Walters Art Museum

The Journal of Roman Archaeology is hardly light reading.  The annual editions of this international academic publication weigh in at around a thousand pages each.

April 1, 2013

The college football bowl season is in full swing. None of the players is getting paid to play in the bowl games -- or any other game for that matter. Historian Taylor Branch says we should change that. Tom Hall talks with Branch about the Bowl Championship Series and the state of college sports.

The Walters Art Museum hopes to alter our understanding of Europe during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. On display are works by great artists like Rubens and Bronzino that portray Africans, and illustrate European conceptions of the continent at the time. Tom Hall takes a tour of the Walters exhibition, "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe."

More than 5,000 Marylanders got permits to carry guns last year; they had to show police they had a “good and substantial reason” to so.  That may be about to change – we’ll discuss the implications with a gun policy researcher.

Then – did you know there's a school to learn how to save the Bay? We talk with the coordinator of The Watershed Steward Academy in Anne Arundel County, which trains community leaders to help their neighborhoods save THEIR tributary.

And – J. Wynn Rousuck reviews Cockpit in Court's new production of Sunset Boulevard.

The rate of HIV infection in African American women in Baltimore is much higher than we thought.

Longtime Walters Art Museum director Gary Vikan is leaving after nearly two decades in the role. Tom Hall talks with him about his time curating the giant collection.

The story of one of the most pivotal battles of the Revolutionary War, and the Marylanders who sacrificed themselves so General Washington’s army could fight another day.

Tom Hall talks to Stanley Mazaroff about his book on Henry Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum, and Bernard Berenson, the scholar and dealer who helped ferret out copies in Walters’ collection and, by doing so, secure the Walters’ position as a great museum.