What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Not one work of art, but several, and all by the same author, Dostoevsky. The Idiot and Poor Folk, Crime and Punishment, The Eternal Husband, The Possessed, and several short stories. When I was in my late teens. this was art, I felt, [...]

You can add today's Sun story about cuts at the Walters to the litany of bad news for local arts organizations. There will be more to come...

Walters cuts staff, spending

Baltimore Theatre Project might be in danger of closing

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra lays off administrative employees

Baltimore Opera bankruptcy filing shows $1.2 million debt

Baltimore Opera seeks Chapter 11 [...]

WTMD has launched an all-Baltimore music radio station at 89.7 FM/HD-2 and on-line at wtmd.org. Apparently, it's the first public radio station to air local artists 24/7. You might want to take a few minutes to visit their site and browse the video and audio archives, especially the "Local Music Player." Check out the Caleb [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Hardly anything highbrow, believe me. In the early 50s, I discovered
the narcotic of reading and my first sense of an author was R. Sidney
Bowen, who'd written a series of WWII boys adventure novels the decade
before. Dave Dawson with the RAF was the first I [...]

Katie Miller will be exhibiting her work at this year's Armory Show (March 5-7) in New York. It's quite an honor for the Parkton artist. Here's some more info...

Miller recently won the prestigious Wynn Newhouse Award, one of four $15,000 grants for artists with disabilities. This year, the jury consisted of Phong Bui, Chuck Close, [...]

Radio From Downtown—the Eastern Shore radio show that Jim Duffy profiled for us a few years ago— returns February 21, after an 18-month hiatus. RFD is always a lot of fun, and here's the skinny on the new show from RFD creator Van Williamson, a producer at NPR. (Williamson is pictured with NPR's Susan Stamberg [...]

What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
It is  a hard question for me cause I can't say that any one work caused an art epiphany, my head is always spinning. As a child I remember being fascinated with the decayed swan boats of Asbury Park  and the artificial sky and fake [...]

Local filmmaker Michael Lawrence embarked on a labor of love two years ago, filming contemporary musicians playing their favorite Bach pieces and talking about them. Like any magical undertaking, the Bach Project took on a life of its own, and Lawrence found himself shooting the likes of Philip Glass, Joshua Bell, Bobby McFerrin, Hilary Hahn, [...]

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A pair of books by Baltimore's Carole Boston Weatherford (Becoming Billie Holiday and Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane) won Coretta Scott King Awards this week at the American Library Association's Mid-Winter Conference in Denver. Baltimore readers know how much we like Weatherford's work, and this sort of acknowledgment is [...]