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We finally got to see Barry Anderson’s exhibition, The Janus Restraint: Polychrome Ritual, at the beautiful Museum of Art + Light in Manhattan, Kansas. Through video, photography, sound, and installation, Anderson explores spirituality and ritual as ways of reconnecting with the natural world—and with the histories, memories, and beliefs that shape how we understand our place within it.

The exhibition is immersive and meditative, weaving together vivid imagery with symbols of reverence, monuments, altars, and geological forms. I especially loved the idea of ritual not as something belonging to the past, but as an enduring human impulse—a way of creating meaning, marking time, and finding our bearings in an increasingly disconnected world. So wonderful to experience Barry’s work in person and to spend some time exploring this incredible new museum in Manhattan! taken in The Museum of Art + Light by @museumartlight

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OpenSea is heading to Marfa! 🌵

Join us Oct 22–24 for @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend with three days of exhibitions, installations, artists, and more. taken in Marfa, Texas by @museumartlight

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Amazing showing for @dannyrozin talk on Sunday. We were all a buzz with "mirrors". From mechanical, proxxl, video, glass and more the audience was totally engaged. Thanks to our community for supporting this amazing kinetic artist who brought 1000s of visitors so much joy this past summer! We cannot wait to see what he dreams up next...A little trip to the seaside perhaps?

Special thanks to @joricheville @lisacaitlin @bitforms @edragotto @thoma_foundation @sydneybouhaniche #Kristypeterson @nathangwartney @kevin.dragotto for making it all come alive. taken in The Museum of Art + Light by @museumartlight

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What a Family Day!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for a packed afternoon of creativity, exploration, music, magic, and hands-on fun at the Museum of Art + Light.

Family Day is free for all to enjoy, helping make art, creativity, and discovery accessible to families throughout our community.

A special thank you to the Kansas Masonic Foundation and Lafayette Lodge #16 for their generous grant support, which helps make programs like Family Day possible and allows us to welcome our community at no cost.

We’re already looking forward to the next one. Join us for our next Family Day November 14th and discover another afternoon of art, activities, and experiences designed for the whole family.

Thank you, Manhattan, for showing up and making this one such a wonderful day. by @museumartlight

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See yourself reflected, transformed and reimagined through interactive artworks that blur the line between viewer and participant.

Interference: The Interactive Art of Daniel Rozin closes Sunday, September 27.

Make one more visit before it’s gone, and join us on closing day for In Conversation with Daniel Rozin, 2–3 PM. Hear directly from the artist about his work, creative process and the ideas behind the exhibition.

@dannyrozin @bitforms by @museumartlight

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23 days ago

new AR work in exhibition on view at Museum of Art + Light

#contemporaryart #videoart #fragmentsofspace taken in The Museum of Art + Light by @museumartlight

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24 days ago

This October, step inside the Mezmereyz Galleries (MEZ) for The Museum of Art + Fright, a special limited time after-hours Halloween event featuring two very different immersive experiences.

Choose your level of fright as the MEZ transforms into Scary House in MEZ 1, a family-friendly adventure filled with playful Halloween fun, or experience Into the Dark in MEZ 2, a much more intense immersive environment built for those looking for a serious scare.

Experience one or both. Just don’t expect an ordinary night at the museum. by @museumartlight

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There’s still time to make the most of September at MoA+L.

Creative Play + Cocktails: Artful Assemblage
September 24 | 5:30–8:30 p.m.

Family Day! Steampunk: Make It Move
September 26 | 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

In Conversation with Daniel Rozin
September 27 | 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Swipe through for details and make plans to join us before the month wraps up.

Link in bio! taken in The Museum of Art + Light by @museumartlight

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Headed to Manhattan for the Cats? 💜
Here’s where I’d eat, drink + explore while I’m there.

Save this one for your next weekend in MHK!

@visitmanhattan

#manhattanks #wildcats #food #drink #collegefootball taken in Manhattan, Kansas by @museumartlight

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Tomorrow we open two extraordinary exhibitions.

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at The Janus Restraint: Polychrome Ritual by @barryanderson as the exhibition takes shape inside MoA+L.

Color, form, light, and movement come together in an installation that transforms the gallery and invites you to step inside Anderson’s vivid visual world.

See the finished exhibition beginning tomorrow, September 4. by @museumartlight

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We’re open Labor Day!

Looking for something creative to do with your long weekend? Spend part of it with us at the Museum of Art + Light.

We’ll be open Monday, September 7, and we’d love to see you. by @museumartlight

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Delighted that GENERATION TO GENERATION: CONVERSING WITH KINDRED TECHNOLOGIES, a traveling show with @nathanielstern, opens September 4 at the @museumartlight in a gorgeous, sprawling installation that takes over the entire second-floor DE-CODED gallery.

The exhibition brings together six poem-projects we’ve created collaboratively since 2021, spanning generative art, sculpture, code, found materials, and experimental publishing:

THE WORD AFTER US (@fxhash)
STILL MOVING (@artblocks_io Curated, @lumestudios)
MOTHER COMPUTER (with MetCovery Foundry in Milwaukee)
THE E-WASTE LAND (made with material from the @uwmilwaukee Surplus Program)
FERAL FONT (@feralfile + @theverseverse)
ORAL BINARY (@fxhash)

Running throughout the exhibition is Neural Network Font Type, our custom AI-developed TrueType font, which visitors can freely download, “take home,” and use themselves — extending the project into new hands, new poems, new ideas... Spoken word soundscapes throughout are by @krisbones1.

The show is accompanied by a full-color catalog/user guide/poetry collection/art book published by @vetroeditions, co-created with @lucyscribbles and designed by @thegwenknutson, featuring complete texts of all six poems alongside artwork images and essays by @reg_ha, @clairesilveraiart, @ivonatau, @lillianyvonnebertram, @ian.z.wiese and more. There is also a documentary and footage of the making of works on view, and an interactive station with educational components designed especially for younger generations of visitors.

GEN TO GEN originated at @kraslartcenter with curator @engagementfromtheperiphery, and we’re thrilled it continues to evolve from one space to the next.

Huge thanks to the extraordinary MoA+L team — @edragotto @lisacaitlin @joricheville Kristy Peterson and more — whom I’ve had the privilege of working with since the museum opened, and to @iconic.culture.io for making the intro in the first place. And to Nathaniel’s great studio team comprised of so many students who are an indelible part of this project!

GEN TO GEN runs through early 2027 with special programming this November. Can’t wait to share it with you all soon! taken in The Museum of Art + Light by @museumartlight

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