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June 1, 2021

Arts News: Nelson-Atkins Digital French Paintings Catalogue

he secret lives of paintings and what lies beneath their surfaces are among the extraordinary territories we explore in The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s new digital catalogue of its French paintings and pastels.
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March 10, 2020

“Marcus Cain: Borrowed Light” and “Ky Anderson: Star School,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Brooklyn-based Kansas City Art Institute alum Ky Anderson’s exhibit “Star School” is the result of a middle-of-the-night vision in which she imagined a series of paintings “filled with stars and the intricate structures used to view them.”
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October 15, 2019

“Look Me In The Eye: Portraits of Kansas City,” Epsten Gallery

Jam-packed may fairly describe the installation at the small Epsten Gallery.
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August 14, 2019

“Paper Routes – Women to Watch 2020,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

What the artist describes as “a community of naked, plush creatures called fumblys” populate Fuko Ito’s pastel-colored, psychedelic work, and I, for one, would like to go on record as saying I’m up for this adventure anytime.
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July 11, 2019

Arts News: Longtime KC Artist Anne Austin Pearce Takes New Post in California

The prolific, down-to-earth and exceptional Anne Austin Pearce, a Kansas City artist for as long as I can remember, has departed for Aliso Viego, California, to teach at Soka University, a four-year liberal arts college.
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March 12, 2019

When Women Ruled the World: An Interview with Egyptologist Kara Cooney

Egyptologist Kara Cooney’s March 19 talk at the Kauffman Center, “When Women Ruled the World,” begs today’s burning question: When WILL women rule the world?
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March 4, 2019

“Polly Apfelbaum: Waiting for the UFOS (a space between landscape and a bunch of flowers),” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Polly Apfelbaum is an iconoclast, refreshingly devoid of bullshit, and known for her wildly exuberant installations in which the floor is as important, or more, than the walls.
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November 2, 2018

Arts News: Nelson-Atkins Acquires Guerilla Girls Portfolio

The Guerrilla Girls are rock stars. I once saw them at a NYC College Arts Association conference riding the hotel escalator wearing their trademark gorilla masks and black clothing.
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August 27, 2018

“Michael Rees: Pneumatopia,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

Michael Rees is a modern romantic, his art lives in the spaces between science, philosophy, a kind of spatial mythology, visual and emotional pleasure (and sometimes frustration), and transitional relationships.
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