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Twenty-one years after they bought the 1830s farmhouse, Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff have completed a glass-and-steel addition that allows them to take full advantage of the panoramic vistas that drew them to the property in the first place. - Led museum for 18 years, now eager to try other pursuits
- Gladys W. Winter, a homemaker and supporter of several Baltimore cultural institutions, died Wednesday of emphysema at her Cross Keys home. She was 88.
- More than 200 people gathered in Turners Station in Dundalk to pay tribute to retired African-American educators who taught in four Baltimore County schools before they were desegregated in the 1960s.
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- Elinora Bowdoin Bolton, a former French teacher who had been a celebrated 1940s women's tennis player, died of heart failure in her sleep Tuesday at the Keswick Multicare Center. The former Howard County resident was 93.
- "Apocalypticism is very American. It's in our bones," says Professor Tony Aveni, who will deliver a lecture next month at the Walters Art Museum in connection with "Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas," an exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum.
- One of the delights of "Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas," the new exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum, is that it creates common ground between contemporary humans and the ancestors from whom we are separated by four millenia.
- "Apocalypticism is very American. It's in our bones," says Professor Tony Aveni, who will deliver a lecture next month at the Walters Art Museum in connection with "Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas," an exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum.
- A downtown circulator makes economic sense
- Robin Budish spends her days rallying support for an idea she says will make downtown Baltimore more livable --- building a streetcar line along Charles Street.
- Baltimore museum to recruit local students for Google design contest.
- Polar Bear Plunge, Miranda Lambert and more
- Plan your week with our guide to everything going on through 1/22
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- Plan your week with our rundown of what's going on in Baltimore 1/9-11/15
- At the BMA, photographer Candida Hofer offers a kinder, gentler vision of gritty Baltimore
- The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland
- Four of Baltimore top arts leaders — choreographer Liz Lerman, Center Stage's Kwame Kwei-Armah, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Marin Alsop and Gary Vikan of the Walters Art Museum — recently got together to brainstorm ideas to take the arts to the next level in Baltimore.
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- DC arts patron bequeaths 260 enameled Russian silver pieces to Walters Arts Museum
- The Walters Art Museum has been putting its stamp on the nation for more than 77 years – but never in quite the way that it's doing this holiday season. "The Madonna of the Candelabra," has been chosen by the U.S. Postal Service as the official Christmas stamp for 2011 and 2012.
- The Walters Art Museum will open a new special exhibition, "Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas," on Feb. 12, giving us an opportunity to learn more about the cultural history of our hemisphere that our schools have long neglected
- Baltimore events, entertainment: Everything you need to know about the week of 12/5-12/11
- Holiday music, Columbia and Baltimore, 'Messiah' and more
- Dorothy McIlvain Scott, a Baltimore philanthropist whose largesse included cultural, medical and educational institutions, died Tuesday in her sleep at her home in the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 99.
- Dorothy McIlvain Scott, a Baltimore philanthropist whose largesse included cultural, medical and educational institutions, died Tuesday in her sleep at her home in the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. She was 99.
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- A new exhibit puts two iconic Baltimore buildings on the same level as top-tier architectural gems from around the world.
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- Jaime Arbona, former customs agent for the ports of entry to Baltimore, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Oct. 20 at his Cedarcroft home. He was 88.
- The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore will host its annual ZooBOOO! Friday-Sunday, Oct. 28-30
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- Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he came to think of as "Archimedes' brain in a box." Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, lost writings of the Greek mathematician, which had been converted into a prayer book.
- Obituary of Patricia Breslin Modell, philanthropist and former TV/film actress
