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Walking Through the New Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

On the east side of the Bloch Building on Tuesday, a crew reinstalled Alexander Calder's sculpture called Tom's Cubicle. It's just one of the changes underway on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. By Laura Spencer

Kansas City, MO – On the east side of the Bloch Building on Tuesday, a crew reinstalled Alexander Calder's sculpture called Tom's Cubicle. It's just one of the changes underway on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. KCUR's Laura Spencer takes us into a recent tour of the inside and outside of the new Nelson.

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