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November 9, 2020

Third Thursday’s Showcase Artists

The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College initiated its popular program of Third Thursday Visiting Artists Presentations in 2008, one year..

November 9, 2020

Reckoning With 2020 Vision: Is it Over Yet?

So how has your year gone? And do we have anything more to worry about? As I write this, I do not know whether today, as you’re reading, we have a conclusive view of the current state of our democracy.

November 6, 2020

Perfectly Imperfect: Cranach, Dürer and the Renaissance Nude

The pursuit of the “perfect” female body was as much a preoccupation in Renaissance Europe as it is today. Like the filtered photographs that we..

November 6, 2020

“Sheila Pree Bright: #1960Now,” Outside FADS Building, Johnson County Community College

“Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are..

November 6, 2020

Silk and Steel: French Fashion, Women and WWI

The First World War exploded in the late summer of 1914. Armies took the field in bright uniforms. Navies steamed to sea flying the colors of their nations. It was supposed to be over by Christmas, but it was not.

November 6, 2020

Fan Art, Pokéman Yoga Poses: Library Works to Stay Connected to Teens, Tweens

With much of her world slowed or shut down and what looked to be a dull, socially distanced summer ahead, 15-year-old Guadalupe Pacheco found solace..

November 5, 2020

“Ryan Wilks: Heaven,” The Smalter Gallery

Ryan Wilks' “Heaven” is a brooding meditation on Christianity’s obsession with the human body and a lamentation of institutionalized religion’s frequent marginalization of the LGBTQ community.

November 5, 2020

Redefining Exhibition in the Days of Civil Unrest

In the midst of the #MeToo and the #BlackLivesMatter movements, “cancel culture” has also emerged, asking people to withdraw support from public figures and institutions..

November 4, 2020

Gallery Glance: Haw Contemporary Re-releases Edition of Wendy Red Star’s “The Last Thanks”

Museum goers in Kansas City have had multiple opportunities to see Crow artist Wendy Red Star’s “The Four Seasons” photographic self-portraits in exhibits at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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