When I go to Kansas City, I usually try to spend some time at the Kemper and Nelson-Atkins museums. I think in May I'll make the trip just to see these three shows (and eat at Jerusalem Café).
The Poetics of Space will run from April 10 until March 14, 2010 at the Kemper Museum. The exhibition is titled after Gaston Bachelard's 1958 classic treatise on the perception of space and will feature works by 17 photographers, including some of my favorites such as William Christenberry, Joel Meyerowitz, and Todd Hido.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum will show George Segal: Street Scenes between May 9 and August 2. The life-size sculptures in this traveling exhibit (curated by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) were inspired by his walks around lower Manhattan. And a collection of street photos by Homer Page, taken when he lived in New York on a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1949 and 1950, is already on display; the exhibition ends June 7.
My perception may be skewed due to years of research on urban space, psychogeography, maps, and the like, but I do get a sense that there is a renewed interest in images of the city and discussions of city space.
George Segal, Graffiti Wall (1990)
Photo: Donald Lakuta/George and Helen Segal Foundation
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