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Visual Arts

3:49 pm

Wed April 10, 2013

The Nelson's Kansas City Sculpture Park Renamed For Donald Hall

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Credit Mark McDonald / Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Magdalena Abakanowicz's Standing Figures (Thirty Figures), 1994-1998.

Credit courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Don Hall, who served as a member of the Nelson-Atkins Board of Trustees for 31 years, pictured inside the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

By Laura Spencer

The Kansas City Sculpture Park, the more than two dozen sculptures outside the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, opened in 1989. In honor of the park’s 25th anniversary in 2014, the museum will change the park’s name to reflect its roots.

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6:00 pm

Thu March 28, 2013

An Art & Theater Fusion

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte buy Georges Seurat

By Beth Lipoff and Steve Kraske

Take a stroll through an art gallery, and you just might find yourself humming a Sondheim tune.

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2:02 pm

Wed February 27, 2013

Inventing A World With A Pinhole Camera

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Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

Liberty Head, Illinois, 1978, from the series Expeditions.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

Head with ladders, Illinois, 1979, from the series Expeditions.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

Tower, Illinois, 1979, from the series Expeditions.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

Dot-Lady, Wisconsin, 1983, from the series Door.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

Levitating Man, Wisconsin, 1983, from the series Door.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

). Señora Flora, New Mexico, 1986, from the series Views from the Shoreline.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

Elegy (4779) Mexico, 1999-2001, from the series Agua Tierra.

Credit Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, American (b. 1943) / Courtesy: Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art

By Laura Spencer and Matthew Long-Middleton

A pinhole camera is a simple tool – and it can be constructed with basic materials. You could even make one at home with your child on a snow day. All you need is cardboard, tape, and aluminum foil. But, it’s the eye behind the camera that draws a line between child’s play and the potential for photography.

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Visual Arts

5:00 am

Thu February 14, 2013

A Journey Through Chinese Landscapes

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Credit Yang Xinli / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Artist Xu Longsen

Credit Xu Longsen, Chinese (b. Shanghai, 1956) / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Law of the Dao Is Its Being What It Is, 2002–2008. Ink on paper.

Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR

Curator Colin Mackenzie in the "holy of the holies," the Chinese painting gallery.

Credit Qiao Zhongchang, Chinese (active late 11th–early 12th century) / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Illustration to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff (section), Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127). Handscroll, ink on paper.

Credit Xu Daoning, Chinese (ca. 970–1052). / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Fishermen’s Evening Song (section), Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127). Handscroll, ink and slight color on silk.

By Laura Spencer

Nature has provided a source of inspiration for Chinese poets and painters for thousands of years. An exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art juxtaposes the old with the new - showcasing some of the museum’s collection of Song Dynasty paintings, as well as a monumental landscape by a contemporary Chinese artist.

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5:30 pm

Mon January 28, 2013

Civic Leader Adele Hall Dies At 81

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Credit Courtesy: Hallmark Card, Inc.

Adele Hall

Credit Courtesy of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Don Hall served in the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, but he visited Adele Coryell while on leave.

Credit Mark McDonald / Courtesy: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Adele and Don Hall outside the museum.

By Laura Spencer

Adele Hall, civic leader and wife of Hallmark Cards chairman Donald J. Hall for nearly 60 years, has died. She was 81.

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