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March 5, 2018

Honors: Armin Mühsam

On the heels of an exhibit of small collages at Haw Contemporary last November, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam is poised to open a solo museum show. “Armin Mühsam: Archipeinture” opens March 23 at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph. The exhibit, of small sculptures and paintings on paper populated by geometric motifs, was organized by the museum’s executive director, Brett Knappe.
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March 5, 2018

Emerging Artists in the Spotlight – Let Your Freak Flag Fly at Alter: Art Space

It’s been called Big Fun Art and it’s making major waves throughout the art world. Kansas City has a fresh new venue for this multidisciplinary ain’t-nothin’-but-a-party art movement — that is, if you can find it. Enter Alter: Art Space, quite literally birthed last summer in the West Bottoms by recent Kansas City Art Institute graduates, Boi Boy and Bo Hubbard, who proudly refer to themselves as its “moms.”
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March 2, 2018

Robert Fletcher: A Star Among Stars, Now Living in KC

What do Shakespeare, Jack Palance and yak hair all have in common? Robert Fletcher, legendary set and costume designer for stage, television and movies, now living in Kansas City.
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March 2, 2018

“Dannielle Tegeder – Chroma Machine Suite: Forecasting Fault Lines in the Cosmos,” H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute

“Chroma Machine Suite: Forecasting Fault Lines in the Cosmos,” a dynamic, multi-media exhibition by New York abstractionist Dannielle Tegeder at the H&R Block Artspace, showcases..
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March 2, 2018

Arts News: Haw Contemporary Expanding to Crossroads

Haw Contemporary, which filled a void when John O’Brien shut down his Dolphin gallery in the West Bottoms, is expanding into a Crossroads building that..
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March 1, 2018

Meet the Artists: The Charlotte Street Foundation’s 2017-18 Studio Residency Program

Behind the shiny corporate façade of Town Pavilion in downtown KC, a warren of former office spaces six floors above street level offers a round-the-clock..
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March 1, 2018

“Caroline Colby: Known, Knowing and Unknown” at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center

Self-preservation and the challenge of relationships are underlying themes of “Known, Knowing and Unknown,” a one-person show by Caroline Colby at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center...
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March 1, 2018

Critically Acclaimed Show of Cuban Printmaker Stops at Kemper Museum

After critically acclaimed stops at UCLA’s Fowler Museum and New York’s El Museo del Barrio, “Nkame: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón (1967-1999)” is now on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. In seductively powerful compositions, Ayón magnetizes with bold, yet ethereal, mask-like human and animal forms that share an enigmatic narrative, most often related to human questioning or suffering.
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March 1, 2018

Emerging Artists in the Spotlight: Foxes in the Fortress

What’s an emerging artist in Kansas City to do after art school? Caranne Camarena, like so many of her fellow Kansas City Art Institute painting majors circa 2012, had to decide: Stay or go. Return to hometown XYZ? Embark for coastal art capitals or Chicago? Maybe grad school? Stick it out in KC with a group of friends and splash into the frothy local scene? About halfway through her senior year, Camarena and her non-artist parents were kicking around ideas for real estate investment.
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