Baltimore Arts

Stepping down as director of the iconic "outsider art" museum she founded on Baltimore's Key Highway in 1995, Ms. Hoffberger considers its cultural impact, and her next artistic vision.

What superpowers are required to get a grieving mother through the ultimate test -- the violent loss of a child? The play ‘Black Super Hero Magic Mama’ explores why alter egos and comic-book character strength help. We get a preview.

Ballet requires big doses of discipline and stamina. Male dancers face even more as they train, like being ostracized for doing ‘a girl sport.’ ‘The Baltimore Ballet Boys’ also face challenges of growing up in underserved neighborhoods … we hear what -- and who -- helps them succeed.

A street artist reflects on his quasi-illegal contributions to Baltimore’s art scene.

Art communicates without words, and can do that across generations. We meet two artists who draw on their ancestors’ experiences--a child of Holocaust survivors, and an African-American born in West Baltimore--to create their art, on view in two exhibits now.

Amadou Kouyate, one third of the Trio Griot, will perform at An die Musik on Sunday, Feb. 27. He serves up a taste of his traditional music from Senegal and Mali.

Community, leadership, entrepreneurship … What’s art got to do with it? According to Randi Pupkin, executive director of ‘Art with a Heart’ it’s at the center of everything — from cultivating neighbor connections, inspiring children and instilling leadership in young adults.

What number can you place on love? For singer and performer Alex Palting, it's eight hundred seventy four. That’s how many letters went between her grandparents, one in the US, one in Manilla in the Philippines, at the start of their courtship. Her one-woman show tells their story.

A new collection and some old favorites from author Ann Patchett.

Happy or unhappy, all families have stories to tell. Two memoirs of growing up in extraordinary circumstances on this edition of The Weekly Reader.