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BRAVO, NELSON-ATKINS
Recent exhibitions at Kansas City’s anchor museum show a tendency toward including more local artists in the permanent collection: “Magnificent Gifts for the 75th” at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art earlier this year includes five prolific and significant local artists and sets a welcomed trend that continues in “Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute,” on view through January 2, 2011.
The Arcs of History: James Brinsfield
Brinsfield’s show could have been created for our time of rampant unemployment, massive debt and uncertainty about the future. Because, despite all of those things, there remains a persistent hope of … well, to paraphrase the artist, what life could be about to become.
COMMUNITY-STUDIO INTEGRATION
Hugh Merrill’s 40 years of art-making have left impressions on communities he has worked with in doing so. “What began as a visual interest in spaces informed by architectural surroundings has moved full circle to involving much broader segments of the arts and local communities, including their architectural landmarks. The relationship between origin and fruition is extremely close in this work.”
Go Deep: Shirley Luke Schnell at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center
“The River of Compassion and Mercy,” Acrylic on Polystyrene. Shirley Luke Schnell Subaqueous Notations: and Upon Arriving (shared show) 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Leedy-Voulkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore Kansas City, MO 816.474.1919 Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday Runs through: May 28 Gallery site: http://www.leedy-voulkos.com First Fridays are great for sipping, socializing and skimming. But for truly experiencing art [...]
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