Brian Hearn

July 14, 2022

Strange and Beautiful: The Artistic Fruits of Spanish Colonialism in the Americas

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is currently hosting a rare exhibition of 15 fascinating paintings spanning the 17th and 18th centuries of Spanish colonial rule in South America.

Partners

May 10, 2022

Light, Color and Sound Animate ‘Immersive’ Exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center

The Des Moines Art Center responds to audience demand for immersive art with an “experiential exhibition” that flips the switch on the white cube of the conventional gallery. 

Partners

May 3, 2022

Summer Destinations: Shows to See at KC Museums

Brooklyn-based Shinique Smith unveils a new multidisciplinary body of work for her solo exhibition and debuts a new time-based work that evolved out of her 2018 performance at Open Spaces KC.

April 28, 2022

Latinx Art Rising in KC: ‘La Onda’ Exhibition Series Showcases Emerging Artists

Over the past year, an exciting series of exhibits featuring works by young artists who identify as Latinx have been appearing in venues around Kansas City.

March 7, 2022

“James Woodfill: Stereophonic / Semaphoric,” Haw Contemporary

Closer to our near-post-pandemic moment, eminent Kansas City artist and educator Jim Woodfill busted out of his studio in a big way.

January 19, 2022

BlkArthouse: A New Model for Supporting, Promoting and Selling the Work of Black Artists

In 2020, with a core collective of six Black artists, Tatiana Rice launched BlkArthouse as a platform for connecting collectors with Black art while promoting and supporting artists through sales, exhibitions and professional development.

August 2, 2021

E.G. Schempf: Decades of Documenting KC’s Artistic Fortunes

Kansas City's premier photographer of art objects and exhibitions is also a keen-eyed artist in his own right.

January 7, 2021

“There are Black people in the future,” a collaborative window installation, Goethe Pop Up Kansas City

After years of living on the coasts Alisha B. Wormsley returned to the Pittsburgh neighborhood where she grew up to participate in a community-based artist residency.

December 7, 2020

“Jason Needham: Wintertide,” Habitat Contemporary Gallery

Kansas City painter Jason Needham offers up a new body of pandemic-era work in the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center’s newly minted exhibition space called Habitat Contemporary Gallery, run by Robert Gann, formerly of Studios Inc.

Author: Brian Hearn