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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City is recognized nationally and internationally as one of the nation's finest encyclopedic art museums. The Nelson-Atkins serves the community by providing access and insight into its renowned collection of more than 34,500 art objects, and is best known for its Asian art, European paintings and modern sculpture.
Housing a major art research library and the Ford Learning Center, the Museum is a key educational resource for the region, and a national model for arts education.
Housing a major art research library and the Ford Learning Center, the Museum is a key educational resource for the region, and a national model for arts education.
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At The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art there is always something new to discover. Our growing collection has fascinated, illuminated and exhilarated people since 1933. Come spend time with your favorites, see what's new on view or check out a featured exhibition.
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- Please note: the American Indian galleries and part of the American galleries are currently closed due to renovation. Other galleries, including the Chinese collection, may be closed as needed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The American galleries will open in spring 2009 and the American Indian galleries will open in November 2009. For updates on the construction progress, see our blog. - Blog @ the Nelson-Atkins
- Blog @ the Nelson-Atkins is the place to find out the latest about the Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins Building and the Kansas City Sculpture Park. Sound off here about your experiences and be inspired for your next visit. July 22, 2009 Locally Grown
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art American Paintings
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Current Exhibitions
The following exhibitions are FREE
American Indian Art Galleries Opening
November, 2009
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Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life
April 28, 2009 - November 8, 2009
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Decorative Designs, Decorative Landscapes and Still Life
Starr Miniature Collection: The Fashionable Sitter
June 13, 2009-January 10, 2010
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- Starr Miniature Collection: The Fashionable Sitter Still Life: 19th and 20th Century Prints and DrawingsAsian Influence on American CeramicsGeorge Segal: Street Scenes
Still Life: 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings
June 13, 2009 - January 10, 2010
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- Still Life: 19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings
Asian Influence on American Ceramics
June 9, 2009 - January 24, 2010
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- Asian Influence on American Ceramics
Without Place-Without Time-Without Body
September 26, 2009 - January 17, 2010
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- Without Place-Without Time-Without Body
Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood
September 26, 2009 - February 14, 2010
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Recent Exhibits
Inventing the Shuttlecocks
May 9, 2009-August 16, 2009
Today, Shuttlecocks is a beloved icon for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and for Kansas City, but it wasn't always so. When the husband-and-wife artist team, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, installed it in the Museum's Kansas City Sculpture Park in 1994, Shuttlecocks created quite a stir.
The 15th anniversary exhibition of this remarkable work offers a rare opportunity to enter the artists' minds as they invented Shuttlecocks.
Location: Bloch Building, Gallery L8
The 15th anniversary exhibition of this remarkable work offers a rare opportunity to enter the artists' minds as they invented Shuttlecocks.
Location: Bloch Building, Gallery L8
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hey first generated the sort of controversy that often greets unconventional public art, but have largely been embraced by the community as one of Kansas City's iconic sights. SCOTT CANON, The Kansas City Star'
The Shuttlecocks
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Four 18-foot-tall "Shuttlecocks" were installed on the lawn of the Nelson in 1994. One shuttlecock is located on the north side of the building and three are located on the south lawn.
Each shuttlecock is eighteen feet tall, weighs 5,500 pounds, and has a diameter of 16 feet. Each one is situated at a different angle. Three lie on one side of the building, and the beginning shuttlecock is at the front entrance.
The critic, art historian and artist Coosje van Bruggen was known for the colorful, oversized public sculptures she created in collaboration with her husband, Claes Oldenburg.
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George Segal: Street Scenes
May 9, 2009 - August 2, 2009
George Segal: Street Scenes is the first exhibition of this renowned sculptor's work to focus on a single theme: the city.
Spanning four decades, from the 1960s through the 1990s, the exhibition includes more than a dozen large sculptures. Through these works, Segal chronicled the ever-evolving dynamics of the city from the quiet nostalgia of The Diner (1964-66) to more contemporary references such as punk art graffiti in Dumpster (2000).
This webpage is organized to approach Segal's work through two themes: The Human Condition and Urban Life.
Spanning four decades, from the 1960s through the 1990s, the exhibition includes more than a dozen large sculptures. Through these works, Segal chronicled the ever-evolving dynamics of the city from the quiet nostalgia of The Diner (1964-66) to more contemporary references such as punk art graffiti in Dumpster (2000).
This webpage is organized to approach Segal's work through two themes: The Human Condition and Urban Life.
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George Segal: Street Scenes
George Segal: Street Scenes
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Stone and Feather
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Stone & Feather: Steven Holl Architects / Nelson-Atkins Museum Expansion
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Museum Expansion
In 1993, the museum began to consider expansion plans. Plans called for a 55 percent increase in space - to be the first addition to the building - and were finalized in 1999.
Architect Steven Holl won an international competition in 1999 for the design of the addition. Holl's concept was to build five glass towers on the east side of the building. Holl calls them lenses, and they top a 165,000 square-foot building, all of it except for the lenses underground, called the Bloch building. It is named for H&R Block co-founder Henry W. Bloch. The Bloch building houses the museum's contemporary, African, photography, and special exhibitions galleries as well a new cafe, the museum's reference library, and the Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Court. The addition (which cost about $95 million), opened June 9, 2007, and is part of $200 million in renovations to the museum including the Ford Learning Center, home to classes, workshops, and resources for students and educators, which opened in fall of 2005.
Architect Steven Holl won an international competition in 1999 for the design of the addition. Holl's concept was to build five glass towers on the east side of the building. Holl calls them lenses, and they top a 165,000 square-foot building, all of it except for the lenses underground, called the Bloch building. It is named for H&R Block co-founder Henry W. Bloch. The Bloch building houses the museum's contemporary, African, photography, and special exhibitions galleries as well a new cafe, the museum's reference library, and the Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Court. The addition (which cost about $95 million), opened June 9, 2007, and is part of $200 million in renovations to the museum including the Ford Learning Center, home to classes, workshops, and resources for students and educators, which opened in fall of 2005.
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The Bloch Building
The 2001 "America's Best Architect" by Time Magazine, Steven Holl, dubs his project as "a scatter of lenses fused in the landscape". Contrast and variation are main theme in the design, as he said.By using different gradations of light in the building, Holl intended to bring a fluttering effect. Echoes of the lantern effect can be found here, includes a string of oversize skylights bulging from the institution's stately lawn, glow like a towering Japanese lantern.
Bluish light flows in from the north end, gradation to the warm, yellowish light that flows in from the south end. There are nine different shades of light glowing in the building, and the effect varies depending on the time of day.
"The light is working in this building like sound does in music," says Holl, explaining that his concept is like cuts through darkness as sound cuts through silence.
The Sixth Surface; Steven Holl Lights The Nelson-Atkins Museum
The Sixth Surface; Steven Holl Lights The Nelson-Atkins Museum
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The 165,000 Square-Foot Expansion
The new Bloch Building, named in honor of Henry W. Bloch, Chairman of The Nelson-Atkins Board of Trustees, and his wife Marion, opened June 7, 2007 with a major exhibition, "Monet to Maatisse", Impressionsist Masters from the Marion and Henry Block Collection.
The slender, elongated extension runs 840 feet along the edge of the Museum's Sculpture Park and provides a delicate counterpoint to the Beaux-Arts Nelson-Atkins. The Bloch Building is a significant work of contemporary architecture, weaving through the landscape with partially submerged galleries and elevated glass lenses rising from the lawn.
In 2007, TIME Magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building, # 1 on the "The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels" list.
The slender, elongated extension runs 840 feet along the edge of the Museum's Sculpture Park and provides a delicate counterpoint to the Beaux-Arts Nelson-Atkins. The Bloch Building is a significant work of contemporary architecture, weaving through the landscape with partially submerged galleries and elevated glass lenses rising from the lawn.
In 2007, TIME Magazine ranked the museum's new Bloch Building, # 1 on the "The 10 Best (New and Upcoming) Architectural Marvels" list.
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Resting Places Living Things
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Designs by Michael Cross
October 18, 2008-April 5, 2009
Cross utilizes the Project Space in ways that will challenge its parameters: the wooden floor will feature hills and valleys, a chair will respond to a visitor's approach, tree branches will support books, and walls will become resting places.
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam
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Art in the Age of Steam
September 13, 2008-January 18, 2009
Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway, 1830-1960
Location: Bloch Building, Galleries L13 and L14
"We feel ourselves as powerful as the sorcerers of old! We put our magic horse to the carriage and space disappears; we fly like clouds in a storm!"
Hans Christian Andersen, Railway Readings, 1847
No industrial development has had such a sudden and transforming effect as the steam railroad. Within a few years of trains' first use ca. 1830, their speed increased to at least three times that of road coaches, and the volume of passenger and freight traffic far surpassed any other form of transport.
This exhibition shows how artists responded to the railroad, especially in Europe and the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, artists concentrated on feats of railroad engineering, the railroad as a focus for human drama, as a setting to explore light and atmosphere and as a symbol of reflective states of mind. Not until after the First World War did artists begin to celebrate the railroad as a mechanical marvel. The exhibition is organized-and the story told-in six sections:
The Formative Years in Europe
Human Drama
Crossing Continents: American and Beyond
Impressionists and Post Impressionists
States of Mind
The Machine Age
Location: Bloch Building, Galleries L13 and L14
"We feel ourselves as powerful as the sorcerers of old! We put our magic horse to the carriage and space disappears; we fly like clouds in a storm!"
Hans Christian Andersen, Railway Readings, 1847
No industrial development has had such a sudden and transforming effect as the steam railroad. Within a few years of trains' first use ca. 1830, their speed increased to at least three times that of road coaches, and the volume of passenger and freight traffic far surpassed any other form of transport.
This exhibition shows how artists responded to the railroad, especially in Europe and the United States. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, artists concentrated on feats of railroad engineering, the railroad as a focus for human drama, as a setting to explore light and atmosphere and as a symbol of reflective states of mind. Not until after the First World War did artists begin to celebrate the railroad as a mechanical marvel. The exhibition is organized-and the story told-in six sections:
The Formative Years in Europe
Human Drama
Crossing Continents: American and Beyond
Impressionists and Post Impressionists
States of Mind
The Machine Age
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Rising Dragon: Ancient Treasures from China
Rising Dragon: Ancient Treasures from China
October 6, 2007-February 10, 2008
From the Nelson Atkins Webpage:
The extraordinary objects in this exhibition, spanning 5,000 years of Chinese creativity, are presented for the first time to any public audience. The selection and organization of this exhibition rest on the belief that when a work of art attains a supreme level of artistic achievement, it can provide a moving aesthetic experience that is worthwhile and sufficient in and of itself. The level of artistic achievement of each work rests at the pinnacle of its type, both in terms of conception and execution.
The objects echo, each in their own way, common concerns fundamental to humankind past and present: 1. the mystery of existence, 2. fear of oblivion at death, and 3. the nature of a society beneficial to its members. We have evolved mythologies, religions, philosophies, governments, customs and practices and all manner of technologies to address these fundamental issues. They have motivated the creation of much of what we today call art.
All the works in this exhibition have been motivated by at least two of these three human concerns. Despite the achievement of each, no maker's name is known. In the end, the objects are eloquent but anonymous sentinels of humankind's relentless quest to understand ourselves and our world. The makers have expressed the interface of those two concerns through visual means that can communicate meaningfully to others, even though centuries and oceans separate us.
This exhibition was supported by the Hall Oriental Fund and the Blakemore Foundation. Midwest Airlines was the official airline sponsor.
The extraordinary objects in this exhibition, spanning 5,000 years of Chinese creativity, are presented for the first time to any public audience. The selection and organization of this exhibition rest on the belief that when a work of art attains a supreme level of artistic achievement, it can provide a moving aesthetic experience that is worthwhile and sufficient in and of itself. The level of artistic achievement of each work rests at the pinnacle of its type, both in terms of conception and execution.
The objects echo, each in their own way, common concerns fundamental to humankind past and present: 1. the mystery of existence, 2. fear of oblivion at death, and 3. the nature of a society beneficial to its members. We have evolved mythologies, religions, philosophies, governments, customs and practices and all manner of technologies to address these fundamental issues. They have motivated the creation of much of what we today call art.
All the works in this exhibition have been motivated by at least two of these three human concerns. Despite the achievement of each, no maker's name is known. In the end, the objects are eloquent but anonymous sentinels of humankind's relentless quest to understand ourselves and our world. The makers have expressed the interface of those two concerns through visual means that can communicate meaningfully to others, even though centuries and oceans separate us.
This exhibition was supported by the Hall Oriental Fund and the Blakemore Foundation. Midwest Airlines was the official airline sponsor.
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