Art

Why one Black woman from the Kansas City area plans to leave upon graduating, a University of Kansas professor's research follows a possible path to disrupting the coronavirus, and how Kansas City's largest art museum will welcome visitors once again.

To show Black lives matter in Kansas City, organizers plan to put down paint, in the manner of similar projects in Washington, Cleveland, Tulsa and elsewhere.

Murals on the value of Black life are set to grace Kansas City streets, a historic vice presidential candidacy gives rise to reflections on race and identity, and Kansas City music venues are embracing change to salvage the summer concert season.

From apartment windows to suburban lawns — and even industrial grain silos — we've been documenting the burst of spontaneous signage for Black Lives Matter in Kansas City.

Nude modeling is a classic component of art education. But when the coronavirus forced art educators to pivot, model Kent Van Dusseldorp had to, too.

Artist Stephonne Singleton says he'd long felt he wasn't "enough." He looked to substances and to other people to soften the feeling, until he found freedom in his own music.

John Pryor's furniture business was just three years old when the pandemic struck. He put away his saws and sandpaper, and enlisted the help of Kansas City's refugee community to produce thousands of masks in the interim.

More than 40 languages are spoken in North Kansas City. The new mural on the wall of an immigration law firm reflects the global perspectives of students at North Kansas City High.

The Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey studio has been online-only since March. Despite the complications, Ailey Camp is continuing to teach area teens dance—along with the social and emotional skills they need to thrive.

Robert "Cowboy" Culbertson owns American Frontier Production, a set where artists can imagine life on the prairie as it once was.

The backstory that led to three Humboldt penguins admiring Monet's "Water Lilies," Caravaggio's "Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness" and other works of fine art.

Kansas lawmakers opt to rein in Gov. Laura Kelly's emergency authorities, the pandemic pushes Kansas City to get creative with its public spaces, and what brought about penguins roaming the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art last week?