Announcements
Memento # 5 Travels to New York
Our prominent Kerry James Marshall painting was deinstalled for a trip to New York’s New Museum for the exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, Jan. 27- June 13. Nelson-Atkins Director & CEO Julián Zugazagoitia talks about the importance of the exhibition — and our beloved painting.
Press Releases
Nelson-Atkins Begins Serial Release of French Paintings Catalogue
A 12-year scholarly project involving curators, conservators, scientists, and independent scholars at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City culminates with the launch of a digital catalogue of the museum’s French paintings and pastels.
Water Lilies Painting Focus of Immersive Experience at Nelson-Atkins
The beloved painting that has been the centerpiece for the Bloch Galleries at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, will be moved to a dedicated gallery for an exciting, immersive exhibition, Monet Water Lilies: From Dawn to Dusk, opening Feb. 12.
Nelson-Atkins Statement Regarding Reduction in Force
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art this week took measures to reduce the size of its staff, the result of the debilitating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ideals of Beauty, Female Figure Explored in Nelson-Atkins Exhibition
The exhibition Perfectly Imperfect: Cranach, Dürer and the Renaissance Nude compares and contrasts the female nudes of the two most important artists of the German Renaissance.
Trailers
Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali
Organized in collaboration with The Gordon Parks Foundation, this exhibition features approximately 55 photographs, many never before published.
Monet Water Lilies:
Come see Water Lilies as you’ve never seen it before in an exciting new exhibition.