Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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A World Class Museum In Kansas City
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
Last weekend I helped with the Museum'
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Current Exhibitions
The following exhibitions are FREE
After Ghostcatching
September 10, 2011 - December 31, 2011
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- After Ghostcatching evokes a mysterious realm inhabited by a disembodied figure comprised of ephemeral traces of color and light. The dancer's movements express a range of emotion, and his vocalizations seem not quite of this world.
The Photographs of Brett Weston
November 23, 2011 - March 25, 2012
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- While this exhibition includes key works from the Museum's Hallmark Photographic Collection, it draws primarily on-and is organized to celebrate-the generous gift of Christian K. Keesee, of Oklahoma City. The owner of the Brett Weston Archive, Mr. Keesee donated a group of 260 Weston prints to the Nelson-Atkins in late 2007.
Rodin
October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | RODIN | Sculptures from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation | October 1, 2011 - June 3, 2012 | FREE
- This exhibition brings together 40 bronze sculptures by Rodin from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, which aims to promote understanding and appreciation of the artist's achievements.
Landscapes East / Landscapes West
August 27, 2011 - February 26, 2012
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | What images come to mind when you think of landscapes?
- Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly
Location: Nelson-Atkins Building, Gallery 222 | admission is Free.
American Indian Art Galleries
Opened November, 2009
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- The American Indian Art Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | By Lee Rosenbaum - WSJ.com
- A $7.9 million redesign has quadrupled the available gallery space at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for what has suddenly become one of the country's most important museum collections of American Indian Art.
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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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T
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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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
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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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Past Exhibits
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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