Marilyn Carbonell, the popular and personable head of Library Services at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s Spencer Art Reference Library, is leaving the post she began in 2006 to enjoy a well-earned retirement.
Arts News: Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit Features Basque Master
Our galactic bodies share chemical elements with steel, which may, in some mystical way, draw us closer to the fundamental nature of Spanish Basque artist Eduardo Chillida’s fire-forged steel sculptures.
Nelson-Atkins Displays Nick Cave’s Provocative “Property” Sculpture
Two years ago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art acquired Property, a major work by Kansas City Art Institute graduate and world-renowned artist Nick Cave.
Nelson-Atkins Lecture Series Features the “Most Innovative Architecture Firm in the World”
Kansas City’s skyline is ever-changing. The Mary Atkins Lecture Series at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art offers an annual forum for looking at the evolution of architecture here and abroad.