Downtown arts campus holds promise for UMKC, downtown, city arts scene
Chancellor Leo Morton says having a new downtown arts campus for the UMKC Conservatory will attract great artists and great faculty members from around the world. He spoke yesterday at the announcement that the Muriel O’Brien Kauffman Foundation ...
Kauffman pledges $20 million for downtown arts campus
Against the backdrop of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Julia Irene Kauffman today announced a major grant to spur a downtown arts campus for UMKC.
The Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation today announced its pledge of $20 million ...
Museum exhibit offers insight into wishes for good fortune
Cat Shoes, 20th century. Chinese. Crepe. Gift of Miss C. F. Bieber.
Both children and adults can learn something about the visual language of good luck wishes at a new exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Secret Messages: Symbol and ...
Shakespeare audience to aim for fake mustache record
Not only characters in the play will be in disguise during Friday’s performance of As You Like It at the Shakespeare Festival. Audience members will be sporting fake mustaches – trying to set a world record.
Can local Shakespeare ...
Shakespeare’s As You Like It starts tonight in the park
Photo courtesy Heart of America Shakespeare Festival.
The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival begins tonight.
The festival will present As You Like It in Southmoreland Park on June 18 through July 7 on Tuesday through Sunday evenings at ...
Exhibit kicks off of Nelson-Atkins partnership with Roman museum
A museum in Rome is loaning this sculpture to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art this summer, as part of a cultural exchange between the two museums. Photo credit: Fauno rosso, Roman, 2nd century C.E. Red marble, 66 inches. Sovraintendenza ai Beni ...
Midtown benefit for Oklahoma tornado relief Saturday
Local musicians, artists and others will gather at the Uptown Arts Bar Saturday, June 8 for a benefit for those affected by the Oklahoma tornados.
Local musicians, artists and others will rally to keep awareness of the Oklahoma tornado devastation ...
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera exhibit opens at Nelson-Atkins
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954). Autorretrato con collar(Self-Portrait with Necklace), 1933. Oil on metal, 13 3/4 x 11 7/16inches. The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of 20th CenturyMexican Art. The Vergel Foundation. Conaculta/INBA. ...
Local museums free for military families this summer
The Toy and Miniature Museum announced today it will be among 1,800 museums nationwide with free admission this summer for those in the military and their families.
Also listed among the group in Kansas City are the American Jazz Museum, the ...
Midtown Bookshelf: “The Big Divide” helps Kansas-Missouri border history come alive
Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart live in the Volker neighborhood, just a few blocks from the state line. The historian and former TV critic have written a book about the significance of the border between Kansas and Missouri, which they ...
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