Arts Archives

The Unicorn Theatre positioned the rock opera "bare" on its 2009 schedule early last year, long before the economic downturn made it a challenge to produce a musical with 17 actors and an on-stage band.

By Steve Walker

Museums around the country have been hit by the economic recession. In Lawrence and the Kansas City area, museums have cut budgets, hours, or staff; major projects or traveling exhibitions have been cancelled or put on hold.

By Laura Spencer

By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, MO – Museums around the country have been hit by the economic recession. In Lawrence and the Kansas City area, museums have cut budgets, hours, or staff; and major projects or traveling exhibitions have been cancelled or put on hold. Some institutions, like the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, are dusting off works from their permanent collection to cut costs. KCUR's Laura Spencer reports.

You have to get up close with a magnifying glass to see all the details in an exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. "From the Land of the Taj Mahal" displays paintings commissioned by two early Mughal emperors of India.

By Laura Spencer

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Kansas City, MO – The Mughal Empire, an Islamic dynasty, controlled most of India for over three hundred years.

The Food Critics return to share restaurant news and recommendations. Plus, what does it really take to be a "foodie"?

By The Walt Bodine Show, April 2, 2009

Visitors to the contemporary art space, Grand Arts, might feel like they've wandered into a cross between a mad scientist's laboratory and Alice's trip down the rabbit hole.

By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, MO – It's a project called "Deep Time + Rapid Time," and it's a culmination of a three-year collaboration by an open-ended collective called spurse.

For a recent project called "Deep Time + Rapid Time," the collective known as spurse turned Grand Arts into a laboratory environment with maps, diagrams, books, and technology. The members of the interdisciplinary collective explored how we understand time and interact with our surroundings.

By Laura Spencer

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An exhibition, "Rare Visions - Detour Art," at the Belger Arts Center pays tribute to outsider art, works by self-taught artists that aren't often viewed in museums and galleries.

By Laura Spencer

In the exhibition, "Rare Visions - Detour Art," at the Belger Arts Center, Lucas, Kansas-based artist Erika Nelson's "World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things" is one of the artworks on display.

By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, MO – It's a van with tiny sculptures based on the "World's Largest" roadside attractions. Here, Nelson talks about the inspiration behind it and some of her favorites.

A new production at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre explores life in the late 19th century in a small American town. It's a musical adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.

By Laura Spencer

Earlier this month, The Kansas City Star reported that the Kansas City Repertory Theatre would suspend its seasonal production of "A Christmas Carol" for the first time in 29 years.

By Laura Spencer

In a world premiere play Atypical Boy opening at the Coterie Theatre, audience members enter a funny, fable-like world that is created with color, expressive characters and puppets. In this world, conformity is valued and individuality is misunderstood. But in the midst of this is a young person who is disenfranchised because he cannot conform.

By Up to Date March 13, 2009

Photographer Homer Page is largely unknown today because he exhibited and sold few photographs during his lifetime. A new exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art displays nearly 70 of Page's rare black-and-white photographs of post-war New York.

By Laura Spencer

Times are hard. That's what most people will tell you these days. But one local business owner is opening a second location in Berlin, Germany.

By Gina Kaufmann

New exhibitions in Kansas City and Lawrence explore trees as metaphor and material. There are prints, photographs, drawings, and quilts inspired by trees, as well as sculptures crafted from tree logs, and sound recordings.

By Laura Spencer