Visual Arts
Last year's big "Monet's Water Lilies" exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was a financial boon to the museum. The show's nearly 100,000 visitors bought tickets, shopped in the museum store and ate at Rozzelle Court Restaurant, boosting the museum's earned income.
Sting of recession fades for Kansas City’s art museums
The recession took a toll on Kansas City’s art museums, prompting some to mount fewer shows and others to cut staff or refrain from hiring as their endowments, investments and earned income dropped.
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Lawsuits aren’t the only answer when an artwork’s origin is questionable
May 13, 12:36 AM
When artworks in a collection turn out to be lost, stolen or fake, there are ways other than lawsuits to resolve the matter.
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Students take First Friday stage
May 1, 3:22 PM
It’s student night at First Friday in May, or at least it seems that way as galleries — established and impromptu — overflow with works by the Kansas City Art Institute’s graduating seniors.
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Nelson museum shares a curator to enhance its African galleries
Apr 28, 9:45 PM
The African galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will be undergoing a transformation in coming months. The department has a new curator, Nii Quarcoopome, whose mission is to bring new energy to the room and exhibit cases.
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Tennessee decision might finally end Fisk University art case
Apr 28, 10:18 PMFisk University in Nashville may soon be able to generate cash from its 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe. The Tennessee Supreme Court announced last week that it would let stand a ruling allowing the historically black university to complete a $30 million deal to sell a 50 percent stake in the collection to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Ark.
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Shared expressions, one show in ‘Shared Space’ at Leopold Gallery
Apr 25, 7:16 PM
“Shared Space” presents an unlikely convergence of work by two artists who have shared a studio for four years. The contrast between Derrick Breidenthal’s luminous oil-on-panel compositions and Spencer Schubert’s cast aluminum figurative sculpture is striking. Yet a connection between the two artists’ works reveals itself in this show at the Leopold Gallery.
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‘Oklahoma City’ questions whether justice was served after bombing
Apr 22, 7:48 AM
On April 19, 1995, a massive explosion in downtown Oklahoma City destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, home to government agencies, killing 168 people. Law enforcement agencies eventually arrested and punished Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, not only solving a heinous crime but also putting a gaping hole in the domestic terrorist movement. End of story, right?
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