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Apocalypse now? Blame the Pilgrims, not the Mayans
Tony Aveni blames it on the Pilgrims.
If it hadn't been for our prim and quarrelsome ancestors, their descendants might not now be making forecasts that the world will end in 313 days based on a blatant misreading of the Mayan calendar, according to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Mayflower Voyage (1620), Satellite and Cable Service, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief
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Walters joins crowdsourcing trend with 'Public Property'
It's entirely possible that one of the august and influential guest curators for "Public Property," the summer exhibit opening Sunday at the Walters Art Museum, was none other than your plumber. Ditto for your postal carrier and your daughter's softball...Tags: Arts and Culture, Artists, Charity, Elections, Sculpture
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Walters Art Museum receives $265,000 grant to help digitize manuscripts
Baltimore's Walters Art Museum has received a $265,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to put toward digitizing its collection of medieval manuscripts and making it available, via computer, to the general public.
The three-year project,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Artists, Arts, Museums
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Walters Art Museum director Gary Vikan to step down
Gary Vikan, who has been a dynamic force at the helm of the Walters Art Museum for 18 years, will leave the post of director in June 2013, or when his successor is in place.
"I really made the decision in November 2008, when I was 62," Vikan said, "but...Tags: Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Baltimore Museum of Art, Finance, Johns Hopkins University
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Walters receives large bequest of Russian works
A bequest from Washington, D.C. arts patron Jean Montgomery Riddell, who died last year at the age of 100, has enriched the holdings of the Walters Art Museum with more than 260 objects of enameled Russian silver from the 17th through early 20th...Tags: Arts and Culture, Easter, Washington, DC, Arts, Saint Petersberg (Russia)
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Walters Art Museum opens access to 10,000 images
More than 10,000 items in the Walters Art Museum — about a third of the total collection — can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.
The museum's collection is "basically public domain," said Dylan...Tags: Arts and Culture, File Sharing, Mass Media, Social Media, Facebook
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Walters researchers decode the secrets of the Archimedes Palimpsest
Twelve years ago, Walters Art Museum curator Will Noel opened a parcel and discovered what he calls "Archimedes' brain in a box."
Thus began a search for buried treasure — in this case, the lost writings of Archimedes of Syracuse, a famed Greek...Tags: File Sharing, Arts and Culture, Judges, Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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Family forges history at Baltimore ironworks shop
Upon entering the G. Krug & Son blacksmith shop, I was handed a pair of safety goggles and immediately knew I was in for a treat.
All around me were the goings-on of a bygone era. Peter Krug, owner of the Baltimore workshop that has been in business...Tags: Education, Johns Hopkins University, Sports, Renovation, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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The Interview: Robin Budish, community organizer for Baltimore Streetcar Campaign
Robin Budish spends her days rallying support for an idea she says will make downtown Baltimore more livable — building a streetcar line along Charles Street.
Budish was hired last fall as community organizer for the Baltimore Streetcar Campaign, a...Tags: Arts and Culture, Overlea, Tampa, Baltimore Museum of Art, Elections
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Walters donates artwork images to Wikipedia
The Walters Art Museum is donating more than 19,000 images of artworks from its collection to the organization running Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created and edited by users. The images will be available for Wikipedia articles in any...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Social Media, Arts, Museums
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Jane Meyerhoff's floral collection given to the Walters
Walters Museum: Jane Meyerhoff's floral still lifes collection will be donated to the Walters Art Museum by philanthropist Robert Meyerhoff. Jane Meyerhoff loved flowers, but she was allergic to their fragrance and couldn't have them in the house. In...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Andy Warhol, Baltimore Museum of Art, Artists, Charity
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Patricia Modell, actress and philanthropist, dies at 80
Patricia Modell, a successful TV and film actress in the 1950s and '60s who became a well-known philanthropist in Baltimore with her husband, former Ravens owner Arthur Modell, died Wednesday at the age of 80.
Mrs. Modell was admitted two weeks ago to...Tags: Arts and Culture, Joan Crawford, Baltimore Museum of Art, New York City, Charity
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