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Keith Jacobshagen, famed prairie painter, finds essential and eternal in endless Nebraska sky

Keith Jacobshagen, an 84-year-old Nebraska painter renowned for his depictions of Great Plains landscapes, is facing the end of his painting career due to early-stage Alzheimer's disease. For over 50 years, he has produced more than 2,000 paintings, drawings, and prints focusing on the vast skies, cornfields, and grain elevators of flyover country. A solo exhibition, "The Shape of the Prairie," will be held at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art from May 15 through Aug. 16, and the Museum of Nebraska Art is planning a retrospective for 2027.

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After reopening, Joslyn Art Museum breaks visitor records, earns national acclaim

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, has broken visitor records and earned national acclaim in its first full year after reopening with a 42,000-square-foot addition. The new Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion, designed by Snøhetta and Alley Poyner Macchietto Architecture, opened in September 2024 and added 16,700 square feet of gallery space, 15,400 square feet of public gathering space, and new gardens. Through September 2025, the museum welcomed 159,420 visitors, on track to surpass 200,000—a milestone only reached a few times before, typically due to blockbuster traveling exhibitions like the Tutankhamun Treasures or Dead Sea Scrolls shows.

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Keith Jacobshagen, famed prairie painter, finds essential and eternal in endless Nebraska sky

After reopening, Joslyn Art Museum breaks visitor records, earns national acclaim