Artists Talk Kansas City Gentrification

A thematic interpretation of po'folk losing their property with the help of local government . . . Or maybe just a subtle reference so the creative class won't offend potential buyers. Take a look:

Kansas City's Building Boom, Two Artists Perspectives

Two concepts that speak of how re-urbanization in America looks today were shown in separate exhibitions across Kansas City, MO - Julie Schenkelberg: Solo Exhibition and New Paintings by Jason Needham. With very different processes, these artists critiqued a subtext as it relates to Kansas City's decade-long building boom.

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  1. Has anyone noticed how lame our art community is in Kansas City?

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    1. I don’t think lame is 100% correct. They just have no talent.

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  2. The real talent leaves town.

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  3. Art is now a "state of mind". A post modern pile of bull crap that talentless hacks can immerse themselves in because they haven't the discipline to obtain skill.
    Happy first Friday!

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  4. I don't understand art, seems 90 percent posture 10 percent the actual product

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  5. If only, the artist's wuld paint pictures of nascar. Or gun's.

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    1. OMG! Clever AF! Pat yourself on the back you hip intellectual, you!

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    2. My grandfather has a Nascar clock in his den, with the drivers eyes intensely peering over thru the open visor, it's Baddass af

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  6. Don, I'd say that it sounds to me like to understand it pretty well.
    Although I'd put it at about 99 percent to 1.

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  7. great stuff sorry if it's over the head of KC geezers.

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  8. 11:59 , I just don't comprehend the oohing and ahhing at a piece of string draped around a tin stool, esp at some 1st Fri gallery, I can appreciate classics like Rockwell or renaissance paintings from europe, even the old ancient figurines of early peoples, but this stuff in the xroads, push posh I say

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    1. Well thankfully nobody gives a fuck what you think.

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