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Performance
5:00 am
Fri May 17, 2013

[VIDEO] Octarium Looks Back On A Decade Of Blending Eight Voices Into One

Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
Ensemble members rehearse in preparation for "Holidays with Octarium," Parkville Presbyterian Church in December 2012.

The signature style of the vocal group Octarium is eight singers, blended into one voice. After a decade of performances, this weekend marks the group's farewell concert. Octarium anticipates continuing to perform at least once a year, over the holidays.

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Visual Arts
12:00 pm
Wed May 15, 2013

Sculptural Pots With A Bit Of Glitter

The first floor galleries at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art are filled with glass display cases. Inside: the glittering black ceramics of Navajo artist Christine Nofchissey McHorse. Her abstract works bridge modern sculpture and traditional Southwestern pottery.

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Visual Arts
5:58 pm
Mon May 13, 2013

New President And CEO For The National World War I Museum

Credit courtesy National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial
New President and CEO, Matthew C. Naylor, PhD.

The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial on Monday announced Matthew C. Naylor, PhD, a native of Australia, as its new President and CEO.

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Performance
5:34 pm
Fri May 10, 2013

[VIDEO] Five Questions For Kansas City Ballet’s William Whitener

Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director William Whitener

This marks Artistic Director William Whitener's final season with the Kansas City Ballet. After 17 years with the company, he's preparing to return to New York. Whitener answered a few questions before the final performances.

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Visual Arts
1:49 pm
Fri May 10, 2013

Collector And Gallerist Byron Cohen Dies At 72

Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Byron Cohen, in front of one of Deng Wushu's works, at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery, 2009.

Kansas City gallery owner, art consultant and collector Byron C. Cohen died Friday morning. He was 72.

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Film
9:38 am
Fri May 10, 2013

‘Renoir’ A Portrait Of An Artist In Decline

Credit Courtesy Samuel Goldwyn Films
Michel Bouqet at work as "Renoir"

To look at the collected paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir is to see all possible colors and textures made more rich and tactile by the light. Gilles Bourdos’ evocative Renoir is less a comprehensive biography than a portrait of the man in his golden years (played with astonishing physical accuracy by Michel Bouquet) when his output is hardly dented at all by his physical impairments.

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