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
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.- There is every reason this year to have a world view, says Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Arts Executive Director, as South Florida boldly ushers in the new year with the national premiere of Glasstress 2021 Boca Raton. Three years in the making, with 2020 being such a challenging year to coordinate an international exhibition of this size and scope, the effort serves as an important reassurance that art is an essential and enduring part of humanity. This is also a tribute to the resilience of Venices surviving the floods and continuing to make art through the pandemic. Most of these works in glass have never been seen elsewhere, and were handpicked by Kathleen Goncharov, the Museums Senior Curator who traveled to Italy in 2019. The new exhibition runs Jan. 27 through Sept. 5, 2021 and the Museum will feature online initiatives for virtual viewing. Watch the new video . More
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