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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...

A mother and son walk hand in hand through a makeshift refugee camp in northern Greece. Candidate Trump gets full-throated support from a young discip...

Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid is best known for her beaded tapestries, featuring visionary and surreal imagery, scenes of n...

Richard Berkley spent considerable time on both sides of the camera lens – as the longest-serving mayor in Kansas City’s history and...

Lucile Bluford — for whom the Library’s L.H. Bluford Branch is named — played a key role in the eventual elimination of t...

Gabriella Polony Mountain’s generosity made the Library’s newest art gallery possible. Appropriately, as the gleaming exhibit space o...

Roughly a four-block section of Kansas City’s east-side Wendell Phillips neighborhood no longer exists, at least as it once did. Dozens...

Faye Schulman wanted the world to know: Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter during World War II. They mounted resistance against their Nazi op...

In 1956, Thomas Hart Benton invited young photographer Michael Mardikes into his Kansas City studio and home. Of the resulting 1,080 photos Mardikes c...

Armin Mühsam’s work has evolved over time. Where once he imbued his architectural landscapes with politics, speaking to mankind’s inf...