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June 24, 2024

“Read the Room,” Charlotte Street

The enduring appeal of comics dwells in the art form’s fundamental power of sequential imagery to tell any story by anyone who has something to say.
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June 11, 2024

“Rosa Leff: Storydwelling,” Lawrence Arts Center

Rosa Leff’s absorbing exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center, “Storydwelling,” shines welcome light on Lawrence’s Black history.
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June 4, 2024

Jessica May: ‘Art is how you know you’re in community’

More than a decade ago Jessica May, then curator of contemporary and modern art at Maine’s Portland Museum of Art, first visited Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City.
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June 3, 2024

A show of intellectual and creative force

Imagination and perspective stretches into fresh forms in his new exhibition, “AnticKS & MOdels + My theater to your eyes: Kahlil Robert Irving,” at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
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May 29, 2024

‘Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See’

Exhibit at the Spencer Museum revisits the murder and its aftermath.
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May 21, 2024

Artist Pages | Jacob Lawrence: “The Legend of John Brown”

In 1947, Jacob Lawrence, the iconic Black artist most widely known for his 60-panel “The Migration Series” (1940-41), created a series of 22 works reflecting upon the legendary Kansas abolitionist John Brown.
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May 20, 2024

See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Long down for the count, the 150-year-old Sauer Castle is on the way to a rebirth

A century and a half after German immigrant Anton Sauer built a palatial residence on a bluff near the Kansas River, its new owner is showing a visitor the rubble and the glory that define the historic home’s present and future.
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May 15, 2024

Julius A. Karash on Business and the Arts | Monarca Art Space: Helping artist entrepreneurs take wing

The incident that led Vania Soto to an artistic/entrepreneurial career occurred when, at the age of 13, she and her family were dining in an East Tennessee Mexican restaurant.
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May 14, 2024

“Tom Jones,” “John Hitchcock,” “Emily Arthur,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

Tom Jones, John Hitchcock, and Emily Arthur, artists showing now at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, express complex facets of Native American culture.
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