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‘Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure’

A traveling exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art revisits the iconic oeuvre of a Modernist master.

Guiding the Spiritual and Soothing the Anxious

Te Deum closes out their 15th season with “Monteverdi’s Venetian Vespers of 1641,” a recreated vespers service from the 17th century.

A Walking Labyrinth in Lawrence

Eminent American artist Janine Antoni’s “here-ing” labyrinth at the KU Field Station aims to foster listening, wholeness and healing of the body and the land.

Reviews

Performing

At the Unicorn, “Lungs” is an Angsty, Engrossing Ride

The season-ending production of Duncan Macmillan's enjoyable, compact one-act is a reminder that a basic formula—intelligent script, attuned actors, crisp direction, understated design—makes for very satisfying theater.

Performing

KC Public’s Theatre Lab Presents a Fascinating Story but Could Have Gone Deeper With “Tipton”

Despite being a fascinating figure in Kansas City’s history, Billy Tipton is not an especially well-known name.

Online Reviews

KC Ballet Follows Its “Bliss Point”

The three disparate dances that comprise "Bliss Point" have in common a fresh and lighthearted unconventionality.

From the Magazine

Crowning Glory: Millinery in Paris, 1880-1905

Imagine a time and a place where you weren’t properly dressed unless you were wearing a hat.

In Praise of Owls

It wasn’t hovering. And looming isn’t the right word either. It wasn’t looming or hovering when I first saw it, when it first saw me.

Trumpeter Hermon Mehari’s new ‘Asmara’ album looks to his Eritrean roots

Hermon Mehari was born in Dallas and grew up mostly in Jefferson City, but the jazz trumpeter’s latest album takes inspiration from far beyond America.

Arts Consortium Partners

Discover a Whole New World on Powell Gardens’ East Lawn

This summer, Fortopia (May 25-Sept. 4, 2023) returns to Powell Gardens with new forts.

MTC Executive Director Promises Excitement for Everyone in New Season

Since starting at the Midwest Trust Center in September 2022, Executive Director Stacie McDaniel has hit the ground running.

Future Stages Festival

Since opening in 2011, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has featured renowned performers from around the world and helped establish the Kansas City area as an exciting and diverse cultural destination for all.

‘Spread the Love’: Library Burnishes its Branches with Art

The Kansas City Public Library has long opened its spaces to art, going back to the opening of the city’s first gallery, the Western Gallery of Art, on the second floor of its old quarters at Ninth and Locust streets in the late 1900s.

Performance Costumes at the Kansas City Museum

The Kansas City Museum’s collection contains more than 100,000 historical objects and offers a rich sampling of Kansas City’s local and regional history.

Superstars and Discoveries

The Harriman-Jewell Series’ 59th season is chock-full of longtime favorites like Emanuel Ax, as well as exciting new offerings, including a collaboration with the Mark Morris Dance Group celebrating the late, great Kansas City native Burt Bacharach.

Albrecht-Kemper Museum Hosts 2nd Annual Art Fair

This summer the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art will be hosting its second annual AKMA Art Fair in June.

“Andrew Mcilvaine: Resilience Story,” April 6 – October 12, 2023

Through rain there’s a spiritual and cultural downpour that floods the gallery with objects that represent sacred ceremonial practices.