A triangular-shaped, glass-walled labyrinth designed by acclaimed artist and Kansas City native Robert Morris is being installed in the Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. This dynamic sculpture will provide visitors with an intimate experience, enticing them to interact with the art by winding through the glass maze. The installation […]
David Douglas Duncan
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Oct 25 – Jan 26, 2014
The Kansas City-born photographer David Douglas Duncan, recognized internationally as one of the greatest photojournalists in the 20th century, has given The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 161 photographs. Two of the photographs were taken during the Korean War; all the others were taken over a period of nearly two decades at the home of Pablo Picasso.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
June 1 – August 18, 2013
Fiery passion and the warm, festive atmosphere of Mexico define an exhibition opening on June 1 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Masterpieces of Modern Mexico from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection showcases more than 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings collected by the Gelmans in their adopted homeland of Mexico.
Invented Worlds: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Feb. 20 – July 28 2013
Photographer Ruth Thorne-Thomsen (b. 1943) has been described as a visual poet. Her mysterious and lyrical body of work uses the inspiration of the simplest of imaging devices, the pinhole camera, to rethink the expressive potential of photography. Invented Worlds: Photographs by Ruth Thorne-Thomsen opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City Feb. 20 and runs through July 28, featuring 40 of her photographs.
February 8–April 28, 2013 An exhibition that juxtaposes thousand-year-old Chinese landscape paintings with the monumental landscapes of the living Chinese master Xu Longsen, Journey through Mountains and Rivers: Chinese Landscapes Ancient and Modern, opens on Feb. 8 at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. The exhibition is a celebration of six treasured landscapes from the Nelson’s collection that have just received incredible critical and public acclaim in the exhibition Masterpieces of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy from American Collections presented at the Shanghai Museum.
Bonjour Picasso!
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
September 22, 2012—January 27, 2013
Pablo Picasso, heralded as one of the most important artists of all time, was a deep and complex man who revolutionized twentieth-century art through his enthusiastic embrace of all mediums: paintings, collages, drawings, prints, sculptures, ceramics, stage sets and costumes. Now The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art presents an intimate portrait of this groundbreaking artist with the opening of Bonjour Picasso! Sept. 22.
Terry Evans
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Oct. 20 – Jan. 20, 2013.
One of the nation’s finest landscape photographers, Terry Evans, is widely recognized for her views of the Midwest prairie, its people, and its artifacts. Her first retrospective, Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans, opens at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Oct. 20 and runs through Jan. 20, 2013.
Ives Maes
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
June 28–Sept. 9
For his first solo American exhibition, Belgian artist Ives Maes explores the architecture of world’s fair sites as they look today in The Future of Yesterday: Photographs of Architectural Remains at World’s Fairs June 28–Sept. 9 in Bloch Lobby of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. In 16 dramatic photographic sculptures, Maes investigates the effect of time, place and context on the remains of these global events.
Treasures of Mexico in Kansas City, an intimate exhibition of 30 works from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection, opens May 4 at 6 p.m. at the Consulate of Mexico, 1617 Baltimore Ave. in Kansas City, MO. The paintings, lithographs and drawings on loan from the Nelson-Atkins American and photography collections celebrate some of Mexico’s most recognized artists from the 20th century, and they are being shown for the first time together in Kansas City.
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) and Gateway Foundation are pleased to present the fifth edition of Great Rivers Biennial. Opening on Friday, May 11, 2012, this exhibition demonstrates how artists based in the St. Louis area dynamically engage with the issues, stylistic tendencies, and techniques that define the contemporary art and culture of our time. The Great Rivers Biennial 2012 winners are David Johnson, Asma Kazmi, and Mel Trad, who have developed individual projects in photography, multimedia installation, and sculpture, respectively.
Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
April 7, 2012—September 2, 2012
The photographs made by Timothy H. O’Sullivan as part of the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, or King Survey, comprise an iconic and richly varied body of work.
An installation by Argentinean artist Luis Tomasello (b. 1915) will be installed in the Bloch Building at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art beginning Oct. 31, offering visitors the chance to see work by a renowned Kinetic artist from the Optical Art movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The public will be able to meet Tomasello on Nov. 10 from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. The artist will celebrate his 96th birthday while in Kansas City.