Visual arts

Vivian Wilson Bluett is an emerging, self-taught artist who wants her art to create community conversations around social and racial justice and history.

The gallerist and curator has kept busy during the pandemic, and has big plans for the rest of 2023 — she wants to finish two books and has her sights set on building a women-focused recording studio.

This Saturday night local artworks go under the hammer as the Kansas City Artists Coalition hosts its 40th Art Auction benefit. The nonprofit’s big annual party for people who love art comes six months into the job for new Executive Director Courtney Wasson.

To settle its wager after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Museum of Art will loan the Nelson-Atkins the 1875 painting "Sailing" by Thomas Eakins. The Philadelphia painter is widely revered as a giant of 19th and early 20th-century American art, but less known in Kansas City.

With the Kansas City Chiefs set to play against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, the museum of the losing city has agreed to send one of its masterworks, as a loan, to the museum of the winning city.

The Missouri artist’s descendants charge that UMB Bank, Benton estate trustees, mismanaged artwork in its care, even selling pieces without permission and below their true value.

A hidden gem of Kansas City's historic Roanoke neighborhood, the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio takes you back in time to the place Benton lived, worked and died.

The Indigenous artist is among 19 local artists creating work for the new Kansas City airport, scheduled to open next year. For her piece, Cliff has spent months attaching millions of tiny beads to several pieces of raw-edge wood. The final work will be 17 feet long.

"Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors" is up through the end of the year at the Truman Presidential Library and Museum.

As the Springfield photographer prepares to fill a Kansas City gallery with her work, collectors on both coasts are identifying with what's universal about southwestern Missouri.

A new initiative pairs an artist with conservation efforts to remove the invasive species of bush honeysuckle in Johnson County’s parks.

"Mirror Pavilion," a new sculpture by Jan Hendrix, has been unveiled on the lawn of The Nelson-Atkins Museum.