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Cataloging the First Folios

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a ra...

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Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...

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Hurt People

Thursday, March 10, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Cote Smith sets his debut novel in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas, drawing from his experiences growing up there....

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Evicted

Monday, March 14, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

For two years, Harvard University social sciences professor Matthew Desmond embedded himself in two poor neighborhoods in Milwauke...

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Measured Space - Brian Caponi, Shawn Murrey, Thomas Schmidt

Thursday, March 17, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The three artists behind the new exhibition Measured Space – on display in the Rocky and Gabriella Mountain Gallery through May 22...

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The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qa’ida - Flagg Miller

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...

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The Nuremberg Trials - Mark M. Hull

Tuesday, April 5, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Seventy years ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson called the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg “the greatest tribute power ha...

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Measured Space

March 16, 2016 - May 22, 2016

Central Library

This new exhibition, featuring the ambitious sculptural works of three teaching artists, employs a range of materials and fabrication processes in exp...

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5th District Voyage of Artistic Discovery

Saturday, April 9, 2016 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

The Kansas City Public Library plays host to the annual Missouri 5th Congressional District student art exhibit and celebration, a...

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First Folio: A 400-year Celebration

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen ti...

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