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- Location:
- Kansas City, MO, 64111
- Phone:
- 816.751.1ART
- Wed:
- 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
- Thurs - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
- Sat:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sun:
- 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Current Exhibitions
Free admission: 
Without Place - Without Time - Without Body
September 26, 2009— January 17, 2010
Hide and Seek: Picturing Childhood
September 26, 2009— February 14, 2010
Events
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- Domestic Vacations: A Dailogue...
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Thursday, October 29 at 6:00pm - Drawing the Curtain Back: Rest...
Thursday, October 22 at 7:00pm - The Curator is IN! Ritual and ...
Friday, October 16 at 7:00pm - Drawing the Curtain Back
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Thursday, September 24 at 7:00pm - The Curator is IN!
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Friday, September 18 at 7:00pm - Quixotic: Surface
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Saturday, September 12 at 9:00pm - Electromediascope: Selected Wo...
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Friday, September 11 at 7:00pm - Artist's Lecture
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Thursday, September 10 at 6:00pm - The Curator is IN!
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Friday, August 21 at 7:00pm - TEDxKC
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Wednesday, August 19 at 6:00pm
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Did you see the new American Indian art galleries over the weekend? What did you think?
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Member Appreciation Weekend starts today! Enjoy a preview of the new American Indian galleries and much, much more!
Source: www.nelson-atkins.org
For 75 years members of the Nelson-Atkins have generously given contributions of time, money and meaningful works of art to help make this Museum a leader in the field and an educational resource for our community. ...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art New American Indian galleries debut this weekend for Museum members. Don't miss it!
Source: www.kansascity.com
We’re all familiar with totem poles and beaded moccasins, feathered headdresses and kachina dolls, but these well-known art forms don’t begin to encompass the richness of American Indians’ contributions to American art history. ...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Don't miss the big article in Sunday's Kansas City Star about the new American Indian galleries opening Nov. 11.
Source: www.kansascity.com
It’s the culmination of seven years of searching, spending, coaxing and borrowing for Gaylord Torrence, the mastermind behind the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s new American Indian galleries. ...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Curator Gaylord Torrence discusses the new American Indian art galleries on KCUR. Opening day is November 11.
kcur: : Curator Gaylord Torrence on Search, Discovery, and Surprise of American Indian Art Collectio
Source: www.publicbroadcasting.net
On November 11th, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens its new galleries dedicated to American Indian art, right next to the museum’s newly reinstalled American art galleries. At 6,100 square feet, the galleries are among the largest devoted to American Indian art in any comprehensive art museum.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art "I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day." Lewis Carroll from the poem "Solitude" (1853).
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Since photography’s inception in 1839, children have been popular subjects for the camera. We look to pictures of children as collective memories of childhood itself—a phase of life to which we can never return. ...
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Join Curator April M. Watson in conversation with Springfield, Mo.-based photographer Julie Blackmon for a discussion of her work and its relation to themes in the exhibition "Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood."
Blackmon's staged images of family life, inventive and often humorous, have gained national attention.
A boo...ksigning of her recent publication Domestic Vacations will take place after the lecture.
Tickets are free; call 816.751.1ART (1278) or nelson-atkins.org/calendar. Read More
Blackmon's staged images of family life, inventive and often humorous, have gained national attention.
A boo...ksigning of her recent publication Domestic Vacations will take place after the lecture.
Tickets are free; call 816.751.1ART (1278) or nelson-atkins.org/calendar. Read More
Time:6:00PM Thursday, October 29th
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Thanks to everyone who came to our Spot the Spooks and Spirits tour on Friday. It was scarily fun!
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art New American Indian galleries open to the public Nov. 11. Including a generous gift from the Sosland family.
Source: www.kansascity.com
Fifteen years ago, the Sosland family helped rebrand Kansas City as a dynamic place for art through the gift of four giant “Shuttlecocks” sculptures to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Today, the museum is announcing another extraordinary Sosland gift.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Party Arty tickets are on sale! Mark your calendars for 01.23.10 for a fabulous party.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Are you on our e-mail list? Sign up today for updates on exhibitions, programs, events and more.
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It may be cold and gloomy in KC today but it's warm and sunny in the Nelson-Atkins! Transport yourself to a field of flowers in our new exhibition "Without Place-Without Time-Without Body." http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Exhibit
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Congratulations on 15 years to our neighbors at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Thanks for keeping KC's art community going strong!
Source: www.kemperart.org
The Kemper Museum Of Contemporary Art, in Kansas City, Missouri, was built October 2, 1994.
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Favorite photo of the new American galleries. That's Monsignor James P. Turner by Thomas Eakins waiting at the end of the hallway. http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Collect
