Commentary: Hard Science, Public Health at Root of American Visionary Art Museum Water Exhibit

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I recently visited the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, located at the foot of Federal Hill at 800 Key Highway. The affable and hard-working director, Rebecca Hoffberger, was kind enough to give me a tour of this most unusual museum, composed of three former warehouses that have been masterfully transformed architecturally and artistically.

I was drawn there by the opportunity to view the current exhibit entitled Holy H2O, which will be closing shortly. This year-long exhibit, which features fascinating aspects - from the scientific to the mystical - of this simple, common, everyday substance, will end its well-received run Sept. 4.

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Commentary: Hard Science, Public Health at Root of American Visionary Art Museum Water Exhibit

The main building houses a photographic portrait of twinkle- eyed, 96-year-old Abel Wolman, wearing his signature bow tie, the man to whom this exhibit is dedicated. Wo...

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