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October 5, 2016

Crystal Bridges Exhibit Captures Power of Dance

John Singer Sargent’s Capri Girl on a Rooftop dancing to a tambourine. William H. Johnson’s modernist depiction of an African American couple jitterbugging. The iconic..
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October 3, 2016

Renovation Transforms KU’s Spencer Museum Of Art

The renovation nearing completion at the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence had three specific missions, but its immediate effect is all about light and transparency. When the museum reopens on the University of Kansas campus in October, visitors will discover not just a wholly transformed space, but a wholly transformed experience.
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September 28, 2016

New Film by Tosin Morohunfola Looks at Issues of Race and Police

A young black man is pulled over by a white cop in Chicago. It’s a scene increasingly dominant in our minds. The sense of foreboding..
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September 21, 2016

Susan Schmelzer on Arts Policy: When Times Were Good

The mid-1930s represents an odd historical peak in public support for arts in Missouri and Kansas; each of these legislatures commissioned elaborate murals for their respective capitol buildings.
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September 20, 2016

Jeanne Drewes: “I Fell in Love with the Books”

Few Americans were allowed to travel to Cuba in 1998, when Dr. Jeanne Drewes, a native Kansas Citian and UMKC alum who had worked at..
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September 19, 2016

Tom Toro’s Take, September/October 2016

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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September 15, 2016

To Alfonso, Gardener of Moon-dried Tomatoes

“Lately I’ve been writing poems that are shaped a little bit like tornadoes,” Wetzel says. “Most of them are about as chaotic, though I liked..
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September 15, 2016

Honors: Vi Nhan Tran

With his folk musical memoir, The Butcher's Son, the Vietnamese-born actor, storyteller and musician scored a major hit – and the funding to tour it.
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September 14, 2016

Nelson-Atkins Lecture Series Features the “Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World”

Kansas City’s skyline is ever-changing. The Mary Atkins Lecture Series at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art offers an annual forum for looking at the evolution of architecture here and abroad.
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