Arts

Fourteen bands will perform progressive bluegrass, American roots and improvisational music on the beach at the Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival. Other things to do include Al Green at Live! Casino, a queer dance troupe premiering its new work and the Naptowon Philharmonic.

In Ellicott City, the placement of a peach sculpture has sparked controversy, while a nearby eggplant sculpture was accepted by the Howard County Historic Preservation Commission.

More than 4,000 applications were submitted for a DMV-focused arts gallery, a figure its curator attributes to the lack of arts spaces not only for local artists but for women.

"The Glow" is an annual backyard circus that draw performers from Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia to test-run their wildest acts.

Wednesday's kickoff of the Anne Arundel County Fair is among the things to do in Annapolis for the week ending Wednesday, Sept. 9.

Carmelo Anthony, soon-to-be basketball Hall of Famer, will be featured in a free “House of Melo” exhibit at Enoch Pratt Free Library’s Central location in Baltimore.

Amy Sherald’s “American Sublime” needed a new home after the artist pulled the exhibit from the National Portrait Gallery. Enter the Baltimore Museum of Art.

The city’s first public park opened in 2004 and the most recent at the Inner Harbor welcomed skaters starting in 2021. But since then, skaters worry the momentum for more locations may have stalled.

You can still find tickets to the opening weekend of the Maryland Renaissance Festival, but here’s a guide no matter when you go. It’s one of seven great things to do in Greater Annapolis in the coming week.

Highwire Improv manages over 100 ensembles that can be hired for improv events at companies and organizations, with a new space in in Highlandtown.

Baltimore contemporary jewelry maker Betty Cooke was an icon of minimalist art design.

Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”

A senior living community in Mount Washington has their own "resident grandchild" — a Peabody musician-in-residence who provides weekly concerts.

Ten years after it kicked off a wave of outdoor dining in Annapolis, Dinner Under the Stars is going strong. It’s one of seven great things you could do in the coming week.

After painter Amy Sherald pulled her National Portrait Gallery exhibit, the MICA alum’s work — "Trans Forming Liberty’ — is on the cover of the New Yorker.

Tonya Miller Hall, senior advisor of arts and culture for Baltimore, is no longer working for Mayor Brandon Scott’s office, which established a new arts office in April.

The 80th Annapolis Rotary Crab Feast cracks open Friday, one of seven great things you can do in the coming week.

Twelve poets vied last week for Charm City Slam's champion title, a highly regarded position in Baltimore's "mecca" of a slam poetry scene.

Robyn Murphy, hired in November as the interim CEO of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, is now the nonprofit organization’s chief executive.

A recent find at the long-closed Bertha's Mussels got The Banner wondering: Have you come across a rare treasure in an old building?