Kansas City Events Calendar
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
Intimate Apparel
“A justly acclaimed, beautifully written, and intensely personal play…” (Chicago Tribune) from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage comes the soon-to-be classic, Intimate Apparel. Set in 1905 New York, Esther works as a seamstress sewing exquisite lingerie for an array of clients, but…
7:30–9:30pm
THE RITZ
When Gaetano Proclo, a hapless, middle-aged, very married man takes it on the lam from his mafioso brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci, he ducks into “The Ritz” – a gay bathhouse. What he encounters there sets the scene for an old-fashioned, doorslamming…
All Day
Visual Arts
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is a built environment installation that takes on the familiar shape of a living room. It acts at once as a library, a gallery, a cabinet of curiosity, a third space, a common…
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Visual Arts
Betsabeé Romero: A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces)
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Betsabeé Romero, a Mexican visual artist known for her installations, will have three site-specific works installed in the Nerman Museum lobby, coming together to create A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces).A Field with Roots is comprised of three…
All Day
Visual Arts
Carlos Rolón: ALL WE HAVE IS RIGHT NOW
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Carlos Rolón’s works operate as memory capsules and as acts of preservation. The works also serve as a meditation on impermanence, survival, and the fragile beauty of the present moment. Rolón explores how histories of migration, colonialism, environmental devastation, and…
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Visual Arts
Edra Soto: the place of dwelling
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Edra Soto (b. 1971, Puerto Rico) alters and recontextualizes common functional objects—wrought-iron screens, plastic lawn furniture, and electric fans, ubiquitous in her native Puerto Rico—to create objects and environments that celebrate the voices of working-class communities. Soto’s installation, the place…
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Visual Arts
Norman Akers Navigates the Space Between
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Norman Akers has been mapping the world. His large canvases are filled with an interlayered web of cartographic iconography drawn from road maps, Osage philosophy, and his own visual vernacular. Through these maps, his images have become records documenting an…
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Visual Arts
Sport and Spectator
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Sport and Spectator celebrates the dynamic intersection of the visual arts and sports culture, presenting an array of works that transform sports imagery and equipment such as basketballs, helmets, and jerseys into artworks. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how…
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Exhibit
Timeless Mucha
Nelson-Atkins Museum Museum of Art
The special exhibition Timeless Mucha celebrates the visionary graphic work of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), whose elegant figures and whiplash lines came to define the Art Nouveau movement and transformed visual culture around the world.Featuring more than 100 works…
