Exhibitions | Kansas City Public Library

Remembering Gabriella Polony Mountain: Art ‘Was My Passion’

Friday, May 22, 2020

Gabriella Polony Mountain was passionate, expressive, indelible. And so was the art  created by the namesake of the Rocky and Ga...

From Art to Artifacts: Remembering the 1976 Republican National Convention

Friday, August 9, 2019

This week marks 43 years since Ralph Steadman visited a muggy Kansas City to cover the 1976 Republican National Convention for...

Steadman Retrospective Still Going Gonzo at the Library

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Exhibitions

The ink-splattered exhibit Ralph Steadman: A Retrosp...

Special Library Exhibit Spotlights Ralph Steadman’s Distinctive, Gonzo-esque Artwork

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Exhibitions

Artist Ralph Steadman is known for his creative collaboration with writer Hunter S. Thompson, matching outrageous illustrations to Th...

Is reading about art like dancing about architecture? If an artist sits in a vacant gallery, is it art? If an author writes a novel with a real person as a character is it fiction? An FYI Book Group discussion of Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose held at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art had book and art lovers pondering these very questions. Readers also had the chance to pose their questions to the author, who dropped in via Facetime from her home in Hobart, Tasmania.

FYI Book Group explores relationships with art and people in 'Museum of Modern Love'

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Book Group

Readers Services

Exhibitions

Is reading about art like dancing about architecture?  If an artist sits in a vacant gallery, is it art? If an author writes a novel with a real...

Library Exhibit Explores Messages of Mass Incarceration

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Exhibitions

Signature Events

Criminal Justice

Kansas City artist Benjamin Wills’ outreach to inmates began with letters of support to two acquaintances serving prison terms. Wills...

Anne Ducey, Kansas City Public Library's exhibit director.

Record Crowds, Interested Artists: Library Emerges as an Art Destination

Monday, November 19, 2018

Exhibitions

Nearly 103,000 people visited eight exhibits in Central Library's first-floor Genevieve Guldner and second-floor Rocky and Gabriella Polony Mountain g...

Cartooning pioneer Will Eisner helped develop a new style of visual storytelling: the graphic novel. Eisner's work is the focus of a Library exhibit currently on display at the Central Library: Will Eisner: The Centennial Celebration, 1917-2017. As part of the exhibit, the Library recaps a recent presentation about Eisner’s impact on artists and readers alike, plus we highlight some notable titles in our graphic novel collection – both physical and digital.

Getting into "The Spirit" of Graphic Novels

Friday, August 3, 2018

Books

Signature Events

Exhibitions

Cartooning pioneer Will Eisner helped develop a new style of visual storytelling: the graphic novel. Eisner's work is the focus of a...

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