When Elissa Cahn takes friends to see the Saint Louis Art Museum’s exhibition “Aymara Weavings: The Indigenous Andes,” she is not simply showing them textiles. She is walking them through what remains. On the walls are skirts, tunics and mantles...

  A neon-colored abstract painting. A photographer documenting queer nightlife. A ceramicist whose work has nothing to do with menorahs, Hebrew letters or ritual objects. At this year’s Sababa Jewish Arts & Culture Festival, organizers...

People know I’m very much involved in the arts, so I’m often stopped with questions about it. Lately, the question I keep hearing is: What exactly is St. Louis’ Counterpublic Triennial? A counterpublic triennial is a large-scale contemporary art...

HOUSTON, Mo. — When Luigi Toscano was growing up in Germany, he was frustrated by how little he learned about his country’s role in World War II atrocities. That experience led him to create “Lest We Forget,” a Holocaust awareness project that...

  The Art Gallery at Congregation B’nai Amoona’s new spring and summer exhibit will feature the works of fine art photographers David Coblitz, Mark Fisher and Bud Hirsch, metal sculptor Dale Dicker, and fused glass artist Nikki Goldstein....

I have never lived alone. I’ve never even lived with only my partner, at least not for all that long. We’ve always had roommates. And that means we’ve always had roommates’ stuff. Honestly, I’ve loved this. I mean, I’ve had my issues...

As the weather heats up, the lure of enticing cultural events pulls people out to hear live music, see a play, tour an exhibit, sit spellbound at an opera, linger at a flower show, attend a dance concert or enjoy a special outing with the kids or grandkids....

Like many artists searching for their next idea, St. Louis ceramicist Sandy Kaplan started by looking backward in order to move forward. While reading about Pablo Picasso and the women who shaped his work, Kaplan found herself drawn to the stories behind...

  Ever since it opened in 2003, I’ve felt a small jolt of pride driving down Washington Boulevard toward the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The building has always looked like something you’d expect to find in Los Angeles, Chicago...

  There’s a moment in a young artist’s life when their work graduates from the refrigerator door to something a little more official, and you start to wonder what happens when people outside the family see it. That moment is on the walls...

  I’ll be honest. When I first read the announcement for the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum’s next exhibition, one focused on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, I paused. Japanese American incarceration?...