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Defunding the arts

Arts organizations express uncertainty and alarm as the Trump administration slashes budgets and rescinds grants.

Concert to Come: Moving Arts moves with the times

This year’s summer dance festival at the Folly showcases the group’s new focus on contemporary work.

Reviews

Visual

“Past Futures,” Zhou B Art Center

Sauntering into the Zhou B Art Center’s vast and ample Spirit Gallery, one is immersed in the significance of cycles.

Performing

“Jazz KC Portraits by Dan White,” Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum

If there is a genre of music that best embodies the nuances of the human experience, it may very well be jazz.

Visual

“Prismatic,” Monarch Glass Studio

This month the Monarch Glass Studio sparkles with a series of new, three-dimensional, multimedia collaborations in the exhibition “Prismatic.”

Honors: Noelle Choy

The 2025 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award winner embodies freedom in strange, colorful and chaotic sculptures, installations and performance art.

Arts News: “Iron Harvest” exhibition documents WWI’s chilling environmental legacy

National WWI Museum and Memorial knew they wanted to do something about the Great War’s environmental legacy.

The Artist’s World: The Art of God

Artists are special; they take one small idea and make it grand, even when that idea is God.

Arts Consortium

Performing

Kauffman Center fosters love for the arts in Kansas City youth

The Kauffman Center aims to remove barriers to the arts for people all across the Kansas City area through their Open Doors community engagement initiatives.

Performing

An anniversary year ends as a new era unfolds

The Harriman-Jewell Series just concluded its 60th anniversary season, a remarkable milestone for any arts organization.

Performing

We’re back! (and it’s not “Poltergeist”)

Contractors, builders, volunteers, architects, engineers and an intrepid theatre company are thrilled to present the opening of Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s 21st season.