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April 14, 2020

KCAI Community Responds Creatively to Challenges of COVID-19

Since the Kansas City Art Institute’s closing March 12 and implementation of remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the college’s community is responding..
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April 8, 2020

Arts News: Intimate Images of a Champion

Gordon Parks, American (1912–2006). Muhammad Ali Interviewed by Reporters, London, England, 1966. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches. (courtesy of and copyright the Gordon..
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April 3, 2020

“Dark Paintings Redux by Jim Sajovic,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

Jim Sajovic created his “Dark Paintings,” eight of which now hang like specters in the closed Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, from 1991-95. They were the artist’s..
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April 2, 2020

“1009 Arts: /wilt/,” Vulpes Bastille

It was a bittersweet occasion when on March 6, the 1009 Arts organization unveiled the performance piece “/wilt/” at the Vulpes Bastille Gallery in the East Crossroads.
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March 19, 2020

Arts News: Hartman Presents His Last ‘Beyond Bounds’

Walk into any Kansas City area art collection, modest or major, and chances are you’ll find an artwork created from a vinyl LP, a silk scarf, a wood box or specific mediums in colors including ruby red, electric blue and brilliant yellow. Gold leaf and sterling silver also figure in the mix. All of these specially themed objects have a single source.
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March 17, 2020

Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking

“There was no other place like it. It was a place where all kinds of people came, worked with and accepted each other,” recalled the..
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March 17, 2020

Special Exhibition: 100 Years of Collecting | April 2, 2020 – March 7, 2021

The National WWI Museum and Memorial started collecting objects and documents directly from the war in 1920, making it the second oldest collecting institution of..
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March 10, 2020

“Marcus Cain: Borrowed Light” and “Ky Anderson: Star School,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Brooklyn-based Kansas City Art Institute alum Ky Anderson’s exhibit “Star School” is the result of a middle-of-the-night vision in which she imagined a series of paintings “filled with stars and the intricate structures used to view them.”
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March 10, 2020

Marching Toward the Singularity

The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, Kansas, hosts “Charles Lindsay: Field Station 4,” a spaced-out immersive installation that repurposes government surplus equipment into five funky multi-media sculptures.
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