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Bau
Bau, born Rufino Almeida in 1962 in Mindelo, Cape Verde, is a morna multi-instrumentalist who played cavaquinho in Cesária Évora's orchestra and led it from 1996 to 1999.
Bauhaus
Bauhaus: German school of art, architecture and design founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in April 1919, continued in Dessau and Berlin, closed by Nazi pressure in 1933; famed for art-and-technology modernism.
Bauhaus (band)
Bauhaus: English post-punk band formed in Northampton in 1978 (Murphy, Ash, David J, Haskins), also known as Bauhaus 1919, whose 1979 single "Bela Lugosi's Dead" launched gothic rock.
Bauhaus metal workshop
The Bauhaus metal workshop was the metalworking department of the German Bauhaus school from 1919 to 1929, producing lighting fixtures and tableware under László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt.
Bauhaus photography
Bauhaus photography is the photographic work and teaching of the German Bauhaus art school, active 1919 to 1933, driven above all by László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy.
Bauhaus typography
Bauhaus typography is the geometric, functionalist lettering and page layout produced at the German Bauhaus school between 1919 and 1933, known for sans-serif type, lowercase setting, and asymmetric layouts.
Baul (বাউল)
Baul (বাউল) are mystic minstrels of rural Bangladesh and West Bengal, a syncretic devotional sect blending Vaishnava, Buddhist Sahajiya, and Sufi elements, centered on the body as God's seat, with Lalon Shah (1774–1890) as central figure and UNESCO-listed Baul songs.
Baule art
Baule art (Baoulé art) is the wood-carving tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, including spirit-spouse figures, mblo and Goli masks, and carved doors.
Baule figure sculpture
Baule figure sculpture is the carved wooden human figure tradition of the Baule people of central Côte d'Ivoire, made since the 1700s to house spirit spouses and nature spirits for diviners.
Baumgartner's Bombay
Baumgartner's Bombay is a 1988 novel by Indian writer Anita Desai, following Hugo Baumgartner, a German Jew who flees to India and is interned during World War II.
Baumkuchen
Baumkuchen (バウムクーヘン), German "tree cake," is a layered spit-roasted cake with tree-ring cross-section. Introduced to Japan by WWI POW Karl Juchheim in 1919, it symbolizes longevity there; Salzwedel Baumkuchen holds an EU PGI.
Bava Lakshmanan
Bava Lakshmanan (பாவா லட்சுமணன்), also spelled Bawa Lakshmanan, is a Tamil film character comedian active from 1990, known for the "Vaa Ma Minnal" dialogue in Maayi (2000) and the servant role in Aanandham (2001), long paired with Vadivelu.
Bavarian cream
Bavarian cream (crème bavaroise, Bayerische Creme, Bavarois): a gelatin-set vanilla custard lightened with whipped cream, molded and unmolded; origin disputed between Bavaria and France, codified by Carême as fromage bavarois.
Bavarian cuisine
Bavarian cuisine (Bayerische Küche) is the cooking tradition of Bavaria, Germany's largest state, built on pork, potatoes, flour, and dairy and divided into regional cuisines of Altbayern, Franconia, and Swabia.
Bawaal (बवाल)
Bawaal (बवाल) is a 2023 Hindi romantic drama directed by Nitesh Tiwari, starring Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor, released directly on Prime Video on 21 July 2023; it was 2023's most-watched direct-to-OTT Hindi film but drew Holocaust-trivialization controversy.
Bawarchi (बावर्ची)
Bawarchi (बावर्ची), also known as The Cook, is a 1972 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, starring Rajesh Khanna as cook Raghu and Jaya Bhaduri, a remake of Tapan Sinha's Bengali Golpo Holeo Sotti with music by Madan Mohan.
Bawls
Bawls Guarana, a highly caffeinated guarana soda launched by Hoby Buppert in Miami Beach in November 1996, sold in a cobalt-blue bumpy bottle with 64 mg caffeine per 10 oz, a 2000s LAN-party and QuakeCon gamer staple.
Baxter Dury
Baxter Dury (born 1971) is an English singer-songwriter, son of Ian Dury, known for spoken-sung indie pop on albums from Len Parrot's Memorial Lift (2002) to Allbarone (2025) and the memoir Chaise Longue.
Bay Area Figurative Movement
The Bay Area Figurative Movement, also called the Bay Area Figurative School, was a 1950s and 1960s art movement in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Area thrash
Bay Area thrash is the thrash metal scene centered on San Francisco and the East Bay, home to Metallica, Exodus, and Testament from the early 1980s.
Bay City Rollers
Bay City Rollers: Scottish pop rock band from Edinburgh, 1970s teen idols behind Rollermania, "Bye Bye Baby" and "Shang-a-Lang"; tartan image, two UK No. 1 singles in 1975, manager Tam Paton disputes, and later lineups led by Stuart Wood.
Bay FM
Bay FM, also known as Bay FM 78, is a commercial FM radio station in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, broadcasting on 78.0 MHz since 1989 and serving the Tokyo Bay area.
Bay of Angels
Bay of Angels (La Baie des Anges) is Jacques Demy's 1963 French black-and-white romantic drama starring Jeanne Moreau as compulsive gambler Jackie and Claude Mann as bank clerk Jean, with Michel Legrand's score, set in the casinos of Nice.
Bay Street Boards
Bay Street Boards: family-owned surf and skate shop at 3216 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, founded by Galeazzo and Sante Bentivoglio (later joined by brother Francesco); known for board repairs, rentals, used boards, and community board swaps.
Bay Tree Egg
The Bay Tree Egg is a 1911 Imperial Fabergé egg from Nicholas II to his mother, hiding a mechanical singing bird; it is now in Saint Petersburg.
Bay Yanlış
Bay Yanlış ("Mr. Wrong") is a 2020 Turkish romantic comedy series by Gold Film for FOX, starring Can Yaman and Özge Gürel as neighbors Özgür and Ezgi. It ran 14 episodes (26 June–2 October 2020), ended early over ratings, and sold to 100+ countries as "Wrong".
Baya Mahieddine
Baya Mahieddine, born Fatma Haddad and known simply as Baya, was a self-taught Algerian painter whose gouaches of women, birds, and fish made her a sensation in Paris.
Bayaan (film)
Bayaan (बयान, Testimony) is a 2025 Hindi police procedural thriller by Bikas Ranjan Mishra starring Huma Qureshi as detective Roohi investigating a revered Rajasthan cult leader's abuse; it premiered in TIFF 2025's Discovery section and won the Sundar Prize Best Feature.
Bayani (historian)
Bayani, born Muhammad Yusuf Bek, was a Khivan poet, historian, and court official under the Khiva khans who wrote the Shajara-yi khwarazmshahi, a general history of Khorezm, before his death in 1923.
Bayati
Bayati (Azerbaijani: Bayatı) is a form of Azerbaijani folk poetry of four seven-syllable lines with an a-a-b-a rhyme scheme, one of the oldest lyric genres of the Azerbaijani oral tradition.