Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art
RubberMade:
Sculpture by Chakaia Booker
June
6 – August 17

Chakaia Booker, Sugar in my Bowl, 2003;
rubber tire and steel, 95 x 110 x 57 3/4 inches;
Courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Gallery, New York
Since
the early 1990s, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with
recycled tires. Through a physically demanding process of twisting,
slicing, and weaving found rubber tires (primarily from bikes, cars,
and farm equipment), she forms dynamic, whimsical sculptures that
fuse ecological concerns with questions about racial and economic
differences, globalization, and existing sociopolitical power structures.
Featuring more than twenty sculptures, this exhibition surveys the
past seven years of production by one of today’s leading African-American
artists.
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Kansas
City Art Institute
Art
of the Car Concours
June
28
The
second annual Art of the Car Concours, featuring a wide variety
of vintage, classic and special interest vehicles belonging to Kansas
City and Midwest area collectors — will take place from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. June 28 on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute,
4415 Warwick Blvd. On view for the first time this year will be
vintage motorcycles, race cars and fire trucks.
The
cost to attend the concours is $10 per person; students pay $5;
and children under 10 years old and faculty, staff and students
of the Kansas City Art Institute will be admitted free. Proceeds
will benefit the college’s scholarship fund. Attendees will
be invited to vote for their favorite vehicles. “People's
Choice” ballots will be distributed, and there will be trophies
for the top five vote-getters. Corporate sponsors will also be providing
trophies for special vehicles.
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Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art
Sparks!
The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative
May
3 – July 20
Bloch Building, Gallery L13, L14

Pat Steir, American, (b. 1938).
Double Waterfall for a Simple Afternoon, 1990.
Oil on canvas. Purchase: acquired through the generosity of
the William T. Kemper Foundation--Commerce Bank, Trustee.
This
exhibition will include the 32 modern and contemporary works acquired
through the generosity of the initiative since it began in 1999.
Underwritten by the William T. Kemper Foundation—Commerce
Bank, Trustee the initiative has allocated $1 million each year
for the acquisition of contemporary art. Guided by art advisor Robert
Storr, Dean of Yale's School of Art and Nelson-Atkins Sanders Sosland
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Jan Schall, the foundation
has made several key purchases for the Museum.
This
featured exhibition will be ticketed.
Human/Nature:
Recent European Landscape Photography
June
28 – October 5
Bloch Building, Gallery L11

Bart
Michiels, Verdun 1916, Le Mort Homme, 2001.
Chromogenic print. Image: 60 x 72 inches.
Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, 2007.21.20.
This
exhibition features a selection of large-scale color photographs
by a new generation of European artists, including Andreas Gefeller,
Peter Bialobrzeski, Massimo Vitali, Olaf Otto Becker, Bart Michiels,
Jem Southam, and Wout Berger, among others. These artists engage
with the contemporary European landscape in varying ways.
For
some, the land retains romantic associations, as a source of sublime
inspiration. For others, cultural interventions such as the leisure
industry and real estate development are paramount concerns. Notions
of home, the physical and emotional weight of history, and the power
of memory to shape perception of the land also inform these images.
Together, these works explore the endlessly complex relationship
between nature and the human presence, from harmonious coexistence
to contentious exploitation. This exhibition provides the first
opportunity to view bold, contemporary works never before seen in
this region.
Free
admission, no exhibition tickets required.
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