Kansas City Art Events

Events

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Wolfgang Laib's Without Place-Without Time-Without Body Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Every week Thursday from Thu., October 1 until Sun., January 17, 10:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	Midtown	Art
Critics have plenty of labels for Wolfgang Laib: shaman, ascetic, mystic. He would be the Jedi master of modern minimalist sculpture, if the Germans went in for glibness. Let's just call him a very patient man, one with a singular vision. How patient? His new installation at the Nelson-Atkins... More >>

WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Thu., September 17 until Sun., November 29, 10:00am-4:00pm more dates/times	Westport	Art
As if to prove that the Kennedys aren't the only dynastic family with a recently deceased patriarch, the new exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick Boulevard, 816-753-5784), Wyeth: Three Generations of Artistry, opens today. Andrew Wyeth, the most well-known and most... More >>

Big Shots: Andy Warhol, Celebrity Culture, and the 1980s Spencer Museum of Art	Every week Thursday from Thu., August 20 until Sun., December 13, 10:00am-8:00pm more dates/times	Lawrence	Art Museum Exhibits & Events
Whether you think Andy Warhol was a genius or a fraud, there's no denying his savant's intuition for celebrity and its perception. Warhol, who would have turned 81 this month, takes over the Spencer Museum of Art (1301 Mississippi, on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence) today with the... More >>

Saving the Little Brown Monkey: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey Jewish Community Center	Daily from Wed., October 21 until Tue., December 1	Leawood	Art Literary Events
A collection of watercolor paintings and archival images about the creators of Curious George, the iconic children's book character and their escape from France during the German invasion in 1940 is on display at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. More >>

Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace National World War I Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., September 1 until Sun., November 29, 10:00am-5:00pm	Midtown	Art History Museum Exhibits & Events
Bill Watterson, the reclusive artist who drew the beloved newspaper strip Calvin and Hobbes, was not, according to comic-book artist Dan Clowes, "fit to hold Charles Schulz's jock strap" back when Schulz was in his prime. During Schulz's midcareer creative renaissance, both he and his Peanuts... More >>

KC's Art Flea Market 1522 Holmes	Every week Saturday from Sat., May 2 until Sat., December 19, 10:00am-5:00pm	Downtown	Art
Every Saturday, local artists peddle original works for $1 to $50. Get incredible deals on one of a kind clothing, jewelry, fine art, gourmet food, handmade items, handbags, antiques, accessories, kitsch, vintage finds and more. More >>

A Painter's Pad Thomas Hart Benton Home	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am-4:00pm	Westport	Art
Thomas Hart Benton moved to Kansas City in 1935 to teach at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he produced the predictably controversial and indisputably sexxxy "Persephone," an American regionalist interpretation of the mythical story of the goddess of fertility. The work now hangs at the... More >>

The Oxford Project Belger Arts Center	Every week Saturday from Sat., October 3 until Thu., December 31, 12:00pm-4:00pm more dates/times	Midtown	Art Literary Events
Certain ideas are stunningly perfect in their simplicity. The Oxford Project is one of these. In 1984, photographer and University of Iowa professor Peter Feldstein photographed roughly 670 residents of Oxford, Iowa — virtually the rural community's entire population. He returned in 2005... More >>

Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Every week Thursday from Thu., October 1 until Sun., February 21, 10:00am-9:00pm more dates/times	Midtown	Art
It may be a singularly American phenomenon, but there's no way a museum opens a photo exhibit exploring the complexity of youth and innocence without considering who's gonna cry pedophilia. Particularly when the lead image is the work of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), a brilliant... More >>

Interchange Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art	Daily from Tue., April 7 until Fri., December 4	Westport	Art
Every month, we seem to come back around to discussion of Kansas City's outsized influence on the art world. A small media market in many ways, this town has for many years boasted an arts community with deep roots (and benefactors with deep pockets). And it's also true that artists are... More >>

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Print Room Open Spencer Museum of Art	Every week Friday, 10:00am-12:00pm more dates/times	Lawrence	Art

Permanent Collection Highlights Walk-in Tour Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 11:00am more dates/times	Midtown	Art Museum Exhibits & Events

39th Street Artwalk Prospero's Books	Third Friday of every month	Westport	Art

One-Year Anniversary Co-Op Art Gallery	Sat., November 21	South Johnson County	Art

Holiday Trunk Show: Functional Textiles by Joscelyn Himes Blue Gallery	Sat., November 21, 11:00am-3:00pm	Midtown	Art Shopping

Point&Shoot: Amsterdam: 1996: Justin Nicholson Bourgeois Pig	Sun., November 22, 7:00pm-9:00pm	Lawrence	Art

Mayul Tibetan School Photo Benefit Sale & Lecture University of Kansas	Mon., November 23, 5:30pm	Lawrence	Art Cultural Events

Luminary Walk Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Fri., November 27, 5:00pm-9:00pm	Midtown	Art Family Events Outdoors

Bizarre Bazaar Lawrence Arts Center	Sat., November 28, 9:00am-5:00pm	Lawrence	Art Craft Events Shopping

Locals Only ScionLab	Sun., December 6	Downtown	Art Music

Every Picture Tells a Story Film Contest Just Off Broadway Theatre	Sat., December 19, 7:00pm	Midtown	Art Film

Mary Atkins Lecture Series Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium	Thu., January 28, 6:00pm	Westport	Art Lectures

Current Perspectives: Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren, and Andrzej Zielinski Epperson Auditorium	Thu., February 4, 7:00pm	Westport	Art Lectures

Let's Paint TV Urban Culture Project Space	Fri., November 20, 6:00pm-9:00pm more dates/times	Downtown	Art