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The Power of Play
To make a paper doll you need paper, utensils used for drawing and/or coloring, an imagination, and illustrated clothing for the doll. Now, go back 150 years and make that paper doll black. To the previous list of materials, add a hidden agenda, hatred and cruelty toward a certain people, and a narrow definition of beauty.
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Julius Karash on Business and Arts: Introducing KC’s Next Wave of Arts Supporters
Damian Lair looks back with joy on school field trips to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art when he was a child living in Piqua, a small Kansas town about two hours southwest of Kansas City. “Through these visits, the Nelson planted a seed early in my life, a love of art and the museum,” Lair recalls.
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Susan Schmelzer on Arts Policy: Scoring the House
During this interminable campaign season, one longs to hear specific commitments on what candidates will do once elected. Congress works for us — that’s the way it’s supposed to be — but the job interview process falls down through raucous debates and vaudevillian-like rallies.
