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April 30, 2024

“5M: Works from a Private Collection,” United Colors Gallery

In the small room that constitutes United Colors Gallery in Kansas City, Haan and Cesar Lopez have managed to pack in a lot to explore in just one exhibition.
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March 27, 2024

In Praise Of: Confluence

My question is no longer, How do I settle in this place? It has become, How do I inhabit this point of confluence?
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February 6, 2024

In Praise Of: Keeping Time

It’s impossible to be a sundial, at least most mornings. Pocket devices buzz and ping. Alarms go off. The coffee maker beeps to say the pot is fresh and ready.
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October 3, 2023

In Praise of Klee’s Head

It’s been more than a decade now since the Paul Klee image I’m thinking of was on display at the Nelson-Atkins.
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July 24, 2023

In Praise of Okra’s Imperfections

There is no such thing as perfect okra. You can forget about it. There is only okra as it appears in various stages.
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May 24, 2023

In Praise of Owls

It wasn’t hovering. And looming isn’t the right word either. It wasn’t looming or hovering when I first saw it, when it first saw me.
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March 21, 2023

In Praise of Sweeping

Something odd. Something off. Something particular, peculiar about the way the tailor sweeps the steps in front of the shop this morning.
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September 5, 2017

A Year in the Life of an American Literary Genius

Steve Paul's "Hemingway at Eighteen" includes a vivid account of the fledging author's formative time in KC.
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