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Glass and metal artists Teri Walker and Chad Ridgeway are bringing the magic of New Orleans to Third Degree Glass for a two-month exhibition titled, The Many Faces of Mardi […]

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Born in Watford City, North Dakota in 1985, artist Teresa Baker lives and works in Los Angeles, and she’s an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes in the Great […]

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Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1971, Haegue Yang is known for her versatile works, ranging from room-scaled installations and performative sculptures to paper collages and staged performances. Yang dissociates […]

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Artist Jennie C. Jones explores the intersections between the visual and the acoustic with paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations, and this year, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation will present two concurrent […]

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This fall, the Saint Louis Art Museum will present a landmark exhibition of the work of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Featuring […]

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Explore the legacy of America’s oldest continuously drawn daily cartoon in Behind the Feathers: A Century of Weatherbird History. Since 1901, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Weatherbird has offered wit, commentary, […]

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Now open at the World Chess Hall of Fame & Galleries, Charles Houska: Master of Play is a retrospective of the St. Louis artist’s work over his impressive 25-plus-year career, […]

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For more than 150 years, St. Louisans have entrusted the Missouri Historical Society with countless objects: photographs, diaries, home movies, clothing, books – items that future generations can turn in […]

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The 1904 World’s Fair was a fascinating yet complex event that continues to evoke a range of emotions. It was grand and shameful. It was full of fun and full […]

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Aisha Sultan writes: Missouri’s trapped in a persistent, downward cycle of not investing in public education and losing its brightest and talented young adults because better opportunities lure them elsewhere.

More Missouri public school students could receive gifted education under two proposals debated by the House Education Committee Thursday. State Rep. Brenda Shields, a Republican from St. Joseph, is sponsoring a bill that would require schools to screen all students to determine if they qualify as gifted before they reach third grade. She estimates that […]

This week the Missouri State Board of Education voted to lower St. Louis Public Schools’ accreditation status to “provisional.” On the same day, Governor Mike Kehoe signed an executive order requiring state education leaders to create a new way to evaluate school districts. Education reporter Hiba Ahmad breaks down a big week of education news.

Missouri cannabis regulators have changed their guidance on whether or not medical marijuana patients can purchase from licensed dispensaries as a regular consumer, following complaints over the last year that the state’s policy was an unconstitutional restriction. But the update ended up causing more confusion about what patients can or can’t do, cannabis advocates say.  […]

ST. LOUIS - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. weekend is here, but it will come with lingering frigid temperatures. Despite the cold, several events are scheduled, including one tied to the Mardi Gras season and another celebrating MLK Day. SLSO Community Concert - Let it Resound: The Legacy of Black Composers  Friday, Jan. 16 at [...]

House Bill 2933, filed by Rep. Brad Christ on Tuesday, a south St. Louis County Republican, would allow districts to withdraw from Special School District.

Like other cases involving past police liability, city of St. Louis argues new local control bill shifts responsibility to the state.

ST. LOUIS - It's possible to see a few sprinkles or flurries through Friday morning, but impacts are not anticipated. It will be mostly cloudy and breezy, with temperatures rebounding to the mid 40s. Scattered snow showers will develop Friday afternoon and move southeast through the evening along with another cold front. These snow showers [...]

Two of Van Morrison’s iconic albums, 1968’s Astral Weeks and 1970’s Moondance, are the first releases of the new Acoustic Sounds 40th Anniversary Series, part of a partnership between Analogue…

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