For the cover of the June 2, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson features Marshall W. (Major) Taylor leading a parade of bicyclists from eras past and present. “I wanted to pay tribute to the most ...

In 1979, the first Major Taylor Cycling Club was founded in Columbus, Ohio. One of its members, Phil Alloy, was so inspired ...

A mural of Jackie Robinson, the first Black American to play Major League Baseball in 1947, in Overtown has been defaced with ...

The mural’s defacing galvanized the Overtown community, who called for more of a police presence around Dorsey Park, once home to the Negro Leagues’ Ethiopian Clowns.​ ...

Oil portrait of Barack Obama by Kadir Nelson Kadir Nelson This ... “History will tell,” says Nelson, a Los Angeles artist who specializes in African-American subjects and is working on ...

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set to open in 2026 in Los Angeles, is announcing a leadership change with the departure of Sandra Jackson-Dumont in 2025 and a strategic restructuring under the ...

The museum will contain all kinds of visual storytelling from painting, photography, sculpture, comic art and video. It will house works from Norman Rockwell, Carrie Mae Weems, Kadir Nelson ...

That means, among other things, more hours to play miniature golf at the Nelson-Atkins Museum’s Art Course. It also means James Throckmorton will stay plenty busy. The owner of Small Planet ...

“Survival of the Fittest: Picturing Wildlife and Wilderness” is on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art through August 24, 2025.

The first dedicated auction of Iraqi Modernism anywhere in the world, held yesterday at Bonhams London, set several new world records and made a total of £1,237, 250. Most of the artists in the sale ...

The Kansas City Star - Video See what it takes to maintain mini-golf Art Course at Nelson Museum Posted: May 24, 2025 | Last updated: May 24, 2025 Summer brings expanded hours at the museum's one ...