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Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City

Published May 3, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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So said the song from the old Broadway musical Oklahoma! so forgive me while I post a couple more KC pix, pending some new local material. The city has a a very good gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A new section, the Bloch Wing, opened three years ago and I got to see it for the first time Saturday. The architecture is brilliant, a series of glowing boxes dropping down the hillside perpendicular to the old museum building. The museum is known for its set of four badminton shuttlecocks

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What It's All About

Published May 4, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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For all my fellow addicts, from the new Bloch Wing of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. See, I can make pictures that aren't all full of stuff like yesterday's ...

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Featured Exhibitions

Published May 5, 2010 at 12:05 a.m.
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A final photo from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. No hint as to what those exhibitions may be. All will be explained around the corner. This is an example of the haunting beauty of the Bloch Wing's architecture. Note that this is a color image and has not been desaturated ... There may be an Arch photograph tomorrow if I can find a suitable one in the archives. No new material. Too many things competing for my attention ...

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RFT readers debate Teabonics and speculate on splinters at the City Museum

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Published May 5, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

DAILY RFT, APRIL 28, 2010 ... TEABONICS: SIGN OF THE TIMES ... Get off your high horse : What's your point ["Presenting Teabonics, the New Dialect of Political Discourse," Aimee Levitt]? At least these people have the willingness, energy and desire to create their own signs, rath ...

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Run Away With The Circus. Stay Home.

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Published Jan. 12, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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Regular readers may recall that I had a post on New Year's Day about our First Night festivities and particularly the troupe of young acrobats known as the St. Louis Arches ... A couple of days later, I got an email from Jessica Hentoff, the artistic and executive director of Circus Harmony, the school and performance group that teaches "the art of life through circus education." There's a circus school in St. Louis! Jessica invited me to one of their rehearsals and shows at the wacky City

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Altar To Frieda

Published Nov. 6, 2009 at 7:00 a.m.
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I mentioned that there wasn't much activity in our Latino neighborhood for El Dia de Los Muertos. Still, when I walked the strip there were all sorts of little details. Part of Mexican tradition for the day is the construction of small altars honoring the dead. This one, in a store window, celebrates the painter Frieda Kahlo. I love the intensity and intimacy of her work. A few years ago we got to visit her museum in Mexico City, in the home she shared with her husband, the muralist Diego

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Thespians on Wheels: Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project is on a roll

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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.

There are many ways to fight for social change: marching, shouting, stripping. Joan Lipkin has tried them all, most memorably in 2004 when she enlisted 51 other women to help her protest the war in Iraq by lying down stark naked on the roof of the City Museum in the shape of a peace sign ...

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Free Recession Buster Getaway: St. Louis

Published July 20, 2009 at 11:24 a.m.


There is more to St. Louis than the famous Gateway Arch, Cardinals baseball and a certain brand of beer that features Clydesdale horses in its advertising. To kick off our "Free Recesion Buster Getaway" series, senior editor Drew Olson visited St. Louis to chronicle some of the attractions that make the city special. Read on, the write a blog for a chance to visit St. Louis for free!

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Love Among The Reptiles

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Published July 17, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
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.I think you could get busted in St. Louis for this 50 years ago. Whatever it is was designed by local mad genius Bob Cassilly. He's the guy who runs our very odd but fascinating City Museum. Best I can figure out is that he designed the area in this photo as a bizarre little park on a bike trail along the Mississippi, through the industrial badlands north of the Arch. These two are prominent residents ... Is this love, sex, communication or what? Actually, it kind of reminds me of a mother bird

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Survivor of Oklahoma City bombing: If time heals all wounds, why does it still hurt?

Published April 18, 2009 at 11:29 p.m.
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OKALAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum brought together those who survived the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, family members of the victims and rescue workers for a program called "First Person: Stories of Hope." ...

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