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Live-Work Options
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Description
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Article describes blossoming of Kansas City as a "culture hub" focusing particularly on visual arts. The Nelson-Atkins, Nerman, and Kemper Museums are profiled as well as public art, galleries and foundations and programs.
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2008-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Art in Kansas City
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Description
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Two articles highlight the art scene in Kansas City: "Kansas City's Glittering New Galleries" and "Kansas City: A City of Art." The first article reviews the new Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. The second gives brief descriptions of the galleries in the Crossroads Arts District, the Urban Culture Project, West 39th Street, Columbus Park, art centers in Johnson County, Westport, West Bottoms, Lawrence, and other "hot galleries" in the area.
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2007-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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The Nelson Gallery's Journey into the Twentieth Century
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Description
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Photos and description of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and its 48-year history, debating its utilization as a democratic instrument of high culture to the community.
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Date
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1981-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Nelson: Kansas City Art Gallery Pits Contemporaries against Cattle
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Description
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Article about the 3-year history in 1936 of "the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Atkins Museum" and its origins, cultural role in the community, competition with the American Royal Livestock Show, and artists exhibiting their works in it.
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1936-10-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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More than Meets the Eye
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Description
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Article following opening of Bloch Building discusses importance of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art to Kansas City. Total cost of the project was $196.4 million but the rave reviews the building has attracted on the national level will draw people to the area and bolstered the Nelson's position as "one huge chamber of the community's cultural heart."
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2007-06-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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He Wants You to Think
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Description
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Profile of Kansas City artist Peter Cowdin, known to the arts community as A. Bitterman. The author writes that Bitterman was trained as a printmaker, moved to Kansas City in 1988 where he took a hiatus from making art, and decided to apply to the Avenue of the Arts in 2006. The controversies surrounding Bitterman's works are summarized, including: positioning a Wal-Mart sign against the Nelson Atkins Museum of Fine Art's Bloch Building, his proposal to attach a paper mache banana to the side of the Folly Theater, his billboard depicting himself aiming a gun at The Scout statue in Penn Valley Park, and others. Bitterman is interviewed and discusses his works and future artistic endeavors.
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2014-03-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City Report: Everything's Up to Date in. ..
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Description
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Overview of Kansas City's "cultural renaissance" in the arts with descriptions of opera at the Lyric Theater, visual arts at "the Nelson Gallery of Art," classical music by the Kansas City Philharmonic, and promotion of all of these by the new Performing Arts Foundation, etc.
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Date
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1965-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
