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Sharing the Wealth: American Jazz Museum Exhibits Hale Woodruff Family Collection
Hale Woodruff (1900-1980) is “one of the most important figures in 20th-century African-American art,” according to the authoritative reference work, African Americans in the Visual Arts, and this fall, Kansas City-area art lovers will have two opportunities to experience his accomplishments.
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Eastward Ho for “Missouri’s Artist”
Next to Thomas Hart Benton, George Caleb Bingham is probably the best-known artist of Missouri and the first major American painter to be based west of the Mississippi. He was born in 1811 in Virginia and moved to Boon’s Lick, Mo., as a young boy. Even as a child, Bingham was fascinated by rivers and all the activity on them.
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Susan Schmelzer on Arts Policy: The Devil’s Playground
Like a good father, Washington spent much of his final term as President writing – advising us on the democratic experiment, our obligations to the founding principles and potential pitfalls of democracy. One of his oft-reiterated warnings was of extreme partisanship and the scourge it could be to governance.
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Bringing Art to Life
Twenty years ago, when Kansas City Repertory Theatre artistic director Eric Rosen was beginning his career, he worked as an assistant director at the Goodman Theatre. The theater is located in the Grand Hall of the Art Institute of Chicago, where the Post-Impressionist masterwork, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, by Georges Seurat, hangs.
