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This retrospective exhibit, the last in a yearlong series curated by Kansas City Art Institute students, spotlights selected works from the rarely vie...

For artists, making the cover of Rolling Stone magazine has long been a coveted career achievement. For readers, the images of writers, filmm...

Kansas City artist Benjamin Todd Wills has corresponded with thousands of prisoners over the years. When one sent him a paper airplan...

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s leadership style as president reflected his practical, level-headed Midwestern roots: Work from the middle to accomplish what t...

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...

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...

A century and a half ago, trains hauling cattle and cowboys brought the real west from Amarillo, Texas, to Kansas City. Return trips carried a trove o...

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...