Billboard artworks by Warren Rosser and Jaimie Warren and a new sculptural installation by Jesse Small were to be unveiled Friday at Missouri Bank’s new Crossroads Branch, 125 Southwest Blvd.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s decision to close on Tuesdays is only one measure the museum has taken to save money and reduce operating costs. In July, The museum cut back the lighting of the Bloch Building lenses by 14 hours per week.
A new special exhibition about the railroad at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was designed for mass appeal.
The Rita Blitt sculpture installed at the now-closed Bannister Mall has a new home. Titled “Dancing,” the 26-foot-high abstracted figure of yellow-painted steel will be dedicated from 5 to 6 p.m. today in the James C. Olson Performing Arts Center Courtyard at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
New York artist Steve Mumford knows what it’s like to patrol the streets of Baghdad. He has witnessed death and suffering at military hospitals, the disrupted lives of Iraqi civilians, children caught in the crossfire.
Within days of beginning work as a staff photographer at the Prague Post in the Czech Republic, Julie Denesha was warned by her colleagues: “You have to watch out for the Gypsies.”
Veteran jazz saxophonist Ahmed Alaadeen heads up the list of recipients of the ArtsKC Fund’s latest round of inspiration grants to artists and arts professionals.
John O’Brien winces when you say it, but parts of his Dolphin gallery and framing business, newly ensconced in a renovated Butler-style building in the West Bottoms, look like a museum.
Cash-strapped ballet lovers can catch a break Friday during a one-day-only sale of tickets to the Kansas City Ballet’s fall performance.
