The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts on Wednesday announced that the museum will now have its grand opening in the spring of 2023. It s the second postponement on the museum’s opening date, which had originally been set for May 2022.
MacArthur Park reboot: A Q&A with Victoria Ramirez of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
March 3, 202111:55 am ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER, TRANSFORMED: Like its new name, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts’ new building nods to its 1930s origins. Studio Gang/courtesy of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
The Arkansas Arts Center has a new name to go with its $142 million new building in MacArthur Park. Now known as the
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the newly glowed-up art museum is slated to open in 2022, housing under one roof a restaurant, an art school, gallery space, a museum store and performing arts spaces for its acclaimed children’s theater and other groups. Architecture firm Studio Gang, founded by MacArthur genius grant award winner Jeanne Gang, designed the new building. The concept adds a sweeping glass-paneled “cultural living room” and simultaneously nods to the building’s history by uncovering and spotlighting a