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Belly up to the bar at BMI and get schooled in art history at BMA!

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George and Babe Ruth bartending at one of the family’s saloons, located at 38 South Eutaw Street. Image courtesy of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum. .jpg ()
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2. Saloon on the corner of Bank and Durham Streets, ca. 1914. Image courtesy of the Enoch Pratt Library Special Collections.jpeg ()
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Riviera and workshop_Apollo_and_Attendants_Flaying_Marsyas_MIA.jpg (Minneapolis Institute of Art/Minneapolis Institute of Art / Minneapolis Institute of Art)
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Marie Lemoine - Youth in an Embroidered Vest (Douglas J. Eng)
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Merian_Convolvulus_and_Metamorphosis_CMA.jpg (David Brichford/Cleveland Museum of Art / Cleveland Museum of Art)

Art and history lovers get ready: a new show at Baltimore Museum of Industry dives into the late-nineteenth-early- twentieth century role of the neighborhood corner bar. And the Baltimore Museum of Art turns ideas about male-dominated artmaking on their head in 'Making Her Mark.’

Links: 'The Neighborhood Corner Bar' at BMI, 'Making Her Mark' at BMA, BMI neighborhood bar walking tour, Corner Bar author event, Baltimore Heritage 5-minute history of Baltimore neighborhood bars, BMA Art After Hours, Art and Object article about Making Her Mark.

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