Alice Thorson

May 2, 2016

Collector’s Corner: Lewis and Sue Nerman

Lewis and Sue Nerman’s Hallbrook home could easily be mistaken for a contemporary art museum. Every wall displays major works by leading names from Pop..

April 29, 2016

Editor’s Letter, May/June 2016

In this primary election season, we are reminded more than ever that stereotypes are the bane of a just society. And so it is no..

April 6, 2016

Artist Pages | Mary Wessel: “Water”

Mary Wessel knows how to wrest magic from photography.

March 28, 2016

Davin Watne Painting Featured in Netflix Drama Master of None

Kansas City artist Davin Watne has been racking up exposure over the past 15 months. In late 2014, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art acquired Watne’s multi-panel painting, Feel Secure, featuring 20 images of armored police vehicles from countries around the world.

March 11, 2016

Ceramics Finds at the Nelson Store

Watch for a festive display by well-known Kansas City ceramics artist Irma Starr at the Nelson-Atkins Museum store during the NCECA conference. Starr has created..

March 9, 2016

Clay for All

Clay claims the spotlight, fills the frame, dominates the conversation and asserts a commanding presence in KC’s exhibition spaces this season, as the city plays host to the 50th annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) from March 16-19.

March 4, 2016

Goldenburg Duo Celebrates 35th Anniversary

Their fans are hooked on the Goldenberg duo’s twice-yearly concerts at venues around Kansas City. “Quirky, heartfelt and endearing,” is how regular Venne-Richard Londré describes the one-hour free performances featuring pianist William Goldenberg, distinguished professor and chair of the piano department at Northern Illinois University, and his sister, violinist Susan Goldenberg, a longtime member of the Kansas City Symphony.

March 1, 2016

Collector’s Corner: Marc and Elizabeth Wilson

For Marc and Elizabeth Wilson, the world is a great visual playground of “forms and shapes” awaiting discovery and investigation. Marc Wilson is former director and CEO of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which he led for 28 years following a decade as a curator of the museum’s Oriental art collection.