Cockroaches Invade Kansas City Museum
"The Music Gallery: If Music had an Attic…" it would have giant bugs. At least, it would on Halloween. The Grand Arts gallery recently hosted a creepy exhibition entitled "American Cockroach," a multimedia exploration of the least-loved of our insect friends.

The cockroach is an unlikely subject for an art gallery, but Catherine Chalmers found dozens of innovative ways to examine the pest for her installation in Kansas City. The September 2003 issue of Discover magazine described how roaches came to the New World aboard slave ships, and even found their way into the Apollo 12 lunar mission spacecraft. Chalmers places them -- and resin replicas of the real thing -- into a variety of sculptures, videos and photographs. Unfortunately, perhaps, "no real cockroaches were harmed in the making of this exhibition."

Read the Discover magazine review of the show.

Browse the Chalmers exhibition page, which contains elaborate descriptions of all the various works that comprise it (including many pictures).

Visit the Grand Arts gallery in Kansas City.