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Linda
Hall Library
THIS
TIME IT'S PERSONAL:
Innovation in the Home
September
28 to March 16, 2012
The
Linda Hall Library's year-long celebration and examination of the
history of innovation continues with This Time It's Personal:
Innovation in Your Home, opening September 28, 2011.
Visitors to This Time It's Personal will be surprised to
discover technology's influence in every aspect of their lives from
the mundane (carpet fibers) to the sophisticated (laser lights in
television remote controls).
Various
galleries throughout the first floor of the Library will represent
rooms in a contemporary family home. The installation will include
a kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom, and garage. Curators
Nancy Green and Eric Ward highlight more than 65 household inventions
used daily, and illustrate how these items are the result of decades
- and sometimes centuries - of technological innovations.
Journal
articles, rare books, and patents from the Library's collection
will demonstrate the pathway of innovation for these common household
items. Visitors will leave with a sense that even a quiet night
at home can be a walk through the history of modern innovation.
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
To
Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America
October 15
to
January
8, 2012
George Ault "Bright Light at Russell’s Corners," 1946.
Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Lawrence
During
the turbulent 1940s, artist George Ault (1891-1948) created eerie and
evocative paintings that are some of the most original made during those
years. To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, organized by the
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., will be on view at
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Oct. 15 through Jan. 8, 2012.
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
The
Photographs of Brett Weston
November
23 to
March 25, 2012
Brett Weston, American (1911-1993). Water Reflection,
Logging, Alaska, 1973. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (27.94 x 35.56
cm). Gift from the Christian K. Keesee Collection. Copyright The Brett
Weston Archive. 2007.53.22.
This
exhibition celebrates the career of Brett Weston (1911-1993). The son
of famed American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), Brett Weston
was a "natural" with the camera. After serving as his father's
apprentice, Brett was a teenager when he first received high-level, international
recognition as an artist.
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Rockhurst
University's Greenlease Gallery
Celestial
Terrestrials: Between Heaven and Earth
October
21 to
December 3
Marcus Cain, Gathering, 2011, 20" x 16",
Acrylic, ink, watercolor on panel
Artwork courtesy Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
Photography courtesy E.G. Schempf
From
prehistoric cave painting, to guardian figures on African reliquaries,
to countless statues of saints and angels, to the pop culture superheroes
and heroines, artwork has depicted how humans have sought help from spirit
guides. The exhibition brings together paintings, works on paper, sculpture
and videos by contemporary artists who deal with the complex subject of
supernatural intermediaries.
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Brush
Creek Corridor Cultural Trail Map
What's
New In The Brush Creek Corridor?
www.bccp.org
Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art
The
Big Reveal
September
23 to
April 15, 2012
Petah Coyne,
Untitled #1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu), 2009–10; apple tree, taxidermy
Black Melinistic Pheasants, taxidermy Blue India Peacocks, taxidermy
Black-Shouldered Peacocks, taxidermy Spaulding Peacocks, black sand
from pig iron casting, Acrylex 234, black paint, cement, chicken wire
fencing, wood, gravel, sisal, staging rope, cotton rope, insulated foam
sealant, pipe, epoxy, threaded rod, wire, screws, jaw-to-jaw swivels,
158 x 262 x 288 inches; Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary
Art, Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. T. Kemper Charitable
Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee; Image © Petah Coyne, courtesy of
Galerie Lelong, New York, photo: Elizabeth Bernstein
The
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art celebrates new acquisitions to the
Museum’s permanent collection in the exhibition The Big Reveal.
It features works by 27 artists from around the world and is on view
September 23, 2011–April 15, 2012, at the Kemper Museum. Since
opening in 1994, the Museum’s permanent collection has more than
tripled, a tremendous feat for any institution. Admission is free; however
donations are welcome
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