KC STUDIO

July 15, 2015

Letter from the Editor, July/August 2015

It’s not all fitness at UMKC’s Swinney Recreation Center. Weekdays, between 6 and 8 a.m., the gym is also a Culture Club, where artists and..

July 15, 2015

The Secret Life of Cynthia Siebert

What do you think of when you hear “chamber music?” Four musicians in black, playing stately and somber string compositions. Oh, so dignified and oh, what a snooze. Right?

July 14, 2015

Summerfest Anniversary Concert Details

J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 has long been on the wish list of the Summerfest musicians and will feature a larger than ever ensemble..

July 13, 2015

“That Used to be Us” at Haw Contemporary

Ancient nude men fill the walls of the front gallery space of Haw Contemporary’s exhibition,“That Used to be Us.” Images of iconic, art historical statues..

July 12, 2015

Kansas City Actors Theatre Welcomes Victor Raider-Wexler to the Collective

1) Tell us a little about Victor and how you got involved with theatre. At the age of nine I was cast in The Wernert’s..

July 10, 2015

Philip Haas: The Four Seasons at the Nelson-Atkins

Philip Haas, a contemporary artist and filmmaker, has created four monumental portrait busts entitled The Four Seasons. Haas’s 15-foot-tall sculptures are 3-dimensional interpretations of the..

July 10, 2015

Turning Point

1945: It was the end, and it was the beginning. And it’s the focus of “Till We Meet Again”, an exhibit at the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Artifacts, newsreels, maps and patriotic posters bring us face to face with the most eventful year of the twentieth century. Franklin Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945 a year after winning his fourth election as president.

July 7, 2015

The Secret Garden at The Theatre in the Park, Final Show This Saturday, July 11

This enchanting classic of children’s literature is reimagined in brilliant musical style by composer Lucy Simon and Marsha Norman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Night..

July 6, 2015

“Avery Danziger: Seeking Permanance” at Sherry Leedy Contemporay Art

“The photographs do not…critique social power structures or government; rather they illustrate a different power: that of the natural world and its cycles of decay..