Nelson-Atkins Museum’s Director To Retire After 28 Years

Marc Wilson, who took the helm of Kansas City’s top art institution in 1982, oversaw a massive transformation of the museum: the expansion of collections and launch of new departments, the growth of the board, the quadrupling of the staff, a new Learning Center, renovation of the Kansas City Sculpture Park, and the doubling of the museum’s space by opening the “luminous” Bloch Building, designed by Steven Holl.