Museum of Modern Art

Lewis R. "Lew" Bush, Sun photographer

2013-01-14 14:55:45

Lewis R. "Lew" Bush, a photography director whose career at The Baltimore Sun spanned nearly two decades, died Friday of complications from dementia at his home in Palm Coast, Fla. He was 80. "Lew was skilled at his trade and knew cameras and film back...

Carolyn Rosenstein, reading specialist

2012-10-30 13:38:33

Carolyn Rosenstein, a retired McDonogh School reading specialist recalled as a nurturing faculty mentor who also served on the Women's Board of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, died of cancer Oct. 27 at her Pikesville home. She was 75. "She was a great gal,...

Gold medal in hand, Friends School senior heads to top art college

2012-04-12 09:34:00

Emilio Martinez's first exposure to art came early in life, when his parents took him to the Visionary Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art. "I think I was, like, an infant," said the Roland Park native. But his first exposure may have been even...

BMA's biannual Contemporary Print Fair returns this weekend

2012-04-26 06:02:00

At first glance, the Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair looks like a low-wattage shindig. To the casual observer, the occasional gallery visitor, names like Barbara Takenaga, Deborah Kass and Madeleine Keesing have little resonance. That's because few...

How have you been for the last 24 years — and where's my forty bucks?

2012-01-09 03:00:00

During the summer of 1988, I was the guy who spray-painted house numbers on the curb. I'd spent June working the graveyard shift at UPS. After two summers of toiling for minimum wage — when minimum wage paid less than vagrancy — UPS offered...

Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts for the musician

2011-11-25 20:59:00

Whether a pianist, guitarist or someone who enjoys listening to great sounds, these gifts for musicians will bring a happy note to the holidays. 1. The Otamatone Musical Instrument from Maywa Denki is an easy-to-play electronic musical instrument....

Review: Jay-Z and Kanye West, 'Watch the Throne'

2011-08-09 11:23:00

Jay-Z and Kanye West Watch the Throne Roc Nation Rating: 3 stars out of 4 Understanding royalty is always trickier than it seems. From a distance, we watch in awe of the stately presence and lavish lifestyle. But get close enough and we see the scars,...

On face value, Hahn-Bin delivers a new experience

2012-01-12 10:25:00

A tuxedo seems like the one sartorial item that Hahn-Bin might not wear when this 24-year-old violinist appears for the Candlelight Concert Society on Saturday, Jan. 14, at 8 p.m. in Howard Community College's Smith Theatre. This hotshot performer...

Handcrafted, everyday beauty from Africa on display

2011-10-16 18:43:21

Beauty can be found even in the utilitarian. A recently opened exhibit of African art at the Baltimore Museum of Art makes that point powerfully, with a varied array of elaborately handcrafted personal objects from across the continent — from...

Jaime Arbona

2011-10-31 12:42:00

Jaime Arbona, former customs agent for the ports of entry to Baltimore, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Oct. 20 at his Cedarcroft home. He was 88. Born in Utuado, Puerto Rico, where he attended the University of Puerto Rico, he served in the...

Herman Maril: Baltimore artist painted what he saw

2009-06-28 00:00:00

Herman Maril had two worlds, and each provided him what something the other lacked. The artist, who was born in Baltimore in 1908 and died here in 1986, spent his life painting some of the grittier aspects of the city. Invariably, his astute and...

A Colorful Life

2006-04-02 00:00:00

When Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....

A visitor at the "Rain Room" at MOMA ( The Museum of Modern Art ) May 20, 2013. MoMA PS1 is presenting as part of a major component of EXPO 1: New York, a exhibit entitled Rain Room (2012), which will be presented at The Museum of Modern Art, from May 12 through July 28, 2013.

2013-05-21 00:00:00

People stand in the new Rain Room installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York May 17, 2013. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, which allows them to remain dry.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

Visitors gather in the new 'Rain Room' installation at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan in New York City. The 5,000 square-foot installation creates a field of falling water that stops in the area where people walk through, allowing them to remain dry.

2013-05-15 00:00:00