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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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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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‘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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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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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.