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March 1, 2018

Critically Acclaimed Show of Cuban Printmaker Stops at Kemper Museum

After critically acclaimed stops at UCLA’s Fowler Museum and New York’s El Museo del Barrio, “Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999)” is now on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. In seductively powerful compositions, Ayón magnetizes with bold, yet ethereal, mask-like human and animal forms that share an enigmatic narrative, most often related to human questioning or suffering.
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March 1, 2018

Emerging Artists in the Spotlight: Foxes in the Fortress

What’s an emerging artist in Kansas City to do after art school? Caranne Camarena, like so many of her fellow Kansas City Art Institute painting majors circa 2012, had to decide: Stay or go. Return to hometown XYZ? Embark for coastal art capitals or Chicago? Maybe grad school? Stick it out in KC with a group of friends and splash into the frothy local scene? About halfway through her senior year, Camarena and her non-artist parents were kicking around ideas for real estate investment.
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March 1, 2018

‘An Opportunity to Catapult the Airport Well Into the 21st Century’

Barring another City Council revolt like the one that sent a publicly approved plan for a new airport into a tailspin last fall, Kansas City will be getting a new airport designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). SOM is one of the oldest and largest architectural, urban planning and engineering firms in the nation, with an airport track record second to none. The proposed $1 billion single terminal will replace the three existing terminals built more than four decades ago.
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March 1, 2018

Editor’s Letter, March/April 2018

Nothing keeps a city’s arts scene more vibrant than a constant infusion of new talent — but it must be attracted and supported. One program..
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January 26, 2018

Standing Up for Veterans – All of Them

J. Malcolm Garcia has traveled widely — and often dangerously — in his role as freelance journalist, getting his passport stamped from Sierra Leone to Syria, and from Pakistan to Afghanistan. But he calls Kansas City home. So, he qualifies as a local author, albeit one whose writings have documented people and places far beyond the American heartland.
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January 24, 2018

The Job: Rachael Blackburn Cozad

Except for the few collectors among us, most people know little about the work of fine art appraisers and the prominence in the profession of Kansas City’s Rachael Blackburn Cozad. Cozad, the daughter of two artists, the holder of bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art history has been prominent in Kansas City art circles since her arrival in 2001 to begin an 11-year tenure as executive director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
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January 22, 2018

Arts News: Acclaimed Dance Theatre of Harlem Returns to Kansas City

Breaking boundaries since its inception in 1969, Dance Theatre of Harlem returns to Kansas City Feb. 9 for a performance at the Muriel Kauffman Theatre...
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January 17, 2018

Arts News: Midtown Marvel

Welcome to 160,000 square feet of innovation. After five years of planning and negotiating, Plexpod Westport Commons, a millennial-styled center for business that encompasses community,..
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January 16, 2018

Tom Toro’s Take, January/February 2018

Tom Toro is a cartoonist and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Audubon, among others. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he now lives in KCMO with his wife, Marissa Wolf, a theatre artist who is the Director of New Works at KC Rep.
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