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Fall Arts & Culture Experiences in Baltimore 

ALL THINGS ROUND: Galaxies,
Eyeballs & Karma

American Visionary Art Museum
October 7, 2011 - September 2, 2012
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The American Visionary Art Museum's 17th annual thematic mega-exhibition, ALL THINGS ROUND: Galaxies, Eyeballs & Karma, is a celebration and call to awareness of the circular and voluptuous nature of life. From the micro atomic spin of electrons encircling a nucleus to the macro orbit of planets rounding our sun, 'Round' delights in the curves, spirals, orbs, and bubbles of full-bodied beauty that playfully manifest throughout art and science.

Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein

Baltimore Museum of Art
October 30, 2011 – March 25, 2012
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Discover more than 350 prints by Canaletto, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, and other European and American artists who created images in series. The true vision of these artists is realized as each series is shown in its entirety. Also represented are two voices for a new generation of printmakers,Daniel Heyman and Andrew Raftery, who will speak at the BMA on Saturday, December 3.

Embroidered Treasures: Textiles from Central Asia

Baltimore Museum of Art
November 13, 2011 – May 13, 2012
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Approximately fourteen bold, colorful embroidered textiles from Central Asia are being presented for the first time at the BMA. These stunning late 19th- to early 20th-century textiles include wall hangings, covers, a wedding canopy, and saddle cover made in Uzbekistan and areas of Afghanistan. Primarily made of cotton with multicolored silk thread embroidery by young women and their female relatives, many of these textiles were used as part of their dowries and family treasures that were reluctantly parted with during periods of political and economic hardship.

Candida Höfer: Interior Worlds

Baltimore Museum of Art
November 16, 2011 – February 26, 2012
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Thirteen works by the acclaimed contemporary German photographer Candida Höfer are presented in this intimate exhibition. Known for her large-scale, intensely detailed images of museums and architecturalspaces, Höfer spent several days in Baltimore in 2010 creating spectacular photographs of The Walters Art Museum. 

The War Came By Train

B&O Railroad Museum
Through May 30, 2015
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The War Came By Train serves as the B&O Railroad Museum’s primary attraction for the five year commemoration of the War’s sesquicentennial. The National Landmark Roundhouse will exhibit the largest assemblage of Civil War railroad equipment in the World featuring locomotives and rail cars that served during the war, significant military and personal artifacts that will change annually to portray each year of the war (some artifacts have never before been on public display), and a narrated, round trip train ride to the original site of Camp Carroll, the largest Union encampment in Baltimore.