Looking for a Valentine’s Day gift? Some hand-crafted options will be featured in a pair of art shows this weekend.Van-Go Mobile Arts, 715 N.J., will host its “Have a Heart” sale from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday. Items featured will include decorative dishes (above), hand-made cards, ...

An opera that is nearly 130 years old is getting a fresh coat of paint starting this weekend at Kansas University.KU Opera is staging Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Patience,” a satirical look at the “aesthetic craze” of the 1870s and 1880s in England during the boom of poets, composers, ...

Some of my favorite things to photograph — and, frankly, some of the things I love most about Lawrence — are the vibrant trees that line Old West Lawrence and the KU campus in the fall.A friend asked me to photograph some for his living room last year, and the hours I spent walking around, ...

In honor of Kansas Day, I thought I’d pose the question: What visual artist or piece of art from the Sunflower State is your favorite?Go ahead and hammer me for being cliche, but I’ve loved John Steuart Curry since I was a kid. There was something about seeing the John Brown painting in the ...

Two Lawrence authors will be honored Sunday with Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards.The awards, given annually by the Lawrence Arts Center’s Committee on Imagination and Place and The Raven Bookstore, encourage authors who have never published a book to finish a manuscript.This year’s ...

Three longtime artists whose works have spanned more than a half-century each will be featured in an exhibit starting Sunday at Baker University.Tom Russell, Baldwin City; Will Niewald, Kansas City, Mo.; and Bob Sudlow, Lawrence, will have paintings included in “60 Years! Three Dedicated ...