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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art presents Gifts of Art: 2019 Acquisitions

February 28, 2020 - October 11, 2020
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.
Kansas City, Missouri 64111

In 2019, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art began celebration of twenty-five years of extraordinary collecting, exhibitions, and programs. As the only collecting contemporary art museum in the state of Missouri, Kemper Museum is grateful to those who have helped grow and enhance the Permanent Collection through generous gifts of art. The exhibition, Gifts of Art:…

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Belger Crane Yard Studios presents Forever in Your Debt

March 6, 2020 - May 2, 2020
Belger Crane Yard Studios, 2011 Tracy Ave
Kansas City, Missouri 64108

Forever in Your Debt features a floor installation of 600 6” stoneware bowls, some of which contain loose change, and 3 large mixed-media sheets composed of dollar bills, watercolor, gouache, graphite and resin. Through symbol, metaphor and collective action, Forever in Your Debt references the U.S. student loan debt, totaling over 1.5 trillion dollars and…

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Perfectly Imperfect

March 13, 2020 - January 31, 2021
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111 United States

The exhibition Perfectly Imperfect: Cranach, Dürer and the Renaissance Nude will feature a selection of prints and paintings drawn primarily from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Two significant loans from the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Linda Hall Library will provide a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of these…

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Formed from Fire: Enamel Portrait Miniatures

March 27, 2020 - March 28, 2021
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111 United States

Portrait miniatures are intimate tokens of love, loss, allegiance, and affection exchanged between friends. The earliest examples were painted in watercolor on vellum (animal skin). By the 1600s, new techniques of painting enamels facilitated an artist’s ability to paint delicate portraits resembling tiny oil paintings. They offered a robust alternative to watercolor on ivory or…

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Encore Degas! Ballet, Movement, and Fashion

March 27, 2020 - March 28, 2021
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111 United States

At the turn of the twentieth century, the circumstances of a changing modern world were visible on the stage of the Paris ballet. Social classes mixed in this public setting, where some of the city’s poorest young women pirouetted across the stage for paying audiences. The dancers’ internationally influenced costumes often reflected larger cultural exchanges.…

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking

March 28, 2020 - August 2, 2020
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111 United States

Master Printer Robert Blackburn (1920–2003) made a tremendous impact on printmaking in the United States. Over a career that spanned six decades, his avant-garde ideas propelled American modernism forward and affirmed printmaking as fine art. Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking situates Blackburn beside his teachers, friends, and collaborators with whom he engaged throughout his…

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Green Day’s American Idiot

April 3, 2020 @ 8:00 PM - April 26, 2020 @ 10:00 PM CDT

The Grammy Award and two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical Green Day's AMERICAN IDIOT, based on the multi-platinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it's never gone before. This high-octane show includes every song from Green Day's album, American Idiot, as well as several songs from its follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.

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Disney’s ALADDIN

April 15, 2020 @ 12:00 AM - April 26, 2020 @ 12:00 AM CDT
Kansas City Music Hall, 301 W 13th St.
Kansas City, MO 64105

A WHOLE NEW WORLD Discover a whole new world at Disney’s ALADDIN, the hit Broadway musical. From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of ALADDIN, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It’s an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the…

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