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July 8, 2019

2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe

These are just a few of the top talents presenting outdoor installations and performances as part of this year’s Art in the Loop, organized around the theme Make/Believe.

July 8, 2019

Honors: Jason Needham

For Jason Needham, creating art nowadays is all about the journey. What began as a self-imposed challenge for the Kansas City artist during his time as a stay-at-home parent has become the mainstay of his creative output. Needham’s early career focused on comic-style Pop Art paintings, a process he describes as “just having an idea and executing it.

July 5, 2019

A Magician in Porcelain: Victor Babu (1936 – 2019)

Victor Babu looked nothing like his art. Big and burly, with a voice that could only have been birthed in the Bronx, Babu created porcelain..

July 5, 2019

See Hear: Rockin’ the Nelson: On Andy Goldsworthy’s Moveable Wall

The Goldsworthy wall progresses, inch by inch, stone by stone. At least that was the plan for this summer. The British artist was scheduled to..

July 3, 2019

In Memoriam: Remembering Morton Sosland

I had the great pleasure of knowing Morton Sosland, publisher and editor, prominent civic leader, fundraiser and philanthropist, who died April 25 at the age of 93.

July 2, 2019

Hidden Talents: A Singer, A Critic and an Artist Reveal Their Creative Alter Egos

For 33 years with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, chorister Mary Lou Pagano has thrived on the transcendental potential of two-way communication. “When you’re performing, you’re communicating with an audience, and that audience is communicating back with their laughter and clapping,” Pagano says.

June 27, 2019

“John Ferry: Mid-Century Modern” and “Nora Othic: Animal Show,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

For a contemplative look at humanity through an anthropological lens, two new exhibitions at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art are rich fodder for imagination and introspection...

June 24, 2019

“Amalgam: Resident Exhibition 2019,” Belger Crane Yard Gallery

Every year the Belger Crane Yard Gallery invites artists who have been awarded residencies in one of their various programs to be part of a..

June 17, 2019

“Glyneisha Johnson: Bo͝ozəm,” Haw Contemporary Crossroads

The esteemed poet, essayist and playwright Elizabeth Alexander defines “the black interior” as “black life and creativity behind the public face of stereotype and limited..

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