The post-pandemic art world in Arkansas
courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
OPENING IN JULY: Crystal Bridges celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with the exhibition “Crystal Bridges at 10,” featuring more than 140 works, including Deborah Roberts’ mixed media on panel “He Looks Like Me.”
What the immediate future holds for our museum-going life is still a bit murky, thanks to the unknowns of the pandemic. But what is certain is that big things are on the post-pandemic horizon, with a spruced-up and expanded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts coming in 2022 and a 100,000-square-foot expansion at
Crystal Bridges Museum of Fine Art in 2024.
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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. (
Send The Arkansas Arts Center, undergoing a $100 million renovation and expansion, is getting a new name, too.
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