No Shortage of Art in March
By Michelle “Mike” Ochonicky, Healthy Planet Arts Editor
Image: Shifting Times, performed by Karlovsky & Company Dance
The Pulitzer celebrates its 25th anniversary with Dialogues & Conversations, works by 35 artists from Degas to Giacometti to Salcedo. Some 90 sculptures, drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs, from late 19th century to the present, “converse” with art from Mrs. Pulitzer’s vast private collection, which she assembled over many decades independently and with her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. She helped to acquire the masterworks while a curator for Harvard Art Museums and Saint Louis Art Museum, with artworks from The Museum of Modern Art. Opening reception is March 6, 6-9 p.m., 3617 Washington. The exhibition continues through August 9. www.pulitzerarts.org
Contemporary Art Museum, right next to The Pulitzer, also opens its new exhibitions on March 6, with live music by Big Esco, 6:30-9 p.m. Included are Andrea Carlson: Endless Sunshine;
And I Saw New Heavens & a New Earth: The Partnership, Art, & Activism of Claude Cahun & Marcel Moore; Ayana Evans: Teaser; Janie Stamm: Mermaid’s Purse; Teen Studio Art Exhibition 2026. www.camstl.org
March 6-April 27, Third Degree Glass presents Rivers, an exhibition of glass sculptures by Nashville artist Blaine Steiner. On March 20, the Third Annual Steinfest returns with live music, food, demos and fun, 6-10 p.m. Choose from dozens of unique, artist-made glass steins — buy one to get some of your drinks taken care of for the evening! All at 5200 Delmar. www.thirddegreeglass.com
Webster Arts hosts an intimate evening of conversation and song with the versatile Walter Parks, in the gallery, 2 Summit Avenue on March 13. Tickets include appetizers, drinks and performance. Throughout March, see Small Works XXII, a juried exhibition of art no larger than 11×14” at Webster Groves Public Library. Vote for the People’s Choice, then attend the closing reception on March 31, 6 p.m. to see who won! www.webster-arts.org
On March 20, visit the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum, on Washington U’s campus, for Kemper Unplugged: Chamber, Court & Convent: Songs & Sonatas by 17th-century Italian Women Composers. The noon performance is free, but reserve tickets online. Arrive early or stay later to view the gallery exhibitions, too! www.kemperart.org
In its 30th anniversary celebration-year, Jazz St. Louis serves up a month-ful of great music, starting with Dr. Erika Johnson (March 4-5), Dawn Weber Weekend (March 6-7), Bria Skonberg (March 11-15), followed by Claire Maue Collective (March 19), Anita Jackson (March 20-21) and Sharil Cassity’s Alliance (March 25-29). All at 3536 Washington. www.jazzstl.org
MOMIX reimagines the tale of Alice, based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, on March 7 at the Touhill. One breathtaking 7:30 p.m. performance only, so don’t miss it! www.dancestl.org
Said Dawn Karlovsky, “a moving landscape inspired by concepts of time” takes The Grandel stage when Karlovsky & Company Dance presents Shifting Time, March 20-21, at 3610 Grandel Square. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the evening of contemporary dance-theater explores “thoughts, perceptions, and experiences of human and environmental time.” www.karlovskydance.org
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra shines its spotlight on music by John Williams (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Star Wars, etc.) at its Playlist Happy Hour, March 19, 6:30 p.m. Come unwind after a long day as Stephane Deneve conducts this relaxed concert. www.slso.org
Cathedral Concerts hosts Vox Una, a consortium of area high school choirs, March 8 at 2:30 p.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, 4431 Lindell. It’s followed on March 27 by a 7:30 p.m. performance of (direct from Rome) The Three Italian Tenors — it will be bellisimo!! www.cathedralconcerts.org
The Bach Society fills Salem United Methodist Church, 1200 S. Lindbergh, with baroque chamber music, March 28, 3 p.m. in The Art of the Concerto. www.bachsociety.org
2026 Confluence New Play Festival, presented by St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, March 19-21, highlights three new plays from Missouri and Illinois writers. Zachariah Ezer (St. Louis) unearths strange, unsettling forces in Pine Bluff, Arkansas ; Catherine Ye (Chicago) presents an intimate drama about political dissidence, exile and memory in Another Country ; Pamela Morgan (Central, IL) shares her mockumentary about the friendship of four women in Reining Women. Tickets are just $10/show or $25/weekend at Rehearsal Studio, 3333 Washington Avenue, include complimentary food, drink and discussion following each reading. www.stlshakes.org
St. Louis Shakespeare Festival presents Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, at the Kranzberg Arts Center Black Box Theater in Grand Center, March 26-April 11. This absurd comedy is considered playwright Tom Stoppard’s greatest masterpiece. www.stlshakes.org
Kudos to Circus Harmony’s founder/artistic director Jessica Henthoff for international recognition in Monaco as a World Circus Federation Ambassador for promoting and preserving circus arts!