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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
Inventing
the Shuttlecocks
May
9 to August 16
Bloch Building, Gallery L8
Claes Oldenburg, American (b. Sweden, 1929).
Coosje van Bruggen,
American (b. The Netherlands, 1942-2009). Shuttlecocks (one of four),
1994. Aluminum, Fiberglass-reinforced plastic and paint. Height
260 9/16 inches. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of the
Sosland Family. F94-1/4. Photo by Mark McDonald, courtesy of The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Today,
Shuttlecocks is a beloved icon for The Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art and for Kansas City, but it wasn’t always so. When
the husband-and-wife artist team, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van
Bruggen, installed it in the Museum’s Kansas City Sculpture
Park in 1994, Shuttlecocks created quite a stir. Letters from those
who loved its bright, fresh form and welcomed its challenge to the
status quo appeared in the local media along with articles, letters
to the editor, editorial cartoons and news reports charging that
it was “not art” and calling it a “giant waste.”
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Kemper
Museum
of Contemporary Art
Polly
Apfelbaum: Split
February
6 to August 9
Polly
Apfelbaum, Split, 1998; synthetic velvet, fabric dye;
dimensions variable; Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection;
Museum Purchase, Enid and Crosby Kemper and
William T. Kemper Acquisition Fund, 2004.
Since
the early 1990s, American artist Polly Apfelbaum has been absorbed
by staining—pouring and dripping fabric dye onto cotton sheeting
and synthetic velvet. By “blotting” the fabric, she
creates organic, rather than gestural, fields and patterns of pure
color.
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Kansas
City Art Institute
H&R Block Artspace
Black
Is, Black Ain’t
June
17 to October 17
image:
Andres Serrano
Taking
its title from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, this exhibition
will explore a shift in the rhetoric of race from an earlier emphasis
on inclusion to a present moment where racial identity is being
simultaneously rejected and retained. The exhibition will bring
together works by 26 black and non-black artists whose work together
examines a moment where the cultural production of so-called “blackness”
is concurrent with efforts to make race socially and politically
irrelevant.
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
Bloch
Building
Gallery L11
Beloved
Daughters: Photographs
by
Fazal Sheikh
June 27
to
September 3
Fazal Sheikh (American, born 1965) Malikh, Delhi, India,
2007.
From Ladli. Carbon Inkjet print on handmade Hahnemuele
Photo Rag 308 g/m2 paper.
© Fazal Sheikh.
Beloved
Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh brings together approximately
seventy photographs by the artist and activist, Fazal Sheikh.
Sheikh
uses photography to create sustained portraits of communities around the
world, addressing their beliefs and traditions as well as their political
and economic problems. His powerful, thought-provoking work suggests an
empathetic engagement with his subjects, and puts the viewer eye-to-eye
with people unlikely to appear on the news except as anonymous products
of circumstance.
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Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art
WYETH:
Three
Generations
of Artistry
September
17
to
November 29
Andrew
Wyeth, Man and the Moon, 1990; egg tempera on Renaissance panel, 30 1/8
x 48 inches; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Promised Gift of the Enid
and Crosby Kemper Foundation PG2000:ECK3
The
artwork by the Wyeth family, America’s iconic art family, will be
the focus of the exhibition WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry this
fall at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Together, the artists of
the Wyeth family—N. C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, and James Wyeth—represent
more than 100 years of American painting and have long been associated
with the people and the landscapes of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Maine.
The exhibition will draw more than two dozen works from public and private
collections from throughout the Midwest, including some that have never
been on exhibition before now.
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Creek Corridor Cultural Trail Map
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New In The Brush Creek Corridor?
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Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art
Dan
Christensen:
Forty Years of
Painting
May 15
to
August 30
Dan
Christensen, Lisa's Red, 1971; acrylic on canvas, 102 x 88 inches;
Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper
Foundation, 1995.
This
survey of paintings by the late Dan Christensen (1942–2007) documents
his never-ending quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint,
and pictorial space.
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
Bloch
Building
Galleries L14 and L15
George
Segal:
Street Scenes
May 9
to
August 2
George
Segal, American, 1924-2000. The Diner, 1964–1966. Plaster, wood,
chrome, laminated plastic, Masonite, fluorescent lamp, glass, paper.
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Street
Scenes presents vignettes of daily life set in the urban environment.
Cast from live models who were primarily family and friends, Segal’s
white, ghostly figures appear in stage-like settings made of materials
scavenged from the real world.
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Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art
Kemper at the
Crossroads
33
W. 19th Street
Jaimie
Warren :
You Are So Beautiful
In The Face
June 5
to
October 3
Jaimie
Warren, Untitled (Self Portrait, Red and Flowers, Tokyo), 2007;
chromogenic print, 30 x 40 inches; Courtesy of the artist
For
Kansas City-based photographer Jaimie Warren, life is a performance
and the world is her stage.
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