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Cuban-born Jesse A. Fernández (1925–1986) lived intermittently in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. With an extraordinary ability...

Four young men in Baltimore share their grief after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. A family of Syrian refugees weeps in joy after stepping off...

The Library opens a yearlong series of exhibits commemorating the 20th anniversary of the arts-nurturing Charlotte Street Foundation with the work of...

This new exhibit, in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico in Kansas City, spotlights the colorful, evocative works of many of Mexico’s top illus...

Intimate Riot introduces the fictional aesthetic of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Based on Alice’s early publis...

Images of familiar, even mundane environs can carry great intimacy, revealing something true about an individual and affirming life as a deep and comp...

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...

As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, "The apparel oft proclaims the man." The play, too. No less distinctive than the Bard's timeless text is t...

Nearly four centuries after its publication, one of the world’s rarest and most valuable books – the first collection of William Shakespeare’s plays –...

Artists across the United States and around the world were invited by Landfillart, Inc., a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit, to transform hundreds of disc...