Author: Alice Thorson
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Regional Pride
As a graduate student at KU, Brett Knappe wrote catalog entries for artworks in the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Today, he’s running the place. Last February Knappe left his longtime post as associate professor of art history and curator of the Baker Art Collection at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan., to become the Albrecht-Kemper’s executive director.
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It’s About Time
The best art inspires us to think differently about things we know; it can also introduce us to things we’ve never dreamed of, like Uterusman, a superhero created by Chinese artist Lu Yang. Brace yourself: Uterusman’s powers derive from the artist’s imaginative re-envisioning of the female reproductive system.