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7/1/2009 3:37 PM

This Independence weekend is the perfect opportunity to celebrate America's history with a tour of the Museum's new galleries of American art. The new installation features paintings and works on paper mixed with sculpture and decorative arts. It is....Read More

Street Art

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

As you exit the current exhibition George Segal: Street Scenes, you might notice a table with black construction paper and chalk. This is an opportunity for visitors to share their thoughts about the exhibition through drawings or notes. I....Read More

Fun Friday Photos

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

We get a lot of requests to do photo shoots at the Nelson-Atkins. For commercial shoots or ones that require some assistance, we escort the photographers during their work. They are usually pretty fun. We've had fashion models, ballerinas,....Read More

Sculpture Park Gets TLC from Local Volunteers

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

A group of volunteers from FRD Communications, Inc. helped apply wax to Standing Figures (Thirty Figures) one day last week. FRD Communications gives employees two days per year to volunteer and this work group choose to help the Nelson-Atkins. First,....Read More

Pas de 22

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

Yesterday was my first day as a marketing intern at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Randy Attwood, the Museum’s Media Relations Officer, directed my co-intern Caitlin and myself in escorting 22 ballerinas from the Legacy Ballet Company for a....Read More

Jumping for Joy

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I must preface this post with a shout out to the sensational blog Jumping in Art Museums. We loved the idea so much that we starting our own jumping....Read More

Fighting Shuttlecock Decay

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

The Museum’s Education Office has a fantastic view of one of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Shuttlecocks. I’m used to catching glimpses of people doing all sorts of things near the birdie, but the scene I witnessed yesterday was....Read More

Picture Perfect

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

Shuttlecocks created a lot of controversy when they first appeared on the Museum's lawn in 1994. Outraged citizens wrote letters to the editor of the Kansas City Star and editorial cartoons popped up about what a waste of money....Read More

Upright Again

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

A few weeks ago I wrote about the conservation going on for the Henry Moore sculpture Upright Motive. The sculpture was reinstalled in the Kansas City Sculpture Park on Monday, and I got a few details from Robert, the Conservation....Read More

Silence of Communication

7/1/2009 3:37 PM

Today I got my first look at two new exhibitions opening this weekend, George Segal: Street Scenes and Inventing the Shuttlecocks. These exhibitions are part of the All-American Summer which celebrate many things including the 20th anniversary of the....Read More