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The Walters' new director will emphasize the permanent holdings, community outreach and might even collect contemporary art - $28 million project, due to be completed in fall 2014, will reopen main entrance to the public for first time since 1982, showcase American wing and reconfigure east wing entrance/lobby.
- Changes afoot at Station North, Aquarium, Inner Harbor, more
- Baltimore area's most popular dog destinations offer room to roam, social activity
- 3D printing is featured this week at the American Alliance of Museums conference in Baltimore
- Edward Henry Weiss, a retired marketing executive who put the name Wacky Noodle on a children's flotation device used in swimming pools, died of a stroke.
- Dr. Ruth H. Singer, a retired physician who was a state health administrator and later worked in AIDS and HIV treatment at Chase Brexton Health Services, died of pancreatic cancer May 27 at her North Baltimore home. She was 69.
- Scrabble at the Bain Center perfect way for seniors to scrabble their brains.
- Baltimore pulls plug on Kanye West video event
- If you live around the BMA, the Walters or the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Kanye West is coming to a wall near you Sunday night.
- Helen Bruce Thomas, a retired nurse and homemaker, died April 23 at Rogerson House Assisted Living in Boston of dementia complications. The former resident of Phoenix, Baltimore County, was 89.
- $25,000 awards go to cellist Dariusz Skoraczewski, installation artist Jonathan Latiano and photographer Lynne Parks
- Action in Maturity (AIM), a Hampden-based transportation service for seniors in north Baltimore, celebrates its 40th year May 2. We talk to Esther Bonnet, 100, and City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke, who founded AIM. We also talk to AIM director Liz Briscoe.
- Longest-serving head of art school has overseen significant growth in enrollment, campus size and endowment
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- A tiny landscape painted by Renoir on a napkin that was stolen from the BMA more than 60 years ago still belongs in Baltimore and should be returned.
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- Mavis S. "Sherry" Sheedy, a retired Baltimore City public schools art teacher and museum docent, died April 4 from congestive heart failure. She was 74.
- HBO sitcom 'VEEP,' shot in Md., savvily explores modern anxieties
- Layoffs of 14 employees at the Baltimore Museum of Art driven by lingering effects of the 2008 recession
- Maryland's largest museum reduces staff by 9 percent due to lingering effects of the recession
- The woman who bought a long-lost Renoir at a flea market deserves to get something out of it.
- Baltimore helped the modernist painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Today, 98 years later, this could be the city where he begins his comeback.
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- U.S. attorney seeks court's help in determining owner of painting taken from Baltimore Museum of Art
- Carole Lynn Maier, a stained-glass artist and former House of Ruth board president, died of an auto-immune lung ailment Feb. 24 at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Kingsville resident was 60.
- Aquarium, zoo, museums closing because of snowstorm
- Mary J. Corey, whose personal warmth was matched by a drive that led her to become the first woman in The Baltimore Sun's 176-year history to head its newsroom, died Tuesday of breast cancer.
- A rising star, Marciari-Alexander will succeed Gary Vikan
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- Dr. William Dewey Blake, a retired University of Maryland School of Medicine professor, died of cancer Feb. 3 at his Bath, Maine, home. The former Bolton Hill resident was 94.
- Ben Carson, Edward St. John, Eddie Brown, Frank Kelly share their personal experiences
- Margaret W. Brooks, a homemaker, volunteer and avid gardener, died Dec. 28 of a cerebral hemorrhage at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. She was 93.
- With all the usual fresh-look-forward talk prompted by the new year, it's a good time to consider broadening your musical horizons to include performances presented by groups that might have been off your radar.
- Terry Musika, an accountant and expert witness who worked in business fraud and patent damages claims, died of pancreatic cancer Dec. 18 at his Hunt Valley home. He was 64.
- Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art perfect for holiday escapes.
- Museums are popular destinations during the holiday season. After people have opened presents, eaten more than they should, and otherwise spent quantity time and hopefully quality time with family and friends, they may develop cabin fever. Most people will rush out to big box retailers in order to use their gift cards, while the cultural consumers among them also will find that a museum visit is in order.
