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Artist Rashawn Griffin explores race and identity in Nerman show

Artist Rashawn Griffin’s absorbing one-person show, “A Hole-in-the-Wall Country,” which runs through April 1 at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, features new paintings and installations and a gallery of surprise-filled collages displayed on a brilliant red-orange wall.

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Neighbors in stockyards district salute Bill Brady gallery opening

Feb 15, 10:27 PM

New York art dealer Bill Brady’s decision to open a gallery in Kansas City has been the talk of the art world for months. On Friday, the project comes to fruition with the opening of the inaugural show at the Bill Brady Gallery at 1505 Genessee St., marking a new chapter in the evolution of the stockyards district in the West Bottoms as a cultural destination.

Tattoos inspire stories told on gloves painted by Ellen Greene

Feb 1, 8:38 PM

Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig loves the idea of subverting this macho tradition. She’s found the perfect vehicle in the tattoo-inspired paintings on leather gloves by 1998 Kansas City Art Institute alum Ellen Greene. An exhibit of Greene’s gloves opens Friday at Birdies, Honig’s Crossroads lingerie shop.

Adriane Herman’s ‘Wall of Intention’ reflects human eccentricity

Mar 7, 10:16 AM

Adriane Herman exerted a creative and stimulating presence in the Kansas City art world a decade ago, when she made art from cakes and chewing gum and launched a supermarket-style “Slop Art” shop. Now on sabbatical from her teaching post at the Maine College of Art, she has come back, trailing a flurry of scraps of paper.