Gallery Glance: Contemporary Textile at Salina Art Center

September 8, 2021

Gallery Glance: Contemporary Textile at Salina Art Center

“Contemporary Textile,” the inaugural exhibit from the Salina Art Center’s new curator, Jefferson Godard, continues the dialogue initiated by former curator Gretchen Boyum, who came up with the initial concept for the show.

August 31, 2021

Editor’s Letter, September/October 2021

The Delta variant means this is not the fall we’d hoped for, yet as this issue goes to press, KC arts organizations are on the rebound, with a well-stocked calendar of performances and exhibits to enjoy, albeit while wearing masks.

July 5, 2021

Editor’s Letter, July/August 2021

In May, the Kansas City Symphony returned to live performances in Helzberg Hall in advance of a 2021/2022 season of in-person concerts at full capacity with no mask requirements.

July 2, 2021

Back in Business

The announcement of JoAnne Northrup as the new executive director and chief curator of the Nerman Museum roughly coincided with the June 1 resumption of regular gallery hours.

July 2, 2021

The Art of Flowers

Peonies, pansies, hydrangeas and lilies of the valley are not your typical art materials, but there is one class of artists who habitually uses these and other blooms to create stunning works of art.

February 22, 2021

Editor’s Letter, March/April 2021

After 30 years as executive director and chief curator of the JCCC Gallery of Art and then The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Bruce Hartman retired Dec. 31, 2020.

January 26, 2021

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Acquires Early Drape Painting by Sam Gilliam

At 87, groundbreaking American abstractionist Sam Gilliam has reached the pinnacle of his career with a spate of international exhibits and prices sometimes topping the million-dollar mark.

January 6, 2021

Editor’s Letter, January/February 2021

The new year brings positive thoughts as the country prepares to welcome a new president, and a vaccine promises an end to the cultural depredations of the pandemic.

November 4, 2020

Gallery Glance: Haw Contemporary Re-releases Edition of Wendy Red Star’s “The Last Thanks”

Museum goers in Kansas City have had multiple opportunities to see Crow artist Wendy Red Star’s “The Four Seasons” photographic self-portraits in exhibits at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Author: Alice Thorson