ENTERTAINMENT
By Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun | May 7, 2013
An exhibit at the Johns Hopkins Evergreen House that was thrown into doubt this week is back on, but without two artworks at the crux of a dispute between the artist and the curator. The two large pieces in question — one depicting a cross, the other a mosaic of the word "Jew" — were offered as part of an outdoor exhibit by Fells Point artist Loring Cornish called "In Each Other's Shoes," to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Mary Carole McCauley, The Baltimore Sun | May 3, 2013
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 Heyrman, deputy director of development for the Walters Art Museum, recently learned about what very well may be first oil painting that the artist ever created. It's an 1844 portrait of a childhood friend, the surgeon and investigator Stedman R. Tilghman.
NEWS
By Mike Giuliano | May 1, 2013
Cars are a defining aspect of the American landscape in John Petro's exhibit "Parked Outside the Door" at the Bernice Kish Gallery at Slayton House. Although people are rarely seen in these color photographs, cars appear in almost every shot. A typical photo features a single car parked near a single house, as if to emphasize that ours is a mobile culture. Indeed, there's even a shot depicting a red truck parked next to a mobile home in Cloverlick, W.Va. Ironically, though, Petro often takes photos of junked old cars that aren't going anywhere.
NEWS
By Mike Giuliano | April 19, 2013
If there were a dress code for visitors to the current exhibit in Howard Community College's Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, it would stipulate that people must wear blue jeans when going to see Julie van Hemert's "Peopled Jeans. " That's because the artist uses blue jean material for her wall-hanging fabric art. Van Hemert does not significantly alter or transform this material. Instead, she typically clusters a few pants legs together in order to suggest that several close friends are, er, hanging out together.
NEWS
April 18, 2013
Art exhibit The Chesapeake Wood Turners exhibit, sponsored by Montpelier Mansion, is on view through Tuesday, April 30, at the National Wildlife Visitor Center, 10901 Scarlet Tanager Loop, Laurel. Exhibit hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Free admission. Information: 301-377-7817. Bluegrass music Savage Bluegrass plays at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, at Sam and Elsie's Bar and Restaurant in Laurel. No cover charge. Information: 301-317-7796. Saturday night movies Monthly movie screenings designed for family viewing will be shown at 6 p.m. at the North Laurel Community Center, 9411 Whiskey Bottom Road.