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January 4, 2017

Friends of Chamber Music Honors Two Masters of the Historic Keyboard

During this 40th anniversary season, the Friends of Chamber Music will present Lifetime Achievement Awards to Alexei Lubimov and Malcolm Bilson, two of the world’s most acclaimed proponents of historic keyboard performance practice. The Friends bring internationally-renowned musicians to Kansas City every season and connections span the globe.

January 4, 2017

A Knockout Punch to Racial Stereotypes

Roger Shimomura’s art has never seemed more timely. In the wake of a vitriolic election season, with its red hot issues of populism, anti-immigration and racial bias, the veteran artist’s unique ability to pictorially blend wit and humor with themes of racism and the anguish it causes is right on target.

January 3, 2017

Quixotic Scores a Hit with Dazzling Digital Projections

When is a far-out dance company far more than a far-out dance company? When it’s Kansas City’s Quixotic. The outer reaches of artistic possibility were never more palpable for Quixotic’s co-founder and creative director Anthony Magliano than in February 2016, when he and his multi-talented group of mind-blowers projected a landmark mini-movie on two sides of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

January 3, 2017

Domestic Disturbances

Themes of memory, loss, disaffection, and personal/political anxiety run through the Nerman Museum’s “Domestic Seen” exhibit featuring works by seven artists from New York to L.A. Drawings, paintings, photographs and films tell stories that reach beyond the domestic net that contains them here and resonate with larger cultural and economic issues facing American society.

January 3, 2017

Folk Alliance International Celebrates Musical Activism

The timing couldn’t have been better. Months before we knew how the 2016 presidential election would play out, organizers at Folk Alliance International had chosen a theme for the annual conference this year in Kansas City — “Forbidden Folk – Celebrating Activism in Art.” Billy Bragg will be the keynote speaker as well as the headliner at the Kansas City Folk Festival on the final day of the public/private conference.

January 3, 2017

Nate Fors: iPad Drawings

Long before Kansas City art achieved the respect it enjoys today, Nate Fors made local history with an exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

January 3, 2017

Editor’s Letter, January/February 2017

Three days after the election, the Truman Library Institute issued a press release that characterized Donald Trump’s victory as “a political upset that stunned the..

December 27, 2016

Americans in Paris: The City as Character in “My Old Lady”

Though a New York City native, Israel Horovitz calls My Old Lady his love letter to la Ville Lumiere, the City of Lights. Though it..

December 20, 2016

“Full Circle: New Works by Jason Pollen,” MLB Designs

There are over 100 textiles in “Full Circle: New Works by Jason Pollen,” an exhibit 18 months in the making. The 75-year-old artist, who was..