Artist Grace Hartigan left paintings valued at more than $1 million to MICA and MAP, according to officials from both institutions. Hartigan, who passed away last November, reportedly left 12...
The top three vote getters in our recent Best of Baltimore readers poll will play Rams Head Live this Thursday night. If you missed it, the Kelly Bell Band (pictured) came in at number 3, Can't...
Becoming Billie Holiday, by Baltimore's Carole Boston-Weatherford, has won the American Library Association's Coretta Scott King Award. According to the ALA website, the award is "given to an...
In our "Arts Under Attack" story that ran in the May issue, we reported that local arts organizations could expect some federal stimulus money. This morning, Governor Martin O'Malley announced that...
Not that BDC. The Baltimore Development Corporation is not to be confused with the Baltimore Development Cooperative, the group of artists awarded the $25,000 Sondheim Prize at the BMA over the...
William P. Tandy's excellent Smile, Hon, You're in Baltimore! has been nominated for a 2009 Utne Independent Press Award in the "Best Zine" category. It's a much deserved nod to a publication that...
The $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker Prize has been awarded to saxophonist Carl Grubbs and visual artists John Ruppert and Hadieh Shafie. Check out the Baker Artist Awards site for more info.
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...
Baltimore's Hilary Hahn won a Grammy last night for her recording of the Schoenberg/Sibelius Concertos. She returns triumphantly to town on June 9th for a concert with Marin Alsop and the BSO. They'...
Via webcast, the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance just announced that public voting has begun for the Baker Artist Awards. In making the announcement, GBCA Executive Director Nancy Haragan...
