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Renée Cinderhouse is an installation artist based in Kansas City whose site-specific art installations are ambitious explorations of past and…
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Among the many art installations in Kansas City's Open Spaces arts festival, one in Swope Park explores John Milton's "Paradise Lost." It's the Biblical…
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Down a winding road in Swope Park, on the other end of a short walk through the grass, there's an old, abandoned pool where, in the days before…
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Kansas City artist Allan Winkler's work is full of whimsy. It's often found in unexpected places: a mural in a school cafeteria, colorful mosaics in the…
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Sculptor Jacob Burmood stood on a high ladder beneath a large elm tree. The sound of his buffing tool mingled with the late-afternoon chorus of cicadas at…
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Sculptor Tom Corbin might be best known in Kansas City for the Firefighter’s Memorial sculpture and fountain on West 31st St., but more than 1,000 of his…
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Segment 1: Remembering a Kansas artist who made furniture as he made sculptures.Wendell Castle revolutionized art. The Holton, Kansas, native was known as…
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A portrait isn't just about capturing someone's literal likeness. It's about capturing the inner essence. So how is it done? And how is it done well? We…
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Merriam City Council members on Monday approved a new public art project by a close vote of 5-4.The sculpture, "Hmmm..." is designed by Colorado-based…
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In 1907, Pablo Picasso stumbled into an art gallery in Paris. It was filled with masks and small sculptures from Africa and Oceania. Inspired, his own…
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On our First Friday arts show: a local artist has been keeping a dream journal for over 40 years. In his new exhibit, he's brought recurring objects from…
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Wendell Castle revolutionized the art world. The Holton, Kansas, native was known as the father of the studio furniture movement of the 1960s and 1970s.…