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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: Career and Workplace, Washington, DC, Baltimore Museum of Art, Financially Distressed Companies, Politics
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Santa Ana has two finalists for national museum and library medal
Santa could come early to Santa Ana’s cultural scene this year: the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced Thursday that both the Discovery Science Center and the Santa Public Library are finalists for its 2013 National Medal for...
Tags: Culture, Ceremonies, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Libraries, Science and Technology
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Major art museum group bolsters rules for acquiring ancient art
The ethics for adding ancient works to American art museum collections became substantially more stringent five years ago when the Assn. of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) decided to set the bar higher -- prompted by complaints from Italy, Greece and other...Tags: Religion and Belief, Cambodia, Values, Artists, Museums
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Waltee's Cubs programs entertains the 18-months-and-younger set
If you have a small child, you're used to avoiding situations where there's an expectation of quiet. Flying's no fun, the theater's out, and museums are off the list too. But rethink that last one: The Walters Art Museum has a program called Waltee's...
Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Andrew Balio, Nola Richardson featured in baroque concert at Walters Art Museum
The sculpture court at the Walters Art Museum is one of Baltimore's most inviting spaces. Acoustically, it's a bit of a soup, but who cares in such an ambience? That point was drive home Sunday evening when An Die Musik Live and the Walters presented...
Tags: Arts, Carney (music group), Arts and Culture
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Caton heir was a great patriot as well as a painter
In a review of the Walters Art Museum show of paintings by 19th-century American artist Richard Caton Woodville, reporter Mary McCauley writes that "the real mystery ... is why so little about the painter is known today — even in his hometown" ("...
Tags: Arts, Mexico, Politics, Arts and Culture, Morphine (drug)
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Only 5 percent of city retirees receiving Medicare are 'healthy'
The statistic was so attention-grabbing that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stopped and repeated it: Nearly half of Baltimore's municipal employees and retirees have a "critical or chronic" illness Rawlings-Blake emphasized the statistic as part of last...
Tags: Employees, Government Health Care, Health and Safety at Work, Career and Workplace, Health Insurance Cost
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Walters explores work of Caton heir who lived fast, died young
The handsome young man sitting in the pink parlor chair radiates restlessness, a disdain for social conventions and undeniable self-satisfaction. The impatience in Richard Caton Woodville's "Self-Portrait with Flowered Wallpaper" can be detected in...
Tags: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Painting, Colleges and Universities, Genres, Charles Street
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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: Maryland Zoo Baltimore, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, USS Constellation, Baltimore Museum of Art
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City's pain, everyone's gain
There were two odd things about Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's presentation Wednesday at the Walters Art Museum to introduce "Change to Grow," her ambitious plan to put Baltimore's budget on a sustainable path, cut taxes and increase investments in...
Tags: Baltimore Red Line, Local Government, Baltimore County, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Walters Art Museum names new director, Julia Marciari-Alexander
In naming Julia Marciari-Alexander as executive director on Wednesday, the Walters Art Museum board of directors entrusted one of Baltimore's most important arts institutions to a rising star — and signaled an emphasis on community engagement even...
Tags: Financial Aid, Loyola University Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Colleges and Universities, Bill Johnston
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R. Lucille Eliasberg, former executive assistant at Roland Park Country School
R. Lucille Eliasberg, a former executive assistant at the Roland Park Country School who was known equally for her charm and toughness, will be remembered Saturday at the school where her daughter and granddaughter followed her. Ms. Eliasberg died of...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Religion and Belief, Fort Lauderdale, Charles Street, Howard County
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