Kansas City’s world-class arts scene
Many visitors to Kansas City, Mo., especially foreigners such as myself, expect to find a city “stuck in a time warp,” said Elizabeth Fullerton in the Financial Times. The “gleaming skyscrapers dominating its skyline” soon put an end to that illusion. It turns out that this bustling, thoroughly modern city at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers has a distinct art deco and European feel, augmented by more than 200 fountains. Not to be missed downtown is Country Club Plaza, “home to the city’s prime restaurants and designer shops.” The world-class arts scene is dominated by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, “a grandiose 1930s limestone structure” with a vast American and European collection. It recently added a glittering new expansion, and the selection of Asian art is especially impressive. The collections of Buddhist sculpture and Ming furniture are “among the finest examples in the West.”
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