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ARTSY BALTIMORE
BALTIMORE HAS A STRONG CULTURAL IDENTITY ALL ITS OWN backed by a population that supports both established arts organizations and newcomers.
For the visual arts, the anchor institutions are the Baltimore Museum of Art and The Walters Art Museum, both of which offer free admission.
Located near the Homewood Campus of the Johns Hopkins University,
the Baltimore Museum of Art has
a collection of 95,000 works of art
— including the largest holding of works by Henri Matisse in the world. Make reservations at Gertrude’s — a long-time gay-owned business and community favorite located inside the museum — for lunch, dinner or brunch.
The Walters Art Museum in Mount
Vernon is a treasure- trove of art spanning five millennia. The
Walters is one of only a few museums in the world to present such a
panoramic survey. The thousands of treasures range from mummies
to arms and armor, from old master paintings to
art nouveau jewelry.
Learn about the cultural legacy African Americans

AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM
at institutions such
as the Reginald F.
Lewis Museum of
Maryland African
American History
& Culture, National
Great Blacks In
Wax Museum and
Frederick Douglass-
Isaac Myers Maritime
Park Museum. Throughout
2018, Baltimore is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth
of Maryland native and leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Located in Federal Hill, the American Visionary Art Museum is America’s national museum and education center for intuitive, self-taught artistry. Exhibits feature works
by self-taught artists from around the world.
Theater buffs can take in national touring productions of recent Broadway shows at the legendary Hippodrome Theatre, in the Bromo Arts & Entertainment District. Just around the corner is the Everyman Theater, a professional, actor-based theater that produces its own schedule of engaging plays. Baltimore Center Stage, located in Mount Vernon, is
the city’s premier regional theater, electrifying audiences since 1963.
Iron Crow Theatre, at Mount Vernon’s Baltimore Theatre Project, bills itself as the city’s “only queer theater.” Other notable theater companies include Single Carrot Theatre in Remington and the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, which performs in a refurbished bank building downtown.
Baltimore’s classical music scene
is dominated by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, which performs at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall,
and the Peabody Institute in Mount Vernon, which presents its concerts free of charge.
The newly rehabbed 102-year-old Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Parkway Theatre in Station North is a great place to take in independent films
year-round. It’s also home to the Maryland Film Festival, which
takes place each May.
Contemporary music venues include Ram’s Head Live, located in the Power Plant Live! complex, close to the
Inner Harbor hotels and attractions, and outdoor venue Pier Six Pavilion, just steps away from the National Aquarium. Locals look for new and emerging performers at such venues as Motor House, The Windup Space and Metro Gallery in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
John Waters: Indecent Exposure
Oct. 7, 2018 – Jan. 6, 2019
This retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art will examine Waters’ influential career, with a focus on photographs, sculpture, soundworks and video made since the early 1990s. Among the highlights of the exhibition are “Kiddie Flamingos,” a 2014 video work
in which children read a G-rated version of
“Pink Flamingos” (Waters’ notorious 1972 celebration of all things outsider and extreme); a photographic installation in which Waters explores the auras and absurdities of famous films, their directors and actors; and a suite of photographs and sculpture that propose humor as a way to humanize dark moments in history from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11.
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