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A virtual milestone
Library hounds, research heads and history buffs, Robert Darnton has been reading your diary. Darnton, the university librarian at Harvard University, envisioned a digital library available free of charge to the public that would provide online access...
Tags: University of Georgia, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Education, Arts, Yale Center for British Art
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Star Trek: The Next Generation (tv program), Chemical Industry, Liberty Bell, Science, Inner Harbor
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A peek inside the H&H building
I went in search of a place recently named the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District and found myself inside one of its most prominent addresses. But like so many places in Baltimore where artists live and work, you have to be introduced or know a...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Rentals, Arts, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Museums
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Art appreciation for babies
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...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Arts and Culture
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Baltimore pulls plug on Kanye West video events; events happen anyway
Update: It looks like West was able to prevail, to an extent: At about 9 p.m., Def Jam Records tweeted that a projection would take place on the Walters Art Museum, 45 minutes earlier than the originally scheduled time in what appeared to be an attempt to...Tags: Arts, Museums, Baltimore Museum of Art, Kanye West, Arts and Culture
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Ten objects that sum up Gary Vikan's life
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of occasional features on prominent local residents and the possessions they treasure. You can get a pretty good idea of someone's journey through life by looking at the objects with which he surrounds...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Religion and Belief, Sundance Film Festival, Arts and Culture
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Stanford University to preserve Walters Art Museum's digital manuscript collection
The Walters Art Museum, a trail-blazer in digitizing its collection and making it available online, has reached an agreement with Stanford University Libraries to give more than 100,000 high-res images of medieval manuscripts what is being called "a...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Arts and Culture
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At Walters' Richard Caton Woodville exhibit, a 20th painting discovered
For the past 158 years, art historians thought that the painter Richard Caton Woodville, the James Dean of his generation, had completed just 19 paintings before he died of a morphine overdose in 1855 at age 30. Now, we know that there were 20. Joy...
Tags: Arts, University of Maryland Medical School, Museums, Painting, Artists
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Six finalists announced for 2013 Sondheim Prize
Six finalists were announced Wednesday for the 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize — and the prestigious award is edging more toward alternate media than it ever has before. The candidates in the running to win the eighth annual award include two...
Tags: Artscape, Landover, Arts, Photography, Arts and Culture
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Financial Markets, Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museums
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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, Economy, Business and Finance, Washington, DC, Arts, 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, Museums, Arts and Culture
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