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Reassessing Fritz Scholder
Forty years ago, Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) reset the course of American Indian art when he embarked on a series of powerful figurative depictions of lone Indians in a state of existential crisis. The canvases were large, many nearing nine by six feet, balancing zones of emotionally charged color with energetic brushwork.
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Art Fabricator to the World
On a Sunday morning in early May, a helicopter gently removed the eastern-most and largest of the four Sky Stations atop Bartle Hall. Damaged by lightning, the nearly 40,000-pound sculpture was trucked to Zahner Co. for repairs. That destination made perfect sense: Zahner Co. is the Kansas City firm that worked with artist R.M. Fischer to produce the $1.2 million public sculpture, which was installed in 1994.
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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.