KANSAS CITY, MO.- Works by Ray K. Metzker, one of the most original and influential photographers of the last half century, will be on view from Jan. 15 to June 5, 2011, at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker will reveal …
Museum Offers Tactile Tours for People Who Are Visually Impaired
KANSAS CITY, MO.- A new program at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art offers monthly tours through 2011 for people who are blind or visually impaired. Inspired by the 100th anniversary celebration of Alphapointe Association for the Blind, as many as nine …
Monet’s Water Lilies to Reunite in Missouri
CLEVELAND (AP).- The Cleveland Museum of Art is lending a painting of water lilies by Claude Monet to museums in Missouri, where it will join two companion paintings for the first time in 30 years. The painting will be loaned for a year to the St. Lou…
Contemporary Works in Clay from Kansas City Collection Featured in Exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins
KANSAS CITY, MO- Contemporary works in clay from the outstanding collection of Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz are on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in an exhibition that opened today, Dec. 15, in the Bloch Building. Collecting with Passion: Contem…
Contemporary Works in Clay from Kansas City Collection Featured in Exhibition at The Nelson-Atkins
KANSAS CITY, MO- Contemporary works in clay from the outstanding collection of Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz are on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in an exhibition that opened today, Dec. 15, in the Bloch Building. Collecting with Passion: Contem…
New Mobile Guide Program Premieres at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Using their own smartphones or one of the Museum’s iPod Touch players, visitors can now easily listen to information about more than 250 works of art at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The Nelson-Atkins Mobile Guide premieres F…
Vibrant Watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller Capture Spirit of the Early American West
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Vibrant and masterful mixed media works on paper by the artist Alfred Jacob Miller, depicting the American West inspired by a six-month expedition in 1837, is on view in Romancing the West: Alfred Jacob Miller in the Bank of America C…
Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints on Display at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to the Chinese painting galleries at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will see rarely viewed 17th-century Chinese woodblock prints that are the world’s earliest true color prints. Cultivating Nature: Printmaking for Paint…
Rare Chinese Woodblock Prints on Display at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to the Chinese painting galleries at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art will see rarely viewed 17th-century Chinese woodblock prints that are the world’s earliest true color prints. Cultivating Nature: Printmaking for Paint…
Former Director of the Nelson-Atkins Ted Coe has Died
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Ralph T. Coe, the third Director of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and one of the nation’s foremost authorities on American Indian art, died Tuesday in Santa Fe, N.M. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ted Coe,”…