Julie Denesha

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art launched this week a global competition to design an ambitious expansion project that will transform its Midtown campus.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art launched this week a global competition to design an ambitious expansion project that will transform its Midtown campus; photo courtesy of The Nelson-Atkins Museum Of Art

Illustration students from the Kansas City Art Institute are inviting artists of all ages to help them complete colorful murals that are turning a neglected alleyway into a communal space for neighbors to gather.

Volunteer Kaelyn Whitt sprays a grave marker with biodegradable cleaning fluid to loosens lichen without damaging stone in Kansas City’s historic Union Cemetery. Whitt was attending a recent class to learn how to clean gravestones the proper way.

During the Halloween season—a trip to a cemetery can be part of a spooky adventure. But in one Kansas City cemetery, volunteers work to clean markers and tombstones in order to preserve history.

A 117-year-old historically-Black church in Missouri is getting much-needed restoration work thanks to a grant from the National Heritage fund — and a crew of about a dozen volunteer builders.

Lindsborg, Kansas, artist Lester Raymer is best known for paintings of round-faced circus clowns, acrobats and jaunty roosters. But in the Red Barn Studio where he once worked, handcrafted toys for his wife are the star of Christmastime.

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art's original, neoclassical revival building sits next to the more modern Bloch Building, designed by New York architect Steven Holl. They are surrounded by the 22-acre Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park.

Ron Megee as Ebenezer Scrooge is tormented by three spirits on Christmas Eve in the Unicorn Theatre’s campy production of "Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show.”

A five-year legal battle between the heirs of Missouri painter Thomas Hart Benton and the Kansas City Bank that handled his trust has ended with a judge awarding the family a fraction of the millions they sought.