KC STUDIO

September 8, 2017

American Portraiture at Kemper Museum

Visiting a portrait show can be like standing in a room full of people you don’t know. But with prolonged contact, artworks, like people, reveal themselves. A fascination with portraits led Virginia Outwin Boochever (1920 – 2005), a docent at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, to endow a portrait competition at the museum where she led tours for almost 20 years.

September 8, 2017

At Crystal Bridges, Stuart Davis Will Color Your World

As a painter, Stuart Davis (1892-1964) represented a trailblazing strain of 20th-century American optimism. His jaunty canvases extended European modernism over a wide range of territory and human subject material. He celebrated urban streetscapes, shorelines and mundane life with an eye-popping sense of jazz-influenced rhythm and invention.

Articles

September 8, 2017

Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights

A small exhibition about an outsized legacy proves that small groups of committed people can change the world in profound ways. “Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights” at the Miller Nichols Library tells the story of how Kansas City became the unlikely site of the first national organizing efforts for LGBT rights more than 50 years ago. The 12 exhibition panels begin by asking the question, “How does change happen?”

September 8, 2017

A Pollock Masterwork Stops at the Nelson

Want to see the largest painting Jackson Pollock ever made? Now’s your chance. Through Oct. 29, Pollock’s “Mural,” measuring 8 by 20 feet, is on view in the Bloch Building Project Space. The showing in Kansas City is part of a global victory lap for the painting — now back in U.S. from a tour of Europe — following two years of restoration work. Made in 1943, “Mural” is the ultimate transitional work in Pollock’s oeuvre.

September 7, 2017

Arts News: Diary of a Storm Chaser

If 12-year-old Reed Timmer had been harmed the day he used the family video camera to shoot a severe thunderstorm in his West Michigan front..

September 7, 2017

Kenny Broberg – September 10 at The Folly Theater

Park International Center for Music graduate student Kenny Broberg, the silver medalist at the recently completed 15th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will perform in..

Just In

September 7, 2017

Editor’s Weekend Calendar Picks, September 7 – 10

This fall, the Nelson-Atkins teams up with performance group Quixotic to present a third Surfaces performance in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Bloch Building. Quixotic will use projection, choreography, and musical composition to honor Bloch Building architect Steven Holl, and shine a new light on this iconic building. Come early to claim your spot!

September 7, 2017

Liberty Arts Commission is Supporting the Arts, One Grant at a Time

If you take a walk in historic downtown Liberty, you’ll find a growing collection of public art — murals on the exterior and interior walls..

Community News

September 6, 2017

Miniature Masterworks: A Showcase of Fine-Scale Miniature Work

Kansas City will welcome sixty-eight artists from around the world to an unprecedented juried art show, September 15-17, 2017. The show is Miniature Masterworks and..