Arts & Culture

Events are planned throughout the tournament, featuring watch parties, live music, and cultural programs. Partnerships include the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and American Jazz Museum.

Rapper Jamel Thompson, better known as The Royal Chief, got his start in Atlanta learning about the industry and even ghostwriting for Kanye West. He came back home to Kansas City in 2017, and now works to advance the music industry here

An interactive exhibit in a Crossroads art gallery aims to astonish earthly and extraterrestrial visitors alike. Wichita, Kansas, artists and spouses Mike Miller and Meghan Miller have created inventive ways to make art from found and salvaged objects.

Glenn Robinson's formula is simple: show up, press record, and tell the truth. Now, the creator behind Hood Dude Food Reviews is one of the city’s most influential champions of Black-owned restaurants and small businesses.

The Kansas City Symphony said the new 4,600 seat venue will host live music events, expand the organization’s artistic reach and support long-term growth for the group. Administrators see the move as a way to secure the symphony’s financial future.

Captain Ahab’s preoccupation with a white whale is set to music in a new Kansas City world premiere. It’s Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick,” told in authentic, 19th-century sea shanties.

Screenland Armour Theatre in North Kansas City recently installed film projectors that allow it to show recent releases like "Sinners" and classics like "Vertigo" on 70 mm, making it the only theater in the region to specialize in that format. Owner Adam Roberts hopes the investment will give younger film fans the opportunity to see movies the way they were intended.

A dispute over a mural outside a hamburger restaurant in Salina, Kansas, could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Plus: Three massive bronze bison sculpted by a Missouri artist are joining the collection at the largest natural history museum in the world.

A new exhibit at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art through August 9 highlights the global roots of artists with ties to Kansas City, and the worldwide connections that have shaped the city's artistic community and culture.

Kansas lawmakers are considering restricting student protests after high schoolers organized walkouts across the state in protest of immigration enforcement. We’ll hear from three students about their experience. Plus: We'll go inside the Greenhouse Print Space, a Kansas City studio keeping hundreds of years of printmaking technology alive.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is moving closer to a major expansion, with renovations underway and plans to break ground on a new wing in 2028. Director and CEO Julian Zugazagoitia breaks down the construction timeline and discusses how the museum aims to become more transparent, accessible and community-centered ahead of its 100th anniversary.

B&B Theatres announced this weekend that it has closed its movie theater on Main Street. Its closure means one fewer first-run movie theater in Kansas City's core.