George Eastman News

The Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) present the Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2013 Finalists. On view at the Walters today, June 29-August 11, 2013, the exhibition showcases artwork by the finalists for the annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, a $25,000 fellowship that is given each year to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region. M&T Bank has partnered with BOPA to establish the M&T Bank Sondheim Finalists' Awards, which provide a $2,500 honorarium for each of the remaining finalists not selected for the fellowship.

The Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts (BOPA) present the Sondheim Artscape Prize: 2013 Finalists. On view at the Walters June 29–August 11, 2013, the exhibition showcases artwork by the finalists for the annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, a $25,000 fellowship that is given each year to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region. M&T Bank has partnered with BOPA to establish the M&T Bank Sondheim Finalists' Awards, which provide a $2,500 honorarium for each of the remaining finalists not selected for the fellowship.

Through a series of ambitious public photographic art installations, the enterprising Brooklyn-based cooperative United Photo Industries works to champion new directions in photography and cultivate ties within an ever-expanding, globe-trotting community of photographers. In partnership with Photo District News (PDN), Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Flash Forward Festival, United Photo Industries is pleased to announce the 2013 edition of one of its signature initiatives, THE FENCE, the 1,000 foot-long outdoor photographic installation whose inaugural edition drew over one million visitors during its 10-week run at Brooklyn Bridge Park last year.

Through a series of ambitious public photographic art installations, the enterprising Brooklyn-based cooperative United Photo Industries works to champion new directions in photography and cultivate ties within an ever-expanding, globe-trotting community of photographers. In partnership with Photo District News (PDN), Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Flash Forward Festival, United Photo Industries is pleased to announce the 2013 edition of one of its signature initiatives, THE FENCE, the 1,000 foot-long outdoor photographic installation whose inaugural edition drew over one million visitors during its 10-week run at Brooklyn Bridge Park last year.

Through a series of ambitious public photographic art installations, the enterprising Brooklyn-based cooperative United Photo Industries works to champion new directions in photography and cultivate ties within an ever-expanding, globe-trotting community of photographers. In partnership with Photo District News (PDN), Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Flash Forward Festival, United Photo Industries is pleased to announce the 2013 edition of one of its signature initiatives, THE FENCE, the 1,000 foot-long outdoor photographic installation whose inaugural edition drew over one million visitors during its 10-week run at Brooklyn Bridge Park last year.

Today, we spotlight 'Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America' currently on exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Shizuo Z. Kuwahara conducts Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, April 6 at 11 a.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. This fairytale favorite will be illuminated through performances by beloved narrator Rheda Becker and Bob Brown Puppets. Children age five and up are welcome to attend. Please see below for complete program details.

Stefan Kudelski, inventor of the first portable professional recorder, the renowned 'Nagra', passed away 26 January in Switzerland. Kudelski, 84, was the founder of the Kudelski Group.

Stefan Kudelski, inventor of the first portable professional recorder, the renowned 'Nagra', passed away 26 January in Switzerland. Kudelski, 84, was the founder of the Kudelski Group.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today the lineup for the upcoming 13th edition of FILM COMMENT SELECTS (February 18-28), Film Comment magazine's essential and eclectic film festival.

Andrea Meislin Gallery has announced Andy Freeberg's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Guardians will be on view today, January 24th through March 2nd, 2013, with the opening reception tonight, January 24th, from 6 - 8pm.

ClampArt has announced the opening of 'Amy Stein & Stacy Arezou Mehrfar: Tall Poppy Syndrome.' The exhibition is accompanied by the artists' monograph of the same title from Decode Books (Hardcover, 96 pp., 9.8 x 7.9 inches, $60).

After the isolated beginnings of a market in the early 20th century, photography emerged as a respected and collectible medium in the 1970s--driven by the viability of commercial photography galleries, increasing auction sales, and the establishment or promotion of autonomous curatorial departments in museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago (where photography became a separate department in 1974). Longtime Art Institute supporter Robert A. Taub's wide-ranging collection charts photography's changing and innovative role as a market force in the 1970s and 1980s. When Collecting Was New: Photographs from the Robert A. Taub Collection, on view at the Art Institute through May 12, 2013 in Galleries 1-4, presents over 100 works from Mr. Taub's collection and is complemented by loans from private collectors and works from the museum's permanent collection. This fresh presentation of classic and overlooked material includes a wall with no fewer than seven different prints of Dorothea Lange's iconic Migrant Mother (1936); a gridlike, historically accurate installation of Garry Winogrand's masterpiece portfolio, Women Are Beautiful (1974); and never-before-seen photographs by Joel Sternfeld taken in the later 1970s at the Ford Motor Company.

Andrea Meislin Gallery has announced Andy Freeberg's first solo exhibition at the gallery. Guardians will be on view January 24th through March 2nd, 2013, with the opening reception on Thursday, January 24th, from 6 - 8pm.

Oscar Season is in full swing; the big, end-of-year releases are hitting theaters and nominations voting began Monday. From now until the awards ceremony on February 24, the film world is abuzz with Oscar predictions. The Music Box Theatre takes this opportunity to take a look at some past award winners and see how this year's crop stacks up! Oscar-Winning Filmsmatinee series features a roster of movies that have racked up at least three Academy Awards apiece. Oscar-Winning Films show weekends, December 29, 2012-February 24, 2013, 11:30 a.m. at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago. Tickets are $7.25 at the box office.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) and 104 students from the Howard County Gifted and Talented Orchestra will play Side-by Side in a concert led by Maestro Shizuo Kuwahara on February 20, 2013 at 7:30 pm at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. This new partnership will commence in a special concert featuring works by Elgar, John Adams and Mahler. Additionally, young pianist Alisa Hwang winner of the Howard County Concerto Competition, will perform the first movement from Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto. Please see below for complete program details.

The First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival will make its debut in downtown Rochester's culturally-rich East End on September 20-23, 2012.

Tenor Robert Swensen and pianist Russell Miller, faculty members at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, will perform Franz Schubert's final and tragic song cycle, Winterreise (Winter Journey), at the Morgan Library & Museum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9. The recital will include projections of winter photographs from the collections of The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, chosen to express and heighten the mood of each of the 24 songs.

Magic and movies are popular art forms based on make-believe. Magicians were once the world's most popular entertainers-but once cinema supplanted them, magicians quickly embraced the moving image, using it to create astonishing new illusions.