the Baltimore Museum of Art with Warhol audio tour

Visitors to the popular exhibit "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade" at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Oct. 17, 2010 to Jan. 9, 2011, could hear Reed's voice providing the narration on the audio tour.

• Carroll County Times

Fiber artist who works with beads to speak Oct. 30

Joyce J. Scott to discuss weaving, quilting, beadwork and glasswork Oct. 30

• Obituaries

Dorothy Higdon, of Mays Chapel, secretary and scout volunteer

Dorothy Beksinski Higdon, a homemaker and former secretary once active in scouting, died of heart disease Friday at her Mays Chapel home. She was 89.

• Maryland

Queen of Beadwork visits McDaniel

• Baltimore County

Towson artist gains notice sculpting unique furniture from plywood

Sculptor and craftsman David Knopp of Towson, who creates unique furniture out of plywood, currently has an exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 1012, he won the Mary Sawyer Baker Artist Award and one of his desks was even used in the television series "Veep" during filming in Maryland.

• Unrest

Baltimore Museum of Art showcases work by An-My Le, Gerard Byrne

Exhibit at BMA features An-My Le's photos of post-war Vietnam, Marines training for Iraq war, and American military around the world; and Gerard Byrne's droll take on the Loch Ness Monster.

• Obituaries

Geraldine G.M. Dell, artist

Geraldine G. M. Dell, an artist who was active in various cultural and educational institutions, died Oct. 9 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 65.

• Baltimore City Paper

What's up with jazz and blues

• Maryland

Fishers recognized for 60-plus years of volunteerism

• Features

Couple rebuilds home from wreckage of derecho

Baltimore home rebuilt after storm damage

• Opinion

Baltimore's next challenge: Vacant properties

With the kind of coalition that produced a historic school construction initiative, Baltimore can eliminate blight on an unprecedented scale.

• Maryland

Museums hosts free admission

• Arts and Culture

Lewis Museum struggles with attendance, fundraising

Maryland taxpayers kick in to cover shortfall

• Arts and Culture

One woman's life, as depicted by her dad

The only daughter of eminent French artist Henri Matisse lived a long, eventful life. That is not what some might have predicted for Marguerite Matisse, who is the subject of an intimate, intriguing new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

• Obituaries

Mary LeG. Fisher, homemaker

Mary LeG. Fisher, a homemaker and volunteer, died Aug. 18 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. She was 97.

• Maryland

Dolly Merritt: Learning new lessons

• Opinion

Urban terrorists on dirt bikes

Terrorists on dirt bikes

• Baltimore City Paper

ROBOKOP, Gladys Knight, Great Train Robbery, Bell Foundry Summer Ender celebration, and more

• Obituaries

Mildred A. Blumenthal, philanthropist

Mildred A. "Mitzi" Blumenthal, a former substitute teacher and philanthropist, died Monday from anemia at Sunrise of Pikesville, an assisted-living facility. She was 96.

• Food & Drink

Dining tips for Tuesday, Aug. 20; Tuesdays with Gertie

One of Baltimore's longest-running early-week specials is Tuesdays with Gertie, when "Gertrude's Restaurant becomes 'Gertie's Cafe'.'

• Opinion

I'll have a dram

• Food & Drink

Dining tips for Thursday, Aug. 15; a great day for boeuf bourguignonne

Thursday is Julia Child's 101st birthday. Celebrate with boeuf bourguignonne.

• Baltimore City Paper

Recent shows raise the question of what museums do

• Opinion

From Italy, with love: the pizza

• Obituaries

Sidney Silber, baker and engineer

Sidney Silber, a retired real estate developer, philanthropist and accomplished gardener who once ran his family's bakery, died of cancer Tuesday at his Lutherville home. He was 95.

• Obituaries

Paul Goodman, construction firm executive and artist

Paul Goodman, a retired construction company executive and artist, died July 18 from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Fox Hill, a Bethesda assisted-living facility. He was 96.

• Baltimore City Paper

Whoarfrost, Brett Dennen, Major Lazer, Other Colors, and more

• Obituaries

Susa Kessler

Susa Kessler, a retired World Bank analyst who had fled Nazi Germany as a child, died of breast cancer complications Tuesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Canton resident was 88.

• Harford

Maritime museum efforts enhance the community [Editorial]

The effort shows the potential strength of volunteer organizations when it comes to enhancing the community

• Baltimore City Paper

Steve Miller Band, Mindless Behavior, Buckcherry, Out of Your Head Collective, and more

• Opinion

The Sun needs a full-time critic covering the visual arts

The Sun needs a full-time critic covering the visual arts

• Arts and Culture

Sondheim prize goes to photographer who chronicled inmate's re-entry

Gabriela Bulisova, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate whose photographs depict the return to freedom of a woman imprisoned for half her life for a double murder, is the winner of this year's $25,000 Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize.

• Maryland

Anthony Lopata, 87, of Westminster

• Baltimore City Paper

Finally, a long overdue article on gentrification and its relationship to local arts venues and businesses

• Arts and Culture

Walters Art Museum showcases 2013 Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists

Photography dominates this year's exhibit, with powerful imagery from Gabriela Bulisova, Larry Cook, Nate Larson and Louis Palu.

• Arts and Culture

Julia Marciari-Alexander draws out a new vision for the Walters

The Walters' new director will emphasize the permanent holdings, community outreach and might even collect contemporary art