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Court filing raises questions about evidence presented by museum

Court filing raises questions about evidence presented by museum

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

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

Phyllis Brotman blazed a trail for women in Baltimore business

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 home rebuilt after storm damage

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

Maryland taxpayers kick in to cover shortfall

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.

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

Terrorists on dirt bikes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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