Art Notes

Up at the the Windgate Center of Art and Design at UA Little Rock from Feb. 22-March 19 is "Sompasauna," an exhibit from UA Little Rock alum and adjunct photography professor Dylan Yarbrough.

The Arkansas Arts Center has a new name: the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Leaders gathered at a press conference today to announce the new name and provide an update on its facility, which is being renovated and expanded. 

Hours are 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday.

British artist Frea Buckler, whose hard-edge, saturated-color geometric works have been exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and seen in galleries in New York and Denver, brings “Loop Sequence” to The New Gallery at 1619 Scott St. starting Nov. 6.

Women artists, get yourself on the registry with Arkansas Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (ACNMWA).

Walton-backed venue opens (momentarily) in Bentonville.

"I always felt the way we display the information — the viewer in front of it — everybody is filling gaps. In the end, they [the curators] can tell you whatever they want. This is also the question of colonialism: In these narratives, the 'winner' is the one talking. It’s not just missing information; it’s about how we write history. Who are the 'savages'?" 

On "Water Memory" and more.

Brewer family at Butler, Bryant at HAM.

Because Peters.

2nd Friday features Peters, Holl Collection, LGBTQ work; Delta Exhibition opens.

Women's work in wire, metalpoint, fabric, glass, cut paper at Hearne.

Two-headed calf brings home bacon.

And a painting left on the wall.

Representational fantasy at UALR.

It's likely that the photographs now on exhibit in the Arkansas Studies Institute's Concordia Hall are unlike any that most folks have seen.

At the Arkansas Arts Center.

A full arts schedule starts Friday.

Art of the new world at the Arts Center.

Smoldering charcoals.