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March 13, 2017

Road-Tested and Fired Up: “Jazz 100” at JCCC

Jazz fans often lament that so many of the music’s legends have moved on to that jam session in the sky. And indeed, there’ll never..
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March 10, 2017

Arts News: Calling All Sleuths!

Here’s the scenario: It was Miss Scarlet, with a candlestick in the library. Using these pieces of information — from the board game “Clue” —..
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March 7, 2017

Tom Toro’s Take, March/April 2017

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 Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage at the Armory.
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March 6, 2017

Arts News: KC Symphony Makes Final Push to Create $55 Million Endowment

The new year brought a major announcement by the Kansas City Symphony: The organization is launching the final phase of its Masterpiece Campaign, an ambitious..
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March 3, 2017

Artist to Watch: Rasheedat “Ras” Badejo

That Rasheedat “Ras” Badejo would become an actress in demand — a hit at KC’s 2016 Fringe Festival who has played standout roles at the Coterie and the Unicorn — was far from expected.
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March 2, 2017

Gallery Glance: Paintings by Madeline Gallucci

For an emerging artist, it’s no small feat to land a prestigious Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award. Madeline Gallucci earned the honor in 2016,..
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March 2, 2017

Artists Mull “The State of the World” at Block Artspace

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..
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March 1, 2017

Kemper Scores a Coup with Rashid Johnson Exhibit

Rashid Johnson is one of the most sought-after artists of his generation. In 2013 “Flash Art” magazine christened him a “post-black flower child” whose work coaxes viewers to come to grips with “complex historical reckoning.”
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March 1, 2017

A “Game-Changing Asset”

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.
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