Event Calendar 
SECOND FRIDAY TO MARCH 20(0)
Review Studios Exhibition Space, the Dolphin and more tonight, plus weekend visual art events and a look ahead at Third Friday.
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EVENTS THIS WEEK, TO SECOND FRIDAY
Second Friday starts Thursday in Warrensburg at the Gallery of Art & Design at UCM and continues at Review Studios Exhibition Space on Friday, along with openings that night at the Dolphin and in KCK. This week, visiting artist Santiago Cucullu welcomes your visit at the Salina Art Center. Read more for Cory Imig, Garry Noland, Jose Faus, and Stuart Horodner.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Kerry James Marshall is in town — if you are in or willing to get to Salina, Wichita or Lawrence, Kansas, this week; Kansas City’s Crossroads Art District is loaded with new exhibitions, and we’ve included other openings in regional galleries for this coming week, including by Review Studios artists Barry Anderson and Davin Watne.
FOURTH/FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
In the Kansas City metro area, two main openings compete for your eyes — a look at suburbia by a number of artists at the Nerman and a new exhibition at Kemper in the Crossroads. In between, Onevillage Church hosts its final Final Friday evening of art and music for a cause. Out in Wichita, there is a daunting number of FF venues offering art.
FIVE CHOICES TODAY, 2-25
UMKC Gallery of Art opens a new three-person exhibition, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art hosts a Photography Society lecture, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art hosts a reception for Peregrine Honig’s book project, and the Spencer Museum of Contemporary Art opens a new installation by its visiting artist Kim Jongku — pick your geography and visual art preference and have a nice evening!
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Lectures by Magda Gluszek, Elijah Gowin, Marcie Miller Gross, Fatimah Tugger and others, plus a look at exhibition openings February 19 in downtown Kansas City — including a benefit for Haiti at Trap Gallery — and Johnson County, and lectures and openings to plan through February 25.
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Visual arts events week of February 12: Second Friday starts Valentine’s Day weekend with art exhibitions opening in Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas, as well as at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (including the new Electromediascope series). Saturday: the annual big auction at Kansas City Artists Coaltion starts at 6 p.m. A number of lectures and special events are planned for later in the week and beyond, especially on February 18th and 25th.
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
The weekend of February 4-6, especially First Friday on the 5th, is packed with visual art exhibition openings, cross-over events with music and performance, artists’ talks and even Chinese New Year at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Along with the usual plethora of Crossroads and other openings, you’ve got a lot of choices.
FIFTH / FINAL FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Snow on Wichita’s Final Friday doesn’t affect events closer to Kansas City’s center, including Lawrence. New work and KCK film fest are up this weekend, along with Fresh and Local at Room 39.
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
It’s opening night in St. Louis on Grand Boulevard and in Omaha, Nebraska, at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, while Mel Chin is in town (Lawrence now, Wichita Monday) with the Fundred Project. More events in Wichita and the Kansas City metro area for the week are listed here.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday — five days of new exhibitions and special visual arts events in the Kansas City metro area starting January 14. This weekend is also the last chance to see Wolfgang Laib’s installation (Nelson-Atkins) and exhibitions at Corridor Art Space and the Kansas City Artists Coaltion galleries.
SECOND FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Second Friday brings some of the first 2010 openings for Crossroads galleries, which took a break for New Year’s last Friday. A few Kansas City, Kansas, galleries are hosting new work for Second Friday Art Walk. Museums are back to regular schedules, too; art venues are heated!
FIRST FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Happy New Year to everyone. January first is a First Friday, and this time, you can do it all — all means “both” today, with many Crossroads-area galleries hosting their openings next week, January 8. Museums are open their regular hours for the weekend.
FOURTH FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
Looking for something to do (see!) during the winter break? Review brings you holiday-time hours for local museums and galleries. See what exhibitions are still on view before they’re gone with 2009. Plus, we’ve included a preview of some of what will be on the walls in January in Kansas City and Lawrence.
THIRD FRIDAY CALENDAR DIGEST
The end of the year can be wonderful — because there is new work to inspire. Third Friday brings some last-chances as well as new visions … and, because art is one of the best presents to give or receive, some great shopping opps around town.