KC STUDIO

May 10, 2019

Arts News: Thomas Hart Benton Lithographs Inspire a New Book of Stories

Most of us have experienced the distinct pleasure of scrutinizing a work of art in person or studying a printed version in a book.

May 9, 2019

Summer Sizzles at the Conservatory

Although the academic year is winding down, the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance is heating up for an exciting summer of music, dance, composition..

May 9, 2019

See Hear: Do We Have What it Takes to be a City of Jazz?

Early this year, “Downbeat” magazine announced a global list of 25 cities where jazz “thrives.” Kansas City, alas, failed to make the cut. A friend..

May 9, 2019

Andy Goldsworthy: Walking Wall

Andy Goldsworthy (photo by Chris George) “Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where..

May 8, 2019

Kauffman Center Celebrates Local Youth Performers and Unique Kauffman Center Presents Performances

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts welcomes a variety of audiences with different styles, interests and passions. The Center provides diverse programming for all ages..

May 8, 2019

Arts News: Spinning Tree Finds a Home

Spinning Tree Theatre, a not-for-profit company known for quality work and staging shows new to Kansas City audiences, has found a new home: the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center.The center, which houses a small theater as well as the Johnson County Museum, is where the theater company founded by Andrew Grayman-Parkhurst and Michael Grayman-Parkhurst will stage its ninth season.

May 8, 2019

Fear and Loathing in Kansas City

Amid the infighting, flesh pressing and delegate swapping of our country’s last contested political convention — the Republicans’ Ford-vs.-Reagan runoff in Kansas City in 1976 — British illustrator Ralph Steadman roamed Kemper Arena and the surrounding West Bottoms for his own inimitable take on American history.

May 7, 2019

Concert to Come | Celebrating the Contributions of Musica Vocale’s Arnold Epley

Arnold Epley has devoted nearly half his life to the musical culture of Kansas City and he’s not finished yet. “I used to say, if you wake me up at 3 a.m. and shake me and ask, ‘What do you do?’ I would say, ‘I’m a singer,’” said Epley. Epley turns 80 years old May 18.

May 6, 2019

“Roger Shimomura: American Muse,” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art

With more than 100 paintings, and subject matter that unabashedly juxtaposes politics and pop culture with the personal, Roger Shimomura blows the roof off Sherry..