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September 12, 2016

Nostalgia Trip

Say what you will about the interstate system, the most fabled thoroughfare in American history remains Route 66, which in 1938 became the world’s first mega-highway paved end to end. Wending from Chicago to Santa Monica, Calif., the 2,448-mile, two-lane highway carried countless travelers before being decommissioned by the federal government in 1985.

September 12, 2016

Road Show

Most Americans are too young to remember the discouraging roads that confronted long-distance travelers before President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal Highway Act, enabling the creation of the U.S. Interstate Highway System in 1956. Sixty years later, the virtually completed system’s 47,500 miles of interconnected divided highways continues to promote safety and expediency for motorists while maintaining a vital impact on the nation’s way of life.

September 9, 2016

Julius A. Karash on Business and the Arts

Jeff Owens, a high-profile artist/filmmaker and developer in Kansas City’s Crossroads area, recalls a time when he actually benefitted from the ghostly atmosphere that permeated a largely abandoned neighborhood. “It was extremely quiet, hardly any activity going on,” Owens told me. “I could do all kinds of things movie-wise.

September 8, 2016

KC Collector Helps Launch Artist-Run Super PAC

That’s what artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman have to say about the current American political climate. Their frustration, shared by many Americans, is not unique. But their solution, the creation of an artist-run super PAC called “For Freedoms,” is without precedent.

September 7, 2016

An Adventure in Italy

It was a pilgrimage he had to make. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art director and CEO Julián Zugazagoitia has been an avid admirer of Bulgarian artist..

September 6, 2016

Siah Armajani: Bridge Builder

This fall, over 30 drawings, sculptures and architectural maquettes by internationally renowned artist and architect Siah Armajani will be on display at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. “Siah Armajani: Bridge Builder” will showcase five decades of work focusing on bridges, highlighting Armajani’s technical expertise as well as his symbolic and political investment in the bridge form.

September 6, 2016

Karbank Buildings Renovation Includes Three Performance Halls

A glorious new entertainment venue has sprouted in the unlikely setting of a pair of office buildings in Mission Woods. Steven Karbank, chairman of Karbank..

September 5, 2016

Artist to Watch: Michael Kirkendoll

A grotto in a 13th-century Tuscan monastery. A mechanic’s garage. A floating barge under the Brooklyn Bridge. A haunted Gothic chapel in downtown Kansas City. Wherever he goes, pianist Michael Kirkendoll brings his passion for the music of living composers. Considering that he studied his whole life — well into his doctorate — basically despising new music, the turnabout has been completed.

September 2, 2016

Nelson-Atkins Lands a German Neo-Expressionist Masterwork

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has turned William Shakespeare’s phrase, “much ado about nothing,” completely around. With little fanfare it has acquired and recently put..

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