Steve Paul

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March 3, 2025

See Hear: Steve Paul On Rambling Around the Arts | The Nelson-Atkins envisions a bold new step into the future

The best architecture makes us feel alive. The way designers shape materials and the space around people can produce a buoyant sensory engagement before we even think about it.

January 8, 2025

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Many American Stories Intersect at the Truman Library’s High-Modern Portrait of a President

On Feb. 11, 1965, Harry S. Truman met the painter Elaine de Kooning for the first time as she presented her new portrait of another American president, John F. Kennedy, to the Truman Library in Independence.

December 20, 2024

Doing Dylan: “A Complete Unknown” Offers a Respectable Slice of a Time and a Music Revolution

As a slice-of-life biography of a cultural giant, director James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” must walk a line, as it were, between two audiences.

November 4, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | How the Story of an Artist, a Painting and a Poet Unexpectedly Intertwines

Jenny Molberg with de Kooning books (photo by Jonny Ulasien) In gathering material and sifting archival sands for the book project I’m currently immersed in,..

September 9, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | An Omaha Museum Grows Again in Vibrant New Directions

An intriguing sense of historical continuity slowly emerges in the newly expanded Joslyn Art Museum.

July 3, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | How an obscure Kansas City author is coming back to life at 100

Vincent O. Carter’s 100th birthday (June 23) has come and gone.

May 20, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Long down for the count, the 150-year-old Sauer Castle is on the way to a rebirth

A century and a half after German immigrant Anton Sauer built a palatial residence on a bluff near the Kansas River, its new owner is showing a visitor the rubble and the glory that define the historic home’s present and future.

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April 1, 2024

Baseball and the Crossroads? Can’t We Devise a Better Plan?

Is it possible to be both a baseball fan and against the Kansas City Royals’ proposal to build a downtown park in the Crossroads Arts District?

February 27, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | There’s ongoing concern – and reason to hope – as the Plaza is reimagined

The vacant “Nordstrom hole” is both a wound and an opportunity to begin re-envisioning the potential of the Country Club Plaza. (photo by Steve Paul)..

Author: Steve Paul