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Towson museum brings nuisance and noise
One of the ironies of the art world is that for all its important holdings the Baltimore Museum of Art is laying off 14 people in order to balance its budget ("Baltimore Museum of Art lays off 14," April 9). Yet right over the city line, in Towson,...
Tags: Museums, Arts, Arts and Culture
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Mavis S. 'Sherry' Sheedy, art teacher
Mavis S. "Sherry" Sheedy, a retired Baltimore public schools art teacher and longtime museum docent, died April 4 of congestive heart failure at Carroll Hospital Center in Westminster. The Reisterstown resident was 74. The daughter of a civil engineer...
Tags: Verizon Communications, Baylor University , Dyslexia, Pimlico, Heart Failure
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'VEEP' goes deep in Season 2, and there's more Julia Louis-Dreyfus to love
"Deep" and "sitcom" are not words often used in the same sentence. But a visit to the "VEEP" soundstage in Columbia gave a glimpse of the larger cultural power of this savvy satire from HBO, returning for its second season Sunday night. I also came away...Tags: Matt Walsh, Gary Cole, Politics, Homeland (tv program), Reid Scott
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The BMA's shrinking staff
It's one of the ironies of the art world that major cultural institutions like the Baltimore Museum of Art are home to priceless collections of paintings, sculpture and other works by the world's greatest masters, yet they often struggle to come up with...Tags: Museums, The Getty, Arts and Culture, Layoffs and Downsizing, Economy, Business and Finance
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Baltimore Museum of Art lays off 14 employees
More than five years after a financial crisis ravaged the U.S. economy, the Baltimore Museum of Art has finally run out of options. Museum administrators announced Monday that after exhausting other cost-cutting measures, they have laid off 14 employees,...
Tags: Lobbying, Politics, Museums, The Getty, Artists
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Woman deserves something for her flea market Renoir
Sure, I'd like to see the stolen Renoir painting returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art, but not under the shabby deal your letter writer suggests ("Renoir belongs to BMA," March 21). The linen napkin painted back in 1879 has tremendous value, and the...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture
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Baltimore Museum of Art mounts exhibit of 20th-century avant-garde painter Max Weber
Baltimore helped the avant-garde painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Now, nearly 100 years later, this could be the city where the late artist begins his long-overdue comeback. It's not that critics and curators are unfamiliar with...
Tags: Jackson Pollock, Manhattan (New York City), Painting, Museums, Mark Rothko
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A famous painting for a pittance? Buyer beware
It should be relatively easy for a judge to make a decision in the matter of the small landscape painted on a napkin by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir ("U.S. court enters fray over painting," March 16). Museum collections managers and registrars...
Tags: Justice System, Insurance, Museums, Judges, Artists
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Court's help sought in case of stolen Renoir painting
A federal court in Virginia was asked Friday to determine the proper ownership of a miniature landscape painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and purchased for $7 in a box of odds and ends in a rural flea market. The complaint filed in U.S. District Court for...
Tags: Justice System, Museums, Insurance, Judges, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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Carole L. Maier, artist
Carole Lynn Maier, a stained-glass artist and former House of Ruth board president, died of an autoimmune lung ailment Feb. 24 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Kingsville resident was 60.
Born Carole Lynn Smith in Baltimore and raised in...Tags: Worcester County, Culture, Canterbury, Museums, Johns Hopkins University
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Museums, cultural institutions taking a snow day
Schools and government offices aren't the only things closing down in anticipation of today's snowstorm. Here is a partial list, continually being updated, of cultural and commercial institutions shutting down for the day. The American Visionary Art...
Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, National Aquarium Baltimore, U.S. Coast Guard, Museums, Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum
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Mary J. Corey, first woman to lead Sun newsroom, dies of cancer
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. The Sun's senior vice president and director of content, who...
Tags: Versace, Colleges and Universities, Cancer, Entertainment, Entertainment Events
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