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March 10, 2025

In Memoriam: Gerry Trilling (1945-2024)

As artist of fearless experimentation and expressiveness, rooted in textiles and a deep sense of family.
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January 21, 2025

Arts News: Jessica Hong joins Kemper Museum as chief curator

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art begins the new year with a freshly appointed chief curator.
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January 7, 2025

‘Knowing the West: Visual Legacies of the American West’

A profound exhibit at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art challenges the canon with new perspectives on American history.
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July 29, 2024

Start Your Engines: An insider’s guide to some of Oklahoma’s leading cultural attractions

If you find yourself road-tripping this summer south and west of the Missouri or Kansas borders, Tulsa and Oklahoma City have some worthy roadside attractions to explore.
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June 4, 2024

Jessica May: ‘Art is how you know you’re in community’

More than a decade ago Jessica May, then curator of contemporary and modern art at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art, first visited Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.
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March 19, 2024

An art museum designed with the 21st-century visitor in mind

Opening this fall, the new Museum of Art + Light in Manhattan, Kansas, will specialize in immersive digital exhibitions.
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January 10, 2024

Lilly McElroy: Meeting with the sun, poking holes in beauty

A deep sense of eco-anxiety pervades the artist's photographic interrogations of the American landscape.
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March 8, 2023

Artist Pages | Scott Francis: From the West

In this issue’s Artist Pages, Kansas City artist Scott Francis brings home a vision of tantalizing mountain and coastal scenes in locations from Aspen to Santa Barbara.
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December 5, 2022

Lawrence artist launches NFT project addressing the future of art

Richard Klocke always gravitated to the conceptual aspects of art making. “I see how artists work with ideas,” Klocke explained from his tidy North Lawrence studio.
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