Art After Katrina

KCUR

Published May 20, 2010 at 2:23 PM CDT

David Bates, The Flood, 2006?07, oil on canvas, 86 x 64 inches, Collection of Lillian W. and Katherine E. Albritton, Dallas, Texas; photo: David Wharton

This August marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. In a recent edition of The Walt Bodine Show, we talked with a Texas-based artist about his new exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Art addressing Katrina and its impact on the people and the places along the Gulf Coast.Guests:
David Bates, painter
Barbara O'Brien, curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.

David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
May 21-August 22, 2010
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, Missouri

You can listen to the show here.
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