Arts

Whether you want to check out an ice festival or a record bazaar to add to that vinyl collection, we’ve got you covered this weekend.

Officials canceled the parade because of the freezing temperatures expected to blast the Baltimore area.

“The heavy lift of management is off the plate of this organization so we can do what we do best: focus on the art,” the interim CEO said.

In a post on social media, festival organizers cited a lack of resources as their reason for canceling the festival this year.

Whether you want to attend Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations at a Baltimore museum, celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday with some puzzles or enjoy some honky-tonk, we’ve got you covered.

A hip-hop superstar beef was cranked up another notch Wednesday when Drake sued Universal Music Group for defamation over rival Kendrick Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”

Seven things to do in Baltimore County, from a teenage rock concert to an adult ’80s dance party

Karen Huger, who calls herself the “Grand Dame of Potomac,” has entered a recovery program after her DUI conviction last month

A 182-year-old courthouse in Ellicott City made of local granite is being turned into an arts, cultural and history center. Howard County just secured $400,000 in state funds for the project, which is underway.

The art exhibitions that stood out this year, like Joyce J. Scott’s retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art, were groundbreaking and culturally relevant, BmoreArt writes.

Jefferson Holland is the new Annapolis poet laureate. And, if he’s better known as a singer and songwriter focused on Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay, that’s because to him there’s not much difference.

The Ford Gallery of Indian, Nepalese, and Tibetan Art is named for the collector and his wife, Berthe.

Her piece, which shows Ray Lewis in the throes of his signature pregame squirrel dance and aims to convey the joy that sports can bring a community, reached Lewis himself.

From a Pressing Strings homecoming to a Naptown half marathon, here are seven things to do this week in Annapolis.

Kate Burgin, who previously served in a leadership role at the Walters Art Museum, will succeed Julia Marciari-Alexander as the museum’s CEO and executive director. She’ll start in late January 2025.

Midnight Madness is back with three nights of late shopping in downtown Annapolis this month. It’s one of seven great things to do in the coming week.

Baltimore County recently unveiled its first commissioned public art project: a memorial at Lake Roland to commemorate county residents who died due to COVID-19.

With apologies to the Fab Four, here is a lyrical look at WTMD’s Beatles Day on Thursday. You could also check out the return of Lights on the Bay this week, take in a string quartet or watch two big shows at Maryland Hall.

Graham’s departure is “effective immediately,” BOPA interim Chair and CEO Robyn Murphy said at the close of a special meeting Wednesday. Murphy was temporarily appointed to both roles while the board searches for new leadership.

When bad news hits the world of classical music, musicians turn to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboe player, Katherine Needleman, for details.