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Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking

“There was no other place like it. It was a place where all kinds of people came, worked with and accepted each other,” recalled the artist Chaim Koppelman when describing

Special Exhibition: 100 Years of Collecting | April 2, 2020 – March 7, 2021

The National WWI Museum and Memorial started collecting objects and documents directly from the war in 1920, making it the second oldest collecting institution of World War I material culture

“Marcus Cain: Borrowed Light” and “Ky Anderson: Star School,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Brooklyn-based Kansas City Art Institute alum Ky Anderson’s exhibit “Star School” is the result of a middle-of-the-night vision in which she imagined a series of paintings “filled with stars and the intricate

Marching Toward the Singularity

Artists have engaged technology to aid and enhance their creations at least since the Renaissance and possibly as early as prehistoric times. Consider, for example, David Hockney’s book “Secret Knowledge:

KCI Airport Art Project Moves Ahead Led by Public Art Consultant Community Arts International

Representatives of the recently chosen public art consultant for the KCI single terminal project introduced themselves and asked for input at a Feb. 3 meeting of the city’s Municipal Art

Arts News: Hartman Presents His Last ‘Beyond Bounds’

Walk into any Kansas City area art collection, modest or major, and chances are you’ll find an artwork created from a vinyl LP, a silk scarf, a wood box or specific mediums in colors including ruby red, electric blue and brilliant yellow. Gold leaf and sterling silver also figure in the mix. All of these specially themed objects have a single source.

March 19, 2020
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Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking

“There was no other place like it. It was a place where all kinds of people came, worked with and accepted each other,” recalled the artist Chaim Koppelman when describing the printmaking workshop that Robert Blackburn launched in 1947 with a single press installed in his Chelsea loft in New York. Born to Jamaican immigrants, […]

March 17, 2020
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Special Exhibition: 100 Years of Collecting | April 2, 2020 – March 7, 2021

The National WWI Museum and Memorial started collecting objects and documents directly from the war in 1920, making it the second oldest collecting institution of World War I material culture in the world. The collection was determined early on to be all-inclusive of every nation actively participating in the war. Regardless of what might happen […]

March 17, 2020
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“Marcus Cain: Borrowed Light” and “Ky Anderson: Star School,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Brooklyn-based Kansas City Art Institute alum Ky Anderson’s exhibit “Star School” is the result of a middle-of-the-night vision in which she imagined a series of paintings “filled with stars and the intricate structures used to view them.” Executed on paper and raw canvas in acrylic and oil stick, Anderson’s works veer between painting and drawing. “Stacked Viewing” on […]

March 10, 2020
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Marching Toward the Singularity

Artists have engaged technology to aid and enhance their creations at least since the Renaissance and possibly as early as prehistoric times. Consider, for example, David Hockney’s book “Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters” or Penn & Teller’s documentary “Tim’s Vermeer.”

March 10, 2020
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KCI Airport Art Project Moves Ahead Led by Public Art Consultant Community Arts International

Representatives of the recently chosen public art consultant for the KCI single terminal project introduced themselves and asked for input at a Feb. 3 meeting of the city’s Municipal Art Commission. “We are in the process of reaching out,” said Elsa Cameron, president and chief curator of Community Arts International (CAI), a San Francisco-based nonprofit.

March 3, 2020
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