It was the summer of 1913 and the vegetables William Oktavec positioned outside his grocery store on North Collington Avenue were wilting in the sun. Trained as a butcher, but an artist at heart, the ...

An east Baltimore tradition that dates back a century is getting a fresh coat of paint.This summer, painted screens are again going up across Highlandtown, but these screens are getting a bit of an ...

For close to 20 minutes you couldn’t distract Isabella and Juliana Baikauskas as they sat silently, laser-focused on perfecting their painted screens at the B&O Railroad Museum. With each brush stroke ...

REHOBOTH BEACH — Painted screens are an authentic urban folk art created in Baltimore row house neighborhoods in 1913. Painted door screens provided an unobstructed view of the street to the row house ...

For some 200 years, Korean kings broadcast their heavenly mandate by sitting before a painted screen showing five mountains flanked by a red sun and a white moon. But King Jeongjo, who reigned from ...

Baltimore is known for its row houses — modest brick buildings lining sidewalks so narrow, you can see right through the front windows into people’s homes. To add privacy, window screens were ...

FANCY home projection systems are a great way to watch a movie, but unless you’ve got a screen to show your flicks on, you probably aren’t getting very far. And while you could go for the usual ...

A painted four-panel folding screen that stands 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide is a touchstone for “Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500-1800,” a gorgeous new installation ...

In general, we associate a variety of activities in our lives with seasons. In the spring, it is usually housecleaning. In summer, vacations are often planned. During my recent cleaning, I found ...

Noosheen Hashemi knew as soon as she saw it that the Japanese screen would be perfect for her new Silicon Valley home. "I wanted to imagine what Frank Lloyd Wright might be doing if he was still alive ...