Lawrence Art Guild members will gather Monday for “Movie Night, Materials Exchange and Artist Show and Tell.” Artists are welcome to bring any materials they would like to sell, trade or simply give away. The guild also will present the film “Robert Rauschenberg: MAN AT WORK.” One of ...

Should there be a federal secretary of the arts?Legendary music producer Quincy Jones thinks so. And in an online petition (as of this morning), he has more than 111,000 supporters.Jones made the comment back in November that the next time he talked with soon-to-be-president Barack Obama, he ...

Some of the top collegiate actors and actresses will be in Lawrence starting Sunday for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s regional competition.About 1,600 theater students from around 100 colleges and universities will be in Lawrence as Kansas University hosts the annual ...

A reminder to fans of the Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University: The museum is trimming its hours starting today.The Spencer will close an hour earlier each day. The new hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday (except open through 8 p.m. Thursdays), noon-4 p.m. Sundays and closed ...

Welcome to Follow Your Art, LJWorld.com’s new arts and entertainment blog.I’m Terry Rombeck, the features and special sections editor at the Journal-World.First things first: I know Follow Your Art is a cheesy title (get it? Like “follow your heart”). I thought of it, groaned and ...