PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

 

We got back into Kansas City early Sunday afternoon and headed for the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. Its gorgeous new wing slides like a white tentacle down a gentle hill from the old main building. The collection of contemporary art is remarkable and of course, there is a photography gallery.                  

Send This To Washington

A copy of Rodin's The Thinker in front of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. It has become a cliche and isn't my favorite Rodin anyway (give me The Burghers of Calais any day)  but it makes a point. I usually avoid all but mild references to politics in this blog but that narcissistic wanna-be dictator in the White House and his spineless sycophants in Congress enrage me. Would that there were more, shall we say, rational and independent thinkers in our nation's capital. Not holding my breath.        

At The Nelson-Atkins

The temperature was one hundred degrees when we pulled into Kansas City yesterday afternoon. The wind itself was hot, not a bit refreshing. We were grateful that the Nelson-Atkins, KC's excellent art museum, had an underground garage.

We think it is one of America's best regional museums. Its photography section beats the heck out of what we have at home. Hallmark Cards, based here, had a spectacular collection of 6,500 images it donated to the museum a few years ago. The main current exhibition was about the photographers who worked for the government during the Depression. Most prominent were the images of Dorothea Lange, including one of the most famous and heart breaking pictures in the history of photography.     

Featured Exhibitions

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A final photo from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. No hint as to what those exhibitions may be. All will be explained around the corner. This is an example of the haunting beauty of the Bloch Wing's architecture. Note that this is a color image and has not been desaturated.

There may be an Arch photograph tomorrow if I can find a suitable one in the archives. No new material. Too many things competing for my attention.

What It's All About

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For all my fellow addicts, from the new Bloch Wing of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. See, I can make pictures that aren't all full of stuff like yesterday's.

Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City

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So said the song from the old Broadway musical Oklahoma! so forgive me while I post a couple more KC pix, pending some new local material. The city has a a very good gallery, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A new section, the Bloch Wing, opened three years ago and I got to see it for the first time Saturday. The architecture is brilliant, a series of glowing boxes dropping down the hillside perpendicular to the old museum building. The museum is known for its set of four badminton shuttlecocks by Claes Oldenburg on the lawns. This one's space is undergoing some repairs, which makes it all the more bizarre.

TOMORROW: photography gallery.