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July 11, 2019

Arts News: Longtime KC Artist Anne Austin Pearce Takes New Post in California

The prolific, down-to-earth and exceptional Anne Austin Pearce, a Kansas City artist for as long as I can remember, has departed for Aliso Viego, California, to teach at Soka University, a four-year liberal arts college.

July 10, 2019

KC FilmFest Winner is Haunted By Absence

Sometimes art comes from tough choices. Take Brian Rose’s documentary, “When I Last Saw Jesse.” The film, which won best Heartland Feature Documentary at this spring’s Kansas City FilmFest International, is a haunting look at the 2006 disappearance of UMKC student Jesse Ross.

July 9, 2019

“Now/Here,” H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute

“Now/Here,” a fresh survey of 30 recent works by Kansas City artists of color, shows an interesting spectrum of both artistic media and approach, ranging..

July 9, 2019

Tom Toro’s Take, July/August 2019

Tom Toro is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in “The New Yorker,” “The New York Times,” “Harvard Business Review” and “Audubon,” among others. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage at the Armory.

July 8, 2019

2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe

These are just a few of the top talents presenting outdoor installations and performances as part of this year’s Art in the Loop, organized around the theme Make/Believe.

July 8, 2019

Honors: Jason Needham

For Jason Needham, creating art nowadays is all about the journey. What began as a self-imposed challenge for the Kansas City artist during his time as a stay-at-home parent has become the mainstay of his creative output. Needham’s early career focused on comic-style Pop Art paintings, a process he describes as “just having an idea and executing it.

July 7, 2019

Summerfest Chamber Music series opens first chapter of “Short Stories and Novelettes” in bold performance

We live and learn through stories, balancing the comfort of the familiar and the thrill of the new. Of our heroes, we strip away humanity..

July 5, 2019

A Magician in Porcelain: Victor Babu (1936 – 2019)

Victor Babu looked nothing like his art. Big and burly, with a voice that could only have been birthed in the Bronx, Babu created porcelain..

July 5, 2019

See Hear: Rockin’ the Nelson: On Andy Goldsworthy’s Moveable Wall

The Goldsworthy wall progresses, inch by inch, stone by stone. At least that was the plan for this summer. The British artist was scheduled to..