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When Michael Mardikes began visiting Thomas Hart Benton at his home studio in Kansas City in 1956, his challenge was to capture an artist renowned...

The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...

In their current solo exhibitions Sanctuaries and kaleidoscope, Kansas City artists Amy and Misha Klig...

Barbara Strozzi defied the constraints of the times in which she lived. Born just over 400 years ago, gifted as a singer and composer, she was o...

Adrienne Walker Hoard began her long relationship with South Africa’s Ndzundza Ndebele people in 1996. The country was settling in...

Celebrate what made the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe great. The curated outdoor exhibition, staged in partnership...

Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...

There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...

For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity. The Kansas City artist launched the first of two ball...

Anita O’Brien, an original co-curator of the Library’s special traveling exhibit, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, d...