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Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster, 1844-2012 showcases a sampling of rare, beautiful political posters from the...

Efforts in Kansas City to combat blight and “renew” the city through redevelopment took off after World War II. But visionary ideas came at the expens...

Cuban-born Jesse A. Fernández (1925–1986) lived intermittently in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. With an extraordinary ability...

Images of familiar, even mundane environs can carry great intimacy, revealing something true about an individual and affirming life as a deep and comp...

Just a four-minute walk from Kansas City’s old First National Bank – now the home of the Central Library – some of the biggest names in American enter...

There are many people on the streets of Kansas City who go unnoticed and ignored – met routinely by shifted eyes, averted glances, and lowered heads....

The Library’s latest exhibit of the work of Orval Hixon, Kansas City’s early-20th century photographer to the stars, features his images of...

The Library opens a yearlong series of exhibits commemorating the 20th anniversary of the arts-nurturing Charlotte Street Foundation with the work of...

Through better than 80 photographs and other images – from scenes of pastoral picnics, holiday celebrations and parlor portraits to images of “the tro...

Glen Hansen specializes in art inspired by the architecture of cities like Paris, Prague, and Venice. Now he turns his pencils and br...