With the 2015 closing of Grand Arts, the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute is now KC’s go-to gallery for intellectually challenging..

Kansas City’s prominence as a vibrant city for art owes a huge debt to the presence of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Under executive director Bruce Hartman, the museum has helped Kansas City keep its eyes on the new, through stimulating exhibitions of national and international artists.

Lynnette Miranda is all about breaking down barriers, kicking doors open, speaking truth to power and making change. Her field of action is the visual..

Most museums have learned in recent decades that to survive and prosper they have to respond to the times. Change, grow or die. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art certainly has been on that path since the late 1990s, when its leaders chose to build a major expansion.