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The Art Of The Automobile

Each year the Kansas City Art Institute hosts  the Art of the Cars Concours, a gathering of exotic vehicles whose purposes extend far beyond transportation.

This year's event takes place on Sunday and includes Ginger Rogers’ 1929 Duesenberg convertible; a 1907 Mason Touring car that’s been in the same Kansas family for 105 years; and a Bugatti

Friday in the first half of Up to Date, Steve Kraske talks with event organizer and walking-car-encyclopediaMarshall Miller and Kansas City Art Institute president Jacqueline Chanda about this year's show, the idea of automobiles as art, and what visitors might experience on a trip to the KCAI.

SEE MORE: The Sixth Annual Art of the Car Concours will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 24, on the KCAI campus. The event will feature about 200 vintage, classic and special-interest vehicles, including cars, trucks, racing cars and motorcycles belonging to collectors from eight states.

Stephen Steigman is director of Classical KC. You can email him at <a href="mailto:Stephen.Steigman@classicalkc.org">Stephen.Steigman@classicalkc.org</a>.
When I host Up To Date each morning at 9, my aim is to engage the community in conversations about the Kansas City area’s challenges, hopes and opportunities. I try to ask the questions that listeners want answered about the day’s most pressing issues and provide a place for residents to engage directly with newsmakers. Reach me at steve@kcur.org or on Twitter @stevekraske.