Excursions from the Square

06/02/2026

05/06/2026

04/30/2026

Wow!

04/18/2026

Join our trip to ABT at the Metropolitan Opera House https://conta.cc/4tL2O5e

American Ballet Theatre returns to the Metropolitan Opera House stage with four full-length ballets. Don't miss this extraordinary season full of magical per...

11/02/2025

So excited! Please join us this Thursday, November 6! https://conta.cc/4nnW9ut

Today’s the day—Amy Sherald: American Sublime is now open at the BMA!

Sherald put it best when she said, “Baltimore has always been part of my DNA as an artist. Every brushstroke carries a little of its history, its energy, its people, and my time there. To bring this exhibition here is to return that love.”

🎉 Check out our Story for highlights from Community Day, happening today, November 2 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. This event is free for all visitors, but to see the exhibition, you must have a timed-entry ticket.

💜 Plan your visit to American Sublime at artbma.org/amysherald.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

📷 Installation view of Amy Sherald: American Sublime. Photo by Margaret Rorison

🖼️ Amy Sherald. Ecclesia (The Meeting of Inheritance and Horizons). 2024. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. © Amy Sherald

08/20/2025

Marlboro Music Festival Tour
August 13-16, 2026
Call for more Information!
215 732 8487

It’s strangely quiet today on our Vermont hilltop, as we've bid a fond adieu to our 75 resident artists and their families. Our hearts are full of music, community, and memories of this most beautiful summer season.

Happily, the Marlboro campus vibrates with creative energy all year round. Our artist residency program for emerging chamber music ensembles will continue with a series of musical retreats and free, on-campus community concerts. Save the date for our first 2025-26 residency performance, with the Phaidros String Quartet, on Sunday, November 9 at 2 pm in Ragle Hall.

Throughout the fall, we are pleased to be welcoming people and programs that appreciate the natural beauty of the campus and whose focus is primarily the arts and education. Watch this space for more exciting news from the Marlboro campus in the months ahead.

📷: Photo by Matt Genders.

07/07/2025

You can still join us on Wednesday to see SYLVIA at Lincoln Center https://conta.cc/4kYsG9M

04/11/2025

Looking forward to seeing this Exhibit https://conta.cc/4jvvDhb

Caspar David Friedrich’s “The Stages of Life” reflects on the passage of time through carefully composed symbolism. ⛵ 🌊

Notice the mirrored curves of the coastline, the stillness of the water, and the perfectly straight horizon—all carefully composed to frame the human story unfolding on shore. Offshore, the boats symbolize life's phases, though intriguingly, the five figures don't directly correspond to the six vessels.

These figures are often interpreted as Friedrich himself alongside his family: his nephew Karl Heinrich, his children Gustav and Agnes, and either his wife, Caroline, or his eldest daughter, Emma. The young man and woman gesture towards the children at the center, hinting at a theme of generational continuity. Beyond their identities, Friedrich evokes the timeless tension between "home" and "away," drawing the eye from land to sea in an endless cycle of departure and return.

This work is on view in the exhibition "Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature," through May 11.

🎨 Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774-1840). The Stages of Life, ca. 1834. Oil on canvas. Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig.

06/17/2024

Join our group on Saturday, June 29, to see WOOLF WORKS at Lincoln Center. https://conta.cc/3XgGtQ4

01/06/2023

The Paris museum has been struggling for years against over-attendance