Boston has the Citgo sign, Los Angeles has the Hollywood sign, and New York has the jumbotrons of Times Square. In Kansas City, we have Western Auto and Tension Envelopes signs. The city’s downtown skyline is brightened by the iconic silhouettes—even if most locals can’t tell you exactly what they’re advertising anymore.
Suppose you are April Watson, senior curator of photographs at the Nelson-Atkins. You can curate a show called “American Prospects and Landscape Photography, 1839 to Today,” but someone has to get the images out of storage and onto the walls of the Bloch Building. For that, you need a phenomenally talented human like Saori Lewis,… Continue reading How to Mount a Photography Exhibit
