KC STUDIO

March 2, 2017

“HARD HABIT TO BREAK!”

Friday, March 3, 2017 – 8 PM in Helzberg Hall It’s time to join THE KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA for spectacular big band celebration of..

March 1, 2017

Kemper Scores a Coup with Rashid Johnson Exhibit

Rashid Johnson is one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. In 2013 “Flash Art” magazine christened him a “post-black flower child” whose work coaxes viewers to come to grips with “complex historical reckoning.”

March 1, 2017

A “Game-Changing Asset”

Kansas City’s prominence as a vibrant city for art owes a huge debt to the presence of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Under executive director Bruce Hartman, the museum has helped Kansas City keep its eyes on the new, through stimulating exhibitions of national and international artists.

March 1, 2017

Leaning Into Difference: Lynnette Miranda

Lynnette Miranda is all about breaking down barriers, kicking doors open, speaking truth to power and making change. Her field of action is the visual..

March 1, 2017

A Work for the Ages

“A Raisin in the Sun” is regarded as a major American play that not only reflects the era in which it was created — the 1950s — but continues to resonate for its insight into humanity in general and race in particular.

March 1, 2017

Makeover Masterpiece

Most museums have learned in recent decades that to survive and prosper they have to respond to the times. Change, grow or die. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art certainly has been on that path since the late 1990s, when its leaders chose to build a major expansion.

March 1, 2017

Editor’s Letter, March/April 2017

The best way to ensure the future of a healthy arts scene is to invest in artists. Over the past 20 years Kansas City has..

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February 28, 2017

“HARD HABIT TO BREAK!”

Friday, March 3, 2017 – 8 PM in Helzberg Hall It’s time to join THE KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA for a spectacular big band celebration..

February 26, 2017

The MET Scores with August Wilson’s Beautifully Written “Gem of the Ocean”

Fine performances — deeply felt, charismatic, Shakespearean — are what you take away from Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s affecting production of “Gem of the Ocean,” the..