May 2009
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What's new in the galleries
Leslie Baldwin, “Illusions of an Artist.”
From this week’s Arkansas Times’ art calendar:
STEPHANO’S FINE ART GALLERY, 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.: Leslie Baldwin, new paintings; Henry Daniel Gatlin, sculpture; also work by Stephano Sutherlin, Wen Norton, Kelly Edwards, Chris Runyan, Robbie Wellborn, Laura Holthoff, Ernest Nipper, Les Galusha, B.J. Aguilar, Sherry Young, Rachel...
Blockage at the Artery
Efforts in Eureka Springs to dismantle the Artery, the public art project that lines the parking lot and which offends the sensibilities of a certain segment of that segmented town, is the subject of this week’s Art Notes in the Arkansas Times. (The above painting by Chris Rose, “Does This Halo Make My Face Look Fat,” was one among three of the project’s panels that got...
Jackson's Cummins shots at NYTimes
Bruce Jackson’s wide-format photographs of Cummins Prison Farm get notice today on the Lens digital art blog of the New York Times, but you can see them in person at CALS’ Arkansas Studies Institute on Clinton Avenue.
Jackson took the shots with a Widelux camera in 1975 as a fellow from Harvard; he’d traveled to Arkansas to see what Time magazine described as “hell”...
what's coming up
Art events and new shows (including above work by Arthur Dove exhibit at AAC) from this week’s arts calendar in the Arkansas Times:
ARGENTA 3RD FRIDAY ARTWALK: 5-8 p.m. at venues on and off Main Street in downtown North Little Rock.
ARGENTA ART CO., 7th and Main Sts.: Recent work by Melverue Abraham, open 5-8 p.m. May 22, 3nd Friday Argenta Artwalk. 537-0928.
ARGENTA STUDIOS, 401 Maple...
Collecting art
Garbo Hearne of Hearne Fine Art will give a talk on building an art collection at noon Tuesday, May 12, at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Hearne specializes in African American art, and will open a new gallery in space she’s building at Chester Street and Wright Avenue.
Though her gallery isn’t yet up, Hearne can be contacted about work at 372-6822. Her latest gallery e-mail...
A gift to Crystal Bridges
Thanks to Zeek Taylor for passing along the news that the students of the Clear Springs School in Eureka will give this bench, designed and built by teacher Douglas Stowe (the 2009 Arkansas Living Treasure winner) with assistance from the students, to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. This is the first Arkansas art we know will be featured at the museum. The bench was made...
