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New Timeline Set for Opening of Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Executive Director Victoria Ramirez said supply chain delays have contributed to the opening being pushed back.

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Inside the Fight to #SaveOurStages: Independent Venues Struggle to Survive the Pandemic Year | Arts

The entrance to ONCE, which is now closed.
Before the pandemic, ONCE in Somerville was known for its wild rock shows. One of its final concerts even saw the lead singer of a band then-called PowerSlut “jump off the stage and crowd surf into a rainbow unicorn inflatable kiddie pool,” says JJ Gonson, the venue’s owner.
Gonson loved to host events like this at her venue every week; however as a result of the pandemic, ONCE was forced to permanently close its doors. Having lost the lease for her space, Gonson doesn’t know when she’ll be able to get back to hosting bands like PowerSlut again, if ever.

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Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts On Target for May 2022 Open

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The new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts' signature roof – a flowing, folded plate concrete structure, blossoming out to the north and south – is now complete. Pictured here, along with the second floor's "cultural living room," the roofline spans the length of the new 133,000-SF building set to open in May 2022. (
Karen Segrave)
The new Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts will feature the original museum's 1937 art deco facade and an outdoor courtyard. (
Karen Segrave)
Victoria Ramirez, director of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (second from right) talks about the main gallery spaces. Near Ramirez, from left, are Harriet and Warrens Stephens and at far right is Jeanne Gang with Studio Gang, the architecture firm of record for the project. (

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By the numbers: A year in 'fiscal freefall' for Massachusetts arts and culture

By the numbers: A year in ‘fiscal freefall’ for Massachusetts arts and culture
Diti Kohli
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Jacklyn Boyland was front and center as demonstrators organized a group photo during a rally in Boston, MA on October 02, 2020.
“Some places have been absolutely decimated,” said Catherine Peterson, executive director of ArtsBoston, an audience-building and ticketing organization.
In the Before Times, the Bureau of Economic Analysis found that arts and culture contributed more than $800 billion to the US economy annually and employed 5 million people. Boston boasted more arts and cultural organizations per capita than even New York City, according to a 2016 report by the Boston Foundation.

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Massachusetts arts industry lost at least $588 million during pandemic, new reports finds

The Massachusetts Cultural Council found that, one year into the pandemic, 981 cultural nonprofits and municipal groups lost millions, and at least 30,000 jobs have been impacted.

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Arkansas Arts Center becomes Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts

Arkansas Arts Center becomes Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Daytime view from downtown Little Rock of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts new north entrance. The Cultural Living Room signals the new entrance from Crescent Drive and creates a new courtyard plaza that reveals the museums historic façade. © Studio Gang and SCAPE.
LITTLE ROCK, AR
.- Trustees and leadership of the Arkansas Arts Center today announced that this historic institution in the capital of Little Rock, currently in the midst of a $142 million transformation, will now be known as the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), reaffirming its leading role in cultural life throughout the state. Redesigned as a thoroughly new experience by the MacArthur Foundation genius award winners Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects and Kate Orff of SCAPE Landscape Architecture with an increase in space of almost 50 percent and the addition of 10 acres of new grounds, the reinvented Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts is scheduled to open in spring 2022.

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