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Nature of Art

The Barbizon School and Nature of Landscape exhibit opens at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum of Washington University from May 2 to July 21. Free and open to the public, the show celebrates a natural form of art, popular in Barbizon France between 1830-1880. In response to what was perceived as highly superficial city life in the nineteenth century, this form used rustic and pure scenes from nature in which man interacted more holisticall…... Read more >

Pairing the possibilities

6 Missouri wine trails blend wine, food, and fun By Barbara Gibbs Ostmann

One of the most popular ways to visit wine country is via a wine trail, and Missouri has several. The trails offer a user-friendly way to explore wine areas, with tips on top sights and attractions in each area. Most wine trails sponsor special themed events throughout the year.

Patty Held-Uthlaut of Stone Hill Winery at Hermann is the state’s wine trail div…... Read more >

Twain's Ammunition

By Roberta Moores   Missouri boasts movers and shakers in American political, literary, and cultural history. However, only one figure represents all three: Samuel Clemens, whose pen name, Mark Twain, has taken on mythical proportions. Columbia will be fortunate on April 29 to receive a return visit, of sorts, from Twain, in actor Hal Holbrook’s one-man show at a performance in the University Concert Series at Jesse Hall. In a 20…... Read more >

50 Miles of Art

By Lauren Foreman   Missouri’s 50 Miles of Art festival and semi-annual Studio and Gallery Tour decorate the cities of Hannibal, Louisiana, and Clarksville the weekend of April 27. For the last six years, this celebration has grown to include fifty-three artists and artisans and more than forty studios and galleries. Art aficionados can watch skilled local artists create a work of art and can later purchase those very pieces. Cla…... Read more >