The Importance of Access: The Academy Art Museum Eliminates Admissions Fee
It seems like a relatively minor policy decision for the Academy Art Museum to drop its three-dollar admissions charge, but it's actually a big deal. While the common-sense approach of asking a visitor's fee to enjoy the Museum was reasonable, what needed to be calculated was the significant turn-off it turned out to be for first-time goers. While the revenue from this fee was modest, the asking for money to come into the Museum spoke volumes about the sometimes hidden barriers to building inclusion and diversity. With free admissions, the AAM could immediately reach an entirely new ... [Continue Story]
Arts Highlights
Spy Arts Diary: Rising Stars and a Long-Dead Painter We Never Knew by Steve Parks
The matinee performance is billed as a “Stars of the Next Generation” concert. But these three young musicians are already stars of their own ... [Continue Story]
- Looking at the Masters: Marc Chagall Part II
- Spy Art Review: Mary Cassatt and Many Male Artists by Steve Parks
- Spy Music Notes: A Chat with AAM/WHCP Headliner Josh Christina
- And the Winner Is: Elizabeth Song wins MSO Concerto Competition
- Temple B’nai Israel Presents Rachel Franklin and the Annapolis Opera
- Looking at the Masters: Marc Chagall
- A Grammy Nomination for MSO’s Repper and His Youth Orchestra by Steve Parks
- Looking at the Masters: Yayoi Kusama
- Spy Arts Diary: Mary Cassatt, Last Chance, and a Brit Invasion, by Steve Parks
- Spy Art Review: Abstracts, Climate Nomads and More, by Steve Parks
- Mid-Shore Arts: Troika at Twenty-Five by Val Cavalheri
- Art For Everyone’s Sake: A Chat with Kayti Didriksen
Looking at the Masters with Beverly Smith
Looking at the Masters: Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) was one of the most important artists of the German Romanticism movement at the beginning of the 19th Century. He ... [Continue Story]
- Looking at the Masters: Marc Chagall
- Looking at the Masters: Marc Chagall
- Looking at the Masters: Franz Marc
- Looking at the Masters: Conrad von Soest
- Looking at the Masters: Alfred Sisley
- Looking at the Masters: Florine Stettheimer
- Looking at the Masters: Florine Stettheimer
- Looking at the Masters: Katharina Cibulka
- Looking at the Masters: Roger Fenton
- Looking at the Masters: Thomas Cole
Design with Jenn Martella
My first introduction to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum was during a visit to my sister over the July 4th weekend in 2003. We joined the throng ... [Continue Story]
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Visit to Wings and Whitetail Farm
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Classic Cape Cod Cottage in Chestertown
- Design with Jenn Martella: 105 Cannon St. After the Work is Done
- Design with Jenn Martella: A Study in Scarlet
- Design with Jenn Martella: Modern Meets Rancher
- Design with Jenn Martella: Haven on High Street
Weather Report with Cece Storm
The Spy Weather Report with Cecile Storm
The Spy Weather Report forecast and words for September 30 to October 1 “Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all ... [Continue Story]
Delmarva Review
Delmarva Review: Learning to Swim by Ellen Sazzman
Author’s Note: “To learn about myself, I study my parents, both the stories they told of their childhoods and the stories I witnessed. I was a player ... [Continue Story]
- Delmarva Review: Butchery by Josh Trapani
- Delmarva Review: I Want to Order a Man from the Sweets Catalog, by Fran Abrams
- Delmarva Review: Authors by King Grossman
- Delmarva Review: Goodbye Mr. Kamali by Sepideh Zamani
- Delmarva Review: Now Only in Part by Marda Messick
- Delmarva Review: Lemon Ginger Tea by Robin Gow
- Delmarva Review: Rescue by Jessica Claire Haney
- Delmarva Review: The Entropy of Little Things by Martina Kado
- Delmarva Review: A Room Too Small for Sunsets by Sayan Aich Bhowmik
- Delmarva Review: Elm Trees by Michael Carrino
Chesapeake Lens
Chesapeake Lens: Bohemia Sunrise by David Sites
Even on a cold, still winter morning, we remember happy, warm days on the water. “Bohemia Sunrise” ... [Continue Story]
Arts Notes
The Changing Chesapeake set to open at CBMM on March 1
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s exhibition, The Changing Chesapeake, will open to the public on Wednesday, March 1 in the Steamboat Building ... [Continue Story]
- The Mainstay Celebrates Mardi Gras with James Day and the Fish Fry
- Authors & Oysters: Dr. Richard Gillin
- Grand Re-Opening of RiverArts Popular Gift Shop
- The Artists’ Gallery Celebrates First Friday with Stephen Walker
- WAF Presents Check to Academy Art Museum
- Church Hill Theatre Announces Cast for Sense and Sensibility
- United Way Elects New Board Members
- Upcoming Events at the Avalon Theatre
- Allegro Academy’s Singing Programs for Youth and Adults
- Mid-Atlantic Symphony Selects Winners of its Annual Elizabeth Loker Concerto Competition