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"Settlement"
Dates: Aug. 14, 2009-Mar. 28, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
At some point, the organic curves of nature invariably run up against the hard edges of humanity. Whether seen as progress or destruction, that encounter becomes a signpost of the pioneer spirit in humankind and marks a contrast between the manufact...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Magnificent Gifts for the 75th"
Dates: Feb. 13-Apr. 4 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
"Magnificent Gifts for the 75th" marks the culmination of the Nelson-Atkins' 75th Anniversary year. Featuring 130 of the nearly 400 gifts and promised gifts made in honor of this momentous occasion, the exhibition includes an extraordinary group of ...
Admission: $8 adults, $7 seniors, $5 students
Type: Exhibits,Major Events
"Flourishing Patterns: Textiles from Persia and Europe"
Dates: Feb. 24-Aug. 22 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
In the 17th century, contact between Europe, the Middle East and Eastern Asia disseminated ideas, colors, patterns and textiles.
Although floral designs were widely made elsewhere, no other workshops could emulate Persian weaving. The Persian ar...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"The Poetics of Space"
Dates: Apr. 10, 2009-Apr. 11, 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,Free Events
"Volunteer Voices"
Dates: Dec. 11, 2009-May 9, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
For this exhibition, volunteers at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art were asked to select “that's my favorite work” from the Museum's collection. The result, Volunteer Voices: Selections from the Collection of the Kemper Museum, draws together s...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Venice. 3 Visions in Glass"
Dates: Mar. 6-Aug. 5 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana explores recent pieces by three of the leading artists working in glass today. Collaborating with workshops on the island of Murano, a historic glass-making center in Venice, these artists hav...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Exploring Egypt: 19th Century Expeditionary Photography"
Dates: Mar. 6-Jul. 18 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo.
"Exploring Egypt" will present recent acquisitions to the permanent collection of the 19th century photographic rediscovery of Egypt (1845-1860s). It is through these early photographs that people in the western world obtained their first view of th...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"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
"Gestures, Fields and Rising Suns"
Dates: Apr. 17, 2009-Jun. 6, 2010 | Location: Country Club Plaza Area | Venue: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Drawn from the Kemper Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition comprises works by a handful of artists who shaped the postwar American aesthetic of the 20th century. Early modernists such as Hans Hofmann and John Marin were pivotal in the deve...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"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
"Fairy Tale Village"
Dates: Feb. 6-Apr. 25 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.
Children's tales come to life as you walk into a world of make-believe to interact with characters from favorite stories and rhymes. Relive the adventure of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," run safely inside the "Three Little Pigs" brick house, str...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collections of the Missouri State Archives"
Dates: Feb. 9-May 29 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National Archives at Kansas City, 400 West Pershing Road, Kansas City, Mo.
On February 9, 2010, the National Archives at Kansas City will open Mapping Missouri: Maps from the Collection of the Missouri State Archives which features examples of cartography from the collections of the Missouri State Archives and the National...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race"
Dates: Mar. 16-Jun. 10 | Location: Crown Center Area | Venue: National Archives, 400 W Pershing Rd., Kansas City, Mo.
An exhibition on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Deadly Medicine" examines how Nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help leg...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Ian Davis: Faith in the Future"
Dates: Feb. 26-Jun. 19 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Kemper at the Crossroads, 33 W. 19th St, Kansas City, Mo.
In Ian Davis's paintings, masses of men—all identically dressed in business suits—stand in ambiguous formations. These mysterious narratives painted on canvas place them variously beside a dam, waiting in a packed auditorium or milling about a galle...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits,Free Events
"Women in Jazz"
Dates: Mar. 5-May 23 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: American Jazz Museum, Changing Gallery, 1616 E 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
The exhibit will include commissioned paintings by noted Kansas City visual artist Janet Kuemmertein. Her work honors eleven celebrated Kansas City women artists including Oleta Adams, Karrin Allyson, Queen Bey, Deborah Brown, Pearl Thuston Brown, C...
Admission: FREE
Type: Exhibits
"The Orthostatic Tolerance"
Dates: Feb. 5-Apr. 3 | Location: Downtown/Conv Center Area | Venue: Grand Arts, 1819 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, Mo.
Grand Arts presents a new project by Bahamian-born, New York-based artist Tavares Strachan. This solo exhibition opens at Grand Arts on Friday, February 5th, 2010 with an opening reception from 6-9pm, and will be on view through April 3rd, 2010. T...
Admission: Free
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
"Orchids & Ferns"
Dates: Mar. 13-May 9 | Location: East | Venue: Powell Gardens, 1609 NW US Highway 50, Kingsville, Mo.
Powell Gardens' exquisite orchid collection goes on display alongside a variety of woodland ferns in the conservatory. Visitors also can purchase their own orchids from Bird's Botanicals throughout the exhibit. ...
Admission: Before Apr. 1: $7 adults, $6 seniors, $3 children 5-12. Beginning Apr. 1: $9.50 adult, $8.50 senior and $4 children 5-12.
Type: Exhibits