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January 11, 2016

Fun, Free, Eclectic, Experimental

KC Symphony scores a hit with free chamber music concerts. [block pos=”right”]The chamber music concerts draw a different and more diverse crowd than typically attends..

January 9, 2016

Kansas City Lyric Opera Launches Resident Artist Program

In Europe opera companies are considered cultural institutions and are often subsidized by government financing. In Germany there are more than 100 opera companies, three..

January 7, 2016

Collector’s Corner: Lee Lyon

Buying globally, giving locally, Nelson-Atkins Museum benefits from donor’s keen eye. World War II pilot, scuba diver, businessman, photographer, inventor, ceramicist and glass artist. Over..

January 6, 2016

How Jazz and the People Who Played it Put KC on the National Map

It’s September, 1936. Picture two cars leaving New York City bound for Kansas City. One takes the northerly route, cutting through Chicago and across Iowa..

January 6, 2016

Nursing and Art Converge in Exhibit at WWI Museum

Florence Nightingale, often credited as the founder of modern nursing, described the patient’s need for beauty in her 1860 Notes for Nursing, calling for patients..

January 5, 2016

Editor’s Letter, January/February 2016

The impact of machines and technology on society has been a topic of fascination for artists since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Almost a..

January 4, 2016

Post Punk

“Punk is dead. Get over it,” writes Stephen Proski in FVTVRE PVNK, a manifesto that marked his break with the Kansas City punk rock scene.But Proski never let his association with the punk scene define him. Over the last decade Proski, a writer, painter, graphic designer, guitarist, singer and underground club owner, has had a diverse creative presence in Kansas City.

January 4, 2016

Crowdfunding Kickstarts the Arts in Kansas City

From films to exhibitions, galleries to transgender lingerie ventures, new projects get a boost from Kickstarter. A little seed money can turn an old Chevy..

January 4, 2016

Ornamentation Everywhere

Still lifes and flower paintings don’t usually summon adjectives like “rebellious,” “subversive” and “transgressive.” But spend a little time in “Ephemeral Beauty: Robert Zakanitch” at the Nerman Museum, and you may see the connection. It’s a bower of a show, filled with mural-scaled evocations of lush organic growth, riotous color, exuberant brushwork and flowers, flowers, flowers.

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