A new exhibition highlights the work of a Baltimore painter.
Sometimes you don’t have to look very far to find iconic artists. Such is the case for Richard Caton Woodville, who was born and raised in Mt. Vernon and created some of the most well-known paintings...
100 years after her death, Harriet Tubman continues to inspire artists.
Harriet Tubman left Dorchester County without a trace, covertly returning again and again to shepherd away slaves, so maybe it’s appropriate that such an underground legend still casts something of a...
100 years after her death, Harriet Tubman continues to inspire artists. Baltimore Arts & Culture editor, John Lewis, assembled this playlist of music inspired by Harriet Tubman. Listen below...
Don’t look now, but a world-class opera singer is living in Baltimore.
The sounds of tuning violins, deliberate piano notes, and operatic singing bounce through the corridors of Peabody’s Leakin Hall on a Monday afternoon. The singing comes from a spacious, high-...
Manil Suri (W.W. Norton & Company)In his third book, Suri twists the apocalyptic, on-the-road novel into a peculiar love story that’s both tawdry and hopeful. The acclaimed novelist and UMBC...
A party at the Creative Alliance celebrates the legacy of Bob Marley.
When Andre Mazelin was growing up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, he went to school with Ziggy Marley and remembers his father, Bob, waiting to pick him up in the courtyard. Fast forward years later and...
John Waters performs in the latest version of his cult classic.
The tagline for Hairspray could read something like, “Your favorite movie, now a musical, now a movie, now a . . . symphony concert?” That’s right, John Waters’s beloved 1988 film about racial...
Everyman makes a bold move to the Westside and taps into theater history.
Before giving a tour of Everyman Theatre’s new home on W. Fayette Street, artistic director Vincent Lancisi pauses beside a table of artifacts in the construction office next door. The items on the...
Our extended interview with Dave Heumann of Arbouretum.
What do you think of Thrill Jockey signing all these Baltimore bands, including Arbouretum, over the past few years? It's fine with me. We've always had good bands here, but I think it took the...
For a band that makes such heavenly music, Beach House is incredibly down to earth.
Walking through Beach House’s Fells Point rehearsal space is like visiting an island of misfit musical toys. Dozens of keyboards and amps, with cables snaking between them, line the floor, and some...
