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Kansas City artist Cody Critcheloe seeks extras to be part of the last scene of his new movie, “Fool’s Gold,” which is scheduled to open at Grand Arts this fall.
If you were appalled by the treatment of Indian children portrayed in the hit movie “Slumdog Millionaire,” a new photography exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will break your heart. Called “Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh,” the exhibit presents an album of pain.
From the election of President Barack Obama to the recent death of Michael Jackson, the idea of race in American society never seems to be far from our minds. So a new exhibit at the Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace presents an opportunity to provoke discussion and explore just what it is we’re thinking about.
If you’re heading to Chicago this summer to see the Art Institute’s new modern wing, make time for a stop at the Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s your last chance to see the big survey exhibit of acclaimed Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson that opened in San Francisco in 2007 and continued to New York and Dallas. The show will make its final stop in Sydney, Australia.
The search for a new Nelson-Atkins director ratchets up a notch next month, when trustees will hire an executive search firm to scour the field for candidates. Based on interviews with art world insiders, here’s a speculative lineup of potential candidates.
This time next year a new director will be leading the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, following the June 2010 retirement of Marc Wilson. Wilson’s successor will be the fifth person to hold the post since the museum opened in 1933, and the search committee, led by museum board member Lou Smith, is proceeding with care and thoroughness.