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"Wolfgang Laib: Without Place - Without Time - Without Body"
Dates: Sept. 26, 2009-Jan.17, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Wolfgang Laib is known for his Pollen Fields, Milkstones, Rice Houses, Ziggurats and more, and many world-wide exhibitions including a retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum in 2001 acknowledge his importance. "Without Place - Without Time - Without ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Major Events
"The Poetics of Space"
Dates: Apr. 10, 2009-Mar. 14, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's book La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), this exhibition features photographs from the Kemper Museum's permanent collection that focus on the spatial dynamics of our architectural ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry"
Dates: Sep. 17-Nov. 29 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
The artwork by the Wyeth family, America's iconic art family, will be the focus of the exhibition WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry this fall at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Together, the artists of the Wyeth family-N. C. Wyeth, Andrew ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood"
Dates: Sept. 26, 2009-Feb. 21, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Since photography's inception in 1839, children have been popular subjects for the camera. We look to pictures of children as collective memories of childhood itself-a phase of life to which we can never return. This exhibition explores our fascinat...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Major Events
"Starr Miniature Collection: The Fashionable Sitter"
Dates: Jun. 13, 2009-Jan.10, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Still Life: 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings"
Dates: Jun. 13, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Asian Influence on American Ceramics"
Dates: Jun. 9, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is internationally recognized for its outstanding collection of more than 33,500 objects. From ancient times to modern day, this encyclopedic museum is one of the best in the country, offering visitors the opportunity...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Worldly Luxuries: Repetition in Renaissance Textiles"
Dates: Aug. 26, 2009-Feb. 21, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Since photography's inception in 1839, children have been popular subjects for the camera. We look to pictures of children as collective memories of childhood itself—a phase of life to which we can never return. This exhibition explores our fascinat...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"From Shoals in Time"
Dates: Dec. 4-Jan. 20 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
This exhibit, featuring very rare and unique shells from the Philippines, reveals the unseen architecture and poetic symmetry of both land and sea shells. Through photographs, giant x-ray prints, and reconstructed "seascapes," the artist/collector ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Celebrating 50 Fabulous Years with America's Favorite Doll"
Dates: Nov. 14, 2009-Dec. 31, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Toy & Miniature Museum, 5235 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
Fashion diva, career girl, and friend, Barbie® defines girlhood like no other doll. Celebrate her 50th birthday with a look back at her early years and learn how she became an international icon!...
Admission: $6 adults, $5 seniors and students, $4 for children 5-12.
Type: Exhibits
"Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life & Legends"
Dates: Oct. 2, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, Bank of America Grand Gallery, 30 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
His Pop sensibility broke the traditional boundaries between art, business and life. "Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art," he proclaimed. As the exhibition proves, the "Prince of Pop" was a master at both art and business, ma...
Admission: $12 adults, $8 children 3-12, children 2 and under are free.
Type: Exhibits,Major Events
"It’s Big: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the National Archives and Records Administration"
Dates: May 22, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: The National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
This exhibition will feature big documents, big events, big personalities, and big ideas from the region's history. Organized by the National Archives at Kansas City, "It's Big" features pieces of American history including: audio clips from the FB...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Kansas-Nebraska Act"
Dates: Jul. 6, 2009-Jan. 23, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act which examines the "Bleeding Kansas" era between 1854 and 1861 and the approach of the Civil War. The exhibit will feature the original Act, on loan from Washington, D.C. for a limited time.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum"
Dates: Sept. 1, 2009-Aug. 29, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St. Kansas City, Mo.
The color and drama of the Great War has been captured in "The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum." The exhibition is located in the National World War I Museum's Exhibit Hall, an original 1926 bui...
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $4 students, children under 6 are free.
Type: Exhibits
"Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace"
Dates: Sept. 1-Nov. 29 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St. Kansas City, Mo.
"Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace" presents Charles M. Schulz's lovable beagle, Snoopy, as his alter ego, the Flying Ace. The exhibit showcases 42 of Snoopy's most exciting adventures in his transformed doghouse - now a Sopwith Camel airplane - ...
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $4 students, children under 6 are free.
Type: Exhibits
"Gary Cooper Oscar"
Dates: Sept. 1-Nov. 29 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W 26th St., Kansas City, Mo.
Gary Cooper was the only person that Alvin York trusted to portray his story from the Great War. York insisted that if Cooper was not part of the movie he would not authorize the film. Cooper's 1941 portrayal of the World War I hero is considered on...
Admission: $4 - $8
Type: Exhibits
"Chocolate:The Exhibition"
Dates: Oct. 16, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo.
Developed by The Field Museum in Chicago, this exhibit takes visitors on a delicious journey through the history of chocolate beginning in the rainforest with the cacao tree....
Admission: $9.50 adults, $7 children
Type: Exhibits,Major Events
Mark Raynes "Celestial Peepshow"
Dates: Nov. 6-27 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: {:m Gallery, 2014 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
Photography-An Erotic Look at the Moon...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"One Long Moment"
Dates: Dec. 4-31 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Digital Labrador, 125 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
A collection of photographs shot primarily in Europe, but includes photos taken in and around Kansas City by Tom Manning. The title, like the images, captures the quiet balance and stillness visible in so many of these fine prints. ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"The Long Family & Corinthian Hall"
Dates: Jan. 1- Dec. 31 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall, 3218 Gladstone Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
The story of the Long family and their historic home, Corinthian Hall, is told in this informative exhibit, displayed on the grounds of the Museum. The free exhibit consists of eight panels detailing the Long family's involvement in historic Northea...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"The Oxford Project"
Dates: Oct. 2-Dec. 31 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Belger Arts Center, 2100 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mo.
Feldstein photographed 670 of the 676 residents of Oxford in 1984. In 2005 he shot new portraits, and this time a writer friend of Feldstein's, Stephen Bloom, interviewed dozens of the subjects in the pictures. Bloom says, "The Oxford Project is a n...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Viata" Life in Romania, a photo essay by Andrea Nigh
Dates: Nov. 6-28 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Hilliard Gallery, 404 E 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
This show is simply called "Viata," the Romanian word for life. It is the best word to describe the Romanian people and their culture. In the face of poor living conditions and post communist regime, they are still a vibrant, happy and resilient peo...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Ecstatic Resistance"
Dates: Nov. 13-16 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Grand Arts, 1819 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
A group show curated by Emily Roysdon. The exhibition and correspondent events include several commissioned works by Sharon Hayes, My Barbarian, Jeanine Oleson, A.L. Steiner, and will host performances and symposia by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Dean Spade ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Looking West"
Dates: Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 2,2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
New Paintings of Land, Light, and Water...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Habitat"
Dates: Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 2, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, 2004 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Photographs ...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
William Rainey "Magic Show"
Dates: Nov. 6-Dec. 1 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Blue Gallery, 118 Southwest Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Solo Exhibition...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Looking East"
Dates: Oct. 2, 2009-Jan. 1, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, 2020 Baltimore Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
Featured artists include : Liu Hong, Sheng Qi, Yang Qian, Guo Wei, Gao Xiaowu, Huang Yan, Feng Zhengjie...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Jeremiah Ariaz "Frontier "
Dates: Dec. 4-Jan. 7 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: La Esquina, 1000 W 25th St., Kansas City, Mo.
The exhibition features a new three projection video installation, Frontier, which was filmed in rural Kansas. Shot by three cameras aligned side by side, the piece presents a panoramic view of open sky and prairie, amidst which the artist attempts...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World"
Dates: Oct. 16, 2009-Feb. 19, 2010 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: American Jazz Museum, 1616 E 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
A photo exhibit featuring over 100 images of jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie and Benny Goodman as they traveled the world on behalf of the U.S. State Department. The photographs, which span the m...
Admission: Free
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Capture the Moment: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographs"
Dates: Nov. 21, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, 500 W Hwy. 24, Independence, Mo.
Of the millions of photographs seen in newspapers each year, only two Pulitzer photography prizes are given-one for spot or breaking news and the other for feature photography. Capture the Moment includes all of the winning images starting in 1942-t...
Admission: $8 for adults, $7 for seniors 65 and older, $3 for children ages 6-15, free for children 5 years and under
Type: Exhibits
"Puppets: Depression thru Recession"
Dates: Sept. 10, 2009-Jul. 31, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Puppetry Arts Institute, 11025 E Winner Rd, Independence, Mo.
Marionettes made by W.P.A artists working at the Nelson-Atkins museum from 1934 thru 1937. Ray Moore, Puppet Designer from TN marionettes and hand puppets and Needle-Felted puppets made by Pam Corcoran of WI....
Admission: $3. adults $1.50 under 16.
Type: Exhibits
"Reflections of Christ"
Dates: Sep. 1, 2009-Jan. 31, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Mormon Visitors Center, 937 W Walnut, Independence Mo.
Special collection of 27 pictures and photographs depicting the life of Jesus Christ.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
Independence Young Matrons 50th Annual Holly & Mistletoe Tours
Dates: Dec. 3, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 | Location: East | Venue: Independence Square, 111 E Maple Ave., Independence, Mo.
Tour five Eastern Jackson County homes and the Messiah Lutheran Church, all decorated for the holidays. The Sweet Shop (at the church) will feature holiday treats, specialty baskets, Independence Young Matrons cookbooks and hand crafted historic hou...
Admission: $10 in advance, $12 the door.
Type: Exhibits,Holiday Activities
"Nativities From Around the World"
Dates: Nov. 14-Dec. 23 | Location: East | Venue: Community of Christ Temple, 201 W River Blvd., Independence, Mo.
Unique and handcrafted nativities and creches from around the world on display....
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Holiday Activities
"Christmas with the Trumans"
Dates: Nov. 15-Jan. 8 | Location: East | Venue: Harry S. Truman Home, 223 N Main St., Independence, Mo.
Exhibit includes toys, photographs, wrapping paper, Christmas cards and decorations which belonged to the Truman family. ...
Admission: Free
Type: Exhibits,Free Events,Holiday Activities
Mark Cowardin's "From the Ground Up"
Dates: Nov. 8-Jan. 3 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom, 5500 W 123rd St., Overland Park, Kan.
Within the space of home exists an environment where simple, everyday objects and architecture shape our social and individual identities via memory, functionality, nostalgia and symbolic ritual. Our collective understanding of this place is periodi...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
ImageMakers Photo Club Exhibit
Dates: Nov. 13-Dec. 2 | Location: Southwest | Venue: Gardner Library, 127 E Shawnee St., Gardner, Kan.
About the artist: Image Makers is a Blue Springs photography club dedicated to having fun and improving members' image making interest. We attempt to capture a moment in time that conveys feelings and emotions that can be enjoyed by all.
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Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"KidScape"
Dates: Jan. 2, 2009-Jan. 2, 2011 | Location: West | Venue: Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, Kan.
Welcome to KidScape, the museum's newest hands-on exhibit for kids ages 3-9. Designed to look like a suburban streetscape, KidScape immerses children into a colorful, exciting environment where they can learn about community and meet some of Johnson...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"The Portrait Show"
Dates: Dec. 4, 2009-Jan. 22, 2010 | Location: West | Venue: Carnegie Arts Center, 601 S 5th St., Leavenworth, Kan.
Martin Leo Pyle grew up in Kansas City, Missouri in a large family of ten. Pyle has always enjoyed art, and as a budding artist had the opportunity to take several art enrichment classes at the Kansas City Art Institute. He later attended Avila Un...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
Kansas State University Painting Society
Dates: Nov. 6-28 | Location: West | Venue: Carnegie Arts Center, 601 S 5th St., Leavenworth, Kan.
This November, the walls of the Stacks Gallery at the Carnegie Arts Center will be graced by the works of the Kansas State University Painting Society. The Kansas State University Painting Society is comprised of undergraduate students interested i...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits