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No artist captured the people and landscape of early 20th-century Missouri more than native son Thomas Hart Benton. As a child growing up in southwest...

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

Hollywood actors from a Star Trek-like TV show (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell) get mistaken for...

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

Nearing the start of the 15th annual KC Fringe Festival—a two-week performing and visual arts extravaganza spread across multiple...

Writer Claire L. Evans, a contributor to Vice, The Guardian, and Wired and former editor of the multiplatf...

As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his presid...

One of Saturday Night Live’s signature comedy sketches gets the big-screen treatment, following Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as stranded cone-...

The Library punctuates a months-long study of immigration in America with a look into the personal journeys of immigrants who have settled in the Lawr...

Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expre...