For years now, we’ve been watching the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts evolve like a slow-motion crustacean. The two clamshell-bandshell forms with their big glass enclosure have grown…
Go almost anywhere in town these days, and you’re likely to hear someone say, “Isn’t it exciting?” or “I can’t wait to …
Without a doubt, it’s the curvaceous mass of metal, glass and strings that has heads turning. Forty-thousand square feet of glass, 25,000 cubic yards of concrete and 27 enormous steel cables will do…
October 1994 Philanthropist Muriel Irene McBrien Kauffman, widow of Ewing M. Kauffman, announces gifts of $1 million each to the Kansas City Symphony, the Lyric Opera, the State…
Through all the economic booms and busts of the last decade, one industry has consistently prospered: building and renovating performing arts centers. …
Without a doubt, it’s the curvaceous mass of metal, glass and strings that has heads turning. Forty-thousand square feet of glass, 25,000 …
Where to park. How to find it. What to wear.
16 years later, a performing arts center is born.
Go almost anywhere in town these days, and you’re likely to hear someone say, “Isn’t it exciting?” or “I can’t wait to …
A sound and light work commissioned for the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts garage will not be ready for the center’s Sept. 16-18 opening. Kansas City’s public art administrator, Porter…