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October 29, 2015

Ling-en Lu: Sharing Untold Stories

The Nelson's associate curator of Chinese art challenges the status quo with lively exhibits laced with subtle surprises.
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October 29, 2015

Collector’s Corner: Jack and Georgia Olsen

KC's go-to couple for blue-chip regional art have assembled a prime collection.
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October 29, 2015

Fresh Take on a Beloved Classic

Kansas City Ballet lights the season with a reimagined Nutcracker.
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October 29, 2015

Jack’s Journey

In 2016, at age 95, long-time KC resident Jack Jonathan hopes to return to Egypt, 64 years after he left that country. It seems fitting that a photography show, which enabled him to leave an Egypt in turmoil all those years ago, is the very thing impelling his return.
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October 21, 2015

“Faces of Change”: From Despair to Hope

A photography exhibit, titled “Faces of Change,” is coming this fall to the Kemper Museum. The images are by Nick Vedros, a KC-based photographer with a glittering list of corporate clients, including Apple, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, DuPont and Sony. The faces belong to Kansas prison inmates.
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October 14, 2015

Artist to Watch: Lamin Pereira Dos Santos

Every day is like an audition,” said Lamin Pereira dos Santos, company member of the Kansas City Ballet. “You have to show good work.” In..
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October 12, 2015

Collectors Corner: Roberta and Elton Gumbel, Jr.

When Dr. Elton Gumbel died in 2006, he left behind hundreds of paintings and drawings. Many people knew Gumbel as an optometrist. He was the first black optometrist in Kansas City and the first licensed black optometrist in the state of Missouri.  But he was also a prolific self-taught artist, who never had an exhibit or any other public exposure of his work.
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October 8, 2015

Honors: Carlos Perez

Transgenderism is more mainstream than ever in 2015, if only because of unprecedented media coverage surrounding the transition of Bruce Jenner to Caitlyn Jenner. Local writer Carlos Perez stands to benefit from the trend with his new transgender stage drama, In Hyding, although he wasn’t influenced by the former Olympic champion and reality TV star coming out as female.
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October 6, 2015

Artist Pages: Art Miller – “Transformed”

“In recent years, I’ve noticed an odd marriage (both metaphysical and substantive) between America’s Christian churches and American commerce. Structures originally designed and built as..
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