Meat and Music

This giant meat thermometer is one of the art installations of Open Spaces KC that runs today through October. Artist Alexandre Arrechea says "Not every product that is produced and consumed within a city qualifies as a cultural marker of that city’s identity, but for Kansas City, meat and music serve as important exceptions. Since its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, Kansas City jazz and blues transformed how the rest of the world listened to American music, and its rapid economic growth as a center for processing and packing meat gave rise to its present-day fame as a Mecca of barbecue." You can see it in Swope Park. More to come.