Kira Perov | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

"The Raft" (2004), a color high-definition video projection by Bill Viola, is now on view in the Bloch Building Project Space at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artist calls the work, in which a group of urban dwellers is engulfed by a deluge, "a metaphor for today's world."

Humanity adrift in Bill Viola’s ‘The Raft’

From Shirin Neshat’s “Fervor” to William Kentridge’s “Felix in Exile,” Kansas City has been exposed to a lot of great video art over the past decade or so.

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