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April 29, 2021

KC Rep Fights its Way Back from Season Lost to COVID-19

Kansas City Repertory Theatre has announced a 2021-22 season, which includes indoor and outdoor performances, a three-show subscription series and three special events, including a live production of the Rep’s holiday favorite, “A Christmas Carol.”
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April 28, 2021

Shawn Edwards: Cultural Activist

“If you study the history of film, one of the things that’s been misrepresented is how Black people fall in love. How we demonstrate our love for each other,” says award-winning film critic Shawn Edwards.
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April 28, 2021

Dyani White Hawk: Nurturing the Spirit

Like a juggler twirling multiple plates, Dyani White Hawk, in her exhibition “Speaking to Relatives,” seamlessly melds different cultures, languages and aesthetic traditions into one immersive event.
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April 27, 2021

Museums Innovate and Push Ahead Amid Continuing Uncertainties

After more than a year’s worth of pandemic upheaval, the museum world is still navigating choppy seas.
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March 30, 2021

At 50, BkMk Press Faces Uncertain Future

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Kansas City’s BkMk Press, one of Kansas City’s few book publishers and second oldest only to Andrews McMeel.
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March 29, 2021

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Acquires “Kobe Urn” by KCAI Alum Roberto Lugo

Roberto Lugo, a 2012 BFA graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has seen his Kansas City connection come full circle with the acquisition of “Kobe Urn” by the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
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March 23, 2021

Nelson-Atkins Conservation Department Shines in New Exhibit

Among the many exhibitions upended by the pandemic, a stellar show of recently conserved objects in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was put on hold when the museum closed in March 2020.
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March 22, 2021

Now’s the Time to Take the Jazz Museum to the Next Level

Rashida Phillips arrived in Kansas City in January 2020, expressly chosen to set things right at the American Jazz Museum, which has proven to be a wobbly anchor of the 18th and Vine district.
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March 16, 2021

A Rebel Pioneer of Female Self-Portraiture

19th-century photographic representations of women tend to reflect societal constraints — subservience, commodification, piousness and maternalism. But for Virginia Oldoini, the Countess de Castiglione, challenging norms became her life’s work.
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