Traveling Giacometti exhibit coming to Nelson-Atkins in 2023
If you happen to be visiting the Seattle Art Museum before Oct. 9, 2022, you will have a chance to preview “Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure” before it lands at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in March 2023.
Many new shows open in conjunction with start of new semester. And another blowout show of fashion & adornments puts garments and diverse makers at the fore.
Nelson-Atkins Begins Charging for Docent-Led Adult Tours
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, in a move reflecting changing museum economics, has begun charging for docent-led adult tours that had been free since the museum’s earliest days.
Strange and Beautiful: The Artistic Fruits of Spanish Colonialism in the Americas
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is currently hosting a rare exhibition of 15 fascinating paintings spanning the 17th and 18th centuries of Spanish colonial rule in South America.
American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939
The tumultuous 20-year period between World War I and the beginning of World War II featured many significant social, political and economic changes throughout the world.