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Arthur J. Gutman, a retired insurance broker and former H.L. Mencken Society president, died of respiratory failure Nov. 27 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former North Baltimore resident was 101. - Jeffrey B. Holmes, who worked in wine sales and had been a waiter at Baltimore restaurants, died of undetermined causes Nov. 29 at his Ednor Gardens home. He was 42.
- Inside current and future volunteer venues, from Charm City Arts Space to BrickHaus
- Harvey G. Alexander, who founded and served as executive director of the Baltimore Film Festival and also read poetry on WBJC-FM, died Nov. 23.
- Small Business Saturday is just the event, say area small businesses, retailers and boutique clothing stores to bring in customers the day after Black Friday. Among them are Corradetti glass-blowing studio in the Woodberry area, which will hold a Christmas ornament making workshop for families.
- Doreen Bolger leads BMA's growth, closely follows Baltimore's creative community.
- Bill Gilmore, Ted Frankel, Stiles Colwill, Chuck Nabit share the elements behind unforgettable holiday festivities.
- $6.5 million renovation allowed museum officials to redefine what kind of art should hang on gallery walls.
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- Rodney G. Stieff, former chairman of the board and CEO of Kirk-Stieff Co., which was the oldest silversmith firm in the country, died Tuesday of kidney cancer.
- Perhaps the only question more puzzling than who stole a Renoir landscape from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951 is who owns the painting now.
- Dr. James Roncie Duke, a retired ophthalmologist and Johns Hopkins pathologist who was a collector of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald's works and lived in the novelist's Baltimore home, died of dementia complications Oct. 11 in Bolton Hill. He was 88.
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- Relocation a result of renovation project at Baltimore Museum of Art.
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- Competing visions of mass transit for the Charles Street corridor.
- Money will be used to promote month-long program of free arts and cultural events throughout the Baltimore area.
- There was no sign of forced entrance, but few other details were mentioned in the document
- Painting bought for $7 from a W. Va. flea market appears to have been stolen in 1951
- The former Ravens owner and his wife were major donors to local arts groups
- Despite a storm with winds that eventually blew over the chuppa, an outdoor wedding at the Baltimore Museum of Art was nothing short of magical.
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- Janice G. Beck, a former longtime Baltimore Museum of Art docent who was also a wordsmith, died Sunday of a bladder infection and pneumonia at Brighton Gardens of Columbia, a senior-living facility. She was 92.
- Adella "Alli" Russel, a retired Pikesville travel agent who made her way out of Nazi-controlled Germany in the 1930s, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 3 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. She was 96.
- Paul E. Smith, former head coach at Dunbar High School and at McDonogh School who later coached in Baltimore County public schools, died Monday of kidney failure at Maryland General hospital. He was 71.
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- The $28 million project to reconstruct Charles Street starts Sept. 5, when a detour goes into affect. The project will last two years and is expected to have a major impact on motorists, businesses and institutions including Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
- John E. Sparks, an artist, educator and a nationally known printmaker who developed and chaired the department of printmaking at the Maryland Institute College of Art for nearly 40 years, died Aug. 2 of prostate cancer and pneumonia.
- Ann McAllister Hughes, an artist who retired from teaching art at Baltimore public schools and had chaired the art department at Forest Park High School, died July 27 of pulmonary failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
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- E. Carey Kenney, the noted Pikesville artist who had headed the art department at McDonogh School for more than three decades, died Thursday of pneumonia at Season Hospice at Northwest hospital in Randallstown. He was 98.
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- Renee Stout, 2012 winner of the Sondheim Artscape Prize, explores spirituality and culture through her alter ego, Fatima Mayfield.
