Libby Hanssen
CONTRIBUTOROriginally from Indiana, Libby Hanssen covers the performing arts in Kansas City. She's written for KCUR, KC Studio, The Kansas City Star, The Pitch, and KCMetropolis. Libby maintains the culture blog Proust Eats A Sandwich and writes poetry and children's books. Along with degrees in trombone performance, she was a Fellow for the NEA Arts Journalism Institute at Columbia University.
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Using math to interpret music is not new — Pythagoras supposedly discovered the connection between ratios and consonant sounds back in the 6th Century… -
This article originally appeared in KCUR's Arts Adventure newsletter. You can see the archive here. Or, you can subscribe here to receive it every…
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Dwight Frizzell was a teenager when he realized he could hear the Liberty Bend Bridge singing.The bridge spans the Missouri River just north of…
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If there was a soundtrack for the sculptures on the lawn at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, what would it be like?Christina Butera thought about that a…
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In search of gold, the first Spanish conquistadors arrived in Kansas in 1541. Though they were disappointed, the age of discovery is still alive and well…
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Creating high quality art for kids is no easy task. As an audience, they’re pure in their responses: If the work engages them, they’ll roar in approval;…
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In your average art museum collection, which often displays the female form in various states of undress, less than 10 percent of the work was created by…
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American composer Harry Partch lived an unconventional life. A dreamer and a traveler, he devised an original system for making music and built dozens of…
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What started as a high school reading group in the 1960s has become a way for Kansas City audiences to enjoy some of America’s greatest plays, read aloud…
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Fifty years ago on Christmas Eve, the astronauts of Apollo 8 — the first humans to leave Earth’s gravity — orbited the moon, photographing its dark side…
