Author: Nan Chisholm

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December 8, 2021

Charleen Shipp: Train Maker

Ninety-four-year-old Charleen Shipp grew up as a tomboy on a farm outside Booneville, Missouri. She loved nothing better than to shadow her father all day long, completely absorbed as she watched him build gates or a shed, fixing just about anything and running the family farm.
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December 6, 2021

Gallery Glance: ‘Castles, Cottages and Crime’ at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Shortly after his arrival as deputy director of curatorial affairs at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in February 2020, William Keyse Rudolph began exploring the museum’s storage areas.
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December 2, 2021

Bakker Brown: Stylish But Not Scratchy

Cecilia Bakker could not find clothing she considered acceptable. Together with her husband, Tim S. Brown, she founded Bakker Brown in 2016.
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October 22, 2021

“Momoko Usami: Relics of the Deluge,” Beco Gallery

“Relics of the Deluge,” an exhibition of ceramic works and watercolors by Momoko Usami at Beco Gallery, offers viewers a fascinating view into an imaginary world of the future.
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October 5, 2021

Arts News: George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné Now Available Online

The recent announcement by the Riverbank Foundation that the George Caleb Bingham catalogue raisonné is in the process of being converted to an online format is welcome news.
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July 13, 2021

Honors: Whitney Manney

Whitney Manney is on fire, a remarkable whirling dervish of activity and production.
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March 23, 2021

Nelson-Atkins Conservation Department Shines in New Exhibit

Among the many exhibitions upended by the pandemic, a stellar show of recently conserved objects in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was put on hold when the museum closed in March 2020.
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January 12, 2021

‘Silk and Steel’: How French Women Kept their Sense of Style in Wartime

Offering a look at daily life through the changing styles of wartime, “Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI” explores what French women contributed to the war effort and how it affected their lives and fashion.
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October 19, 2020

“Memory Ponds by Gerry Trilling,” Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art

Gerry Trilling has provided us all with a new visual repertoire to replace those outdated crochet images in “Memory Ponds,” her new exhibition of approximately 160 works, each titled with a number, at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art.
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