Lydia Woolever

By Lydia Woolever | October 12, 2026, 02:10 pm Amy Sherald is a tough act to follow. Throughout a 22-week run at the Baltimore Museum of Art earlier this year, 80,000 people stood before the canvases of Sherald's exhibition, American Sublime , marking the... See more

Arts & Culture SEVENTY YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER, the lights dimmed and the first movie flickered onto the screen at the Bengies Drive-In Theatre in Middle River. It was early June 1956, about two decades after the first such outdoor cinema opened in near... See more

Arts & Culture Celebrated Summer Records Has Been Ready for People to Go Analog for 20 Years For two decades, owner Tony Pence was told the future of music would be online, with the final blow drawn by Gen Z. But those 14-to-29 year-olds are now the o... See more

Last week, as The Late Show officially wrapped its iconic run on CBS, we couldn’t help but think about Future Islands. How had it already been 12 years since the Baltimore indie rock band’s gliding, growling performance of “Seasons (Waiting On You)” on th... See more

Every three years, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery hosts the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, considered one of the most prestigious of its kind in the United States. Named after longtime docent Virginia Outwin Boochever, whose endowment... See more