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Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi creates large-scale, figurative, and often text-based paintings, drawing from the tropes of history painting and cinema to probe systems of knowledge production, the politics of representation,

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Chinese Silk Textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties showcases fine examples of Chinese textiles from the Museum’s collection, including clothing, embroideries, hangings, and banners made between 1570 and 1911.

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In the dramatic years between the two world wars, German art ranged from an activist realism to a utopian idealism. This exhibition presents a selection of work that questions the

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents the first retrospective of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia) in over forty years. This exhibition will be the largest monographic exhibition of her

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and Nelly. It’s been home to

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In case you're interested in such things, Very Peri has only a few weeks left as Pantone's color of the year. It is being replaced in 2023 by Viva Magenta: This is no ordinary red, either! This year’s Color of The Year is powerful and empowering. It is a new animated red that revels in ...continue reading "Welcome to the magentaverse"

The fire took place just as city officials again threaten a public nuisance hearing for a building that has been tied to mayhem, including the shooting death of a 16-year-old in the building's lobby.

This column is written in the aftermath of two recent fatal shootings in mid-Missouri. One was two deaths in Jefferson City and the other in Columbia. Those incidents renewed questions I’ve had for years about how civilized citizens should respond to a growing environment that portrays lethal violence as entertainment. To understand this column, you […]

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Celebrate the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, who braved the unknown to provide a remarkable window into humankind’s closest living relatives – chimpanzees.   On Oct. 7, the

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The school district did not specify how significant the water main break was, or how long it was expected to last.

Grocery shoppers will soon to enjoy a revamped ALDI store in south St. Louis County.

Before Gary Pinkel is inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, his former athletics director gave a look at the 12-day job search from 2000.

An investigation is underway after a man died in a shooting that followed a confrontation with officers on Thanksgiving Day in Litchfield, Illinois.

The American economy gained 263,000 jobs last month. We need 90,000 new jobs just to keep up with population growth, which means that net job growth clocked in at 173,000 jobs. The headline unemployment rate remained at 3.7%. As usual these days, the biggest gains were in leisure and hospitality. The biggest losses were in ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Net new jobs in November"

Missouri’s largest operating holiday model train displays will be in the Earl C. Lindburg Automobile Center at the National Museum of Transportation this holiday season.   On Nov. 25, opening

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This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American culture from the 1960s to

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Kevin Johnson's daughter, Khorry Ramey, lost her last living parent on Tuesday after the Missouri Department of Corrections executed Johnson for the 2005 murder of Kirkwood police Sergeant William McEntee. A statewide activist group opposed to the death penalty are doing what they can to help.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem put on a bit of a performance this week by announcing that the state would be banning government employees from installing TikTok on their phones. The effort, according to the Governor, is supposed to counter the national security risk of TikTok sharing consumer data with the Chinese government: “South Dakota […]