Arts & Culture

The Tracks apartment project will be built on this parking lot next to the historic Freight House building.

Work to Begin on $52 Million Apartment Project in Freight House District

The 193-unit Tracks apartment project in the Freight House District is expected to break ground by the end of the year, two years after it was first proposed.

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Art House Extra | Tivoli Under the Stars

Tivoli Under the Stars is in the midst of a May-to-October run of outdoor, socially distant Friday evening movie screenings projected on the exterior of the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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Rosalie Gilbert says her husband Charles Gilbert has been a member of the State Historical Society of Missouri since his college years, and he was excited to come see its bicentennial exhibit in Columbia.

Missouri’s Bicentennial Quilt Stitches Together a State With Many Splits

The Missouri bicentennial quilt seeks to bring together an often divided state by collecting local stories from each of 114 counties.

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Martial Law, or Order No. 11, oil on linen, by George Caleb Bingham, 1868. The painting recalls the aftermath of the raid on Lawrence, Kansas, by Quantrill’s Confederate guerillas, when Union General Thomas Ewing authorized General Order No. 11, which forced thousands of civilians in three-and-a-half Missouri counties along the Kansas border to leave their homes.

Grappling With Dark Agonies Amid Natural Beauty During Missouri’s Bicentennial

As Missouri observes its bicentennial, organizers are grappling with a history defined both by natural beauty and the fight over slavery.

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Kinsey Leigh Redmond and Justen Jones co-star in "Accidental Family."

Art House Extra | ‘Accidental Family’ Could Make Your Weekend

Art House visits with the filmmakers behind “Accidental Family,” a romantic comedy that premieres tonight in St. Joseph, Missouri, where the movie was made.

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