Museums need to supply “social space,” says famed architect Jeanne Gang. If they are to survive, they need to be places where people want to be. And that is what her design seeks to do for the expanded, renovated Arkansas Arts Center, a $98.8 million project: provide a “cultural living room.” read more >
It’s up to the public to demonstrate its continued support for the Arkansas Arts Center by helping pay for an expanded and improved Arts Center. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center will temporarily move to 2510 Cantrell Road in the Riverdale Shopping Center for two and a half years, during its upcoming renovation and expansion project. read more >
The Cock of the Walk property in North Little Rock will get new life as an event center, says veteran restaurateur Jim Keet. read more >
As a result of changes to the federal tax code, donations to charities are expected to fall by $13.1 billion annually in the United States, according to a May 2017 study by the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center Board of Trustees announced Friday that Todd Herman has resigned as the center's executive director, effective Aug. 10. read more >
Todd Herman, director of the Arkansas Arts Center, describes the museum’s renovation, and reveals how art changed the course of his life. read more >
Architects for the planned Arkansas Arts Center renovation and expansion unveil their design. read more >
You'll find education, the arts and defenders of the nation feel right at home in Little Rock. read more >
Renovation work is underway on the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, an Arts Center neighbor in MacArthur Park. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock launched its first beacon program last month, offering a new way for visitors to engage with its exhibition of American artist John Marin’s drawings and watercolors. read more >
Townsend Wolfe, the retired longtime director of the Arkansas Arts Center and a transformative figure on the arts in Arkansas, died Saturday at his home in Little Rock. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock selects Studio Gang of Chicago and New York as the design architect for a $46 million museum expansion and renovation. read more >
Property owners in downtown Little Rock’s Metrocentre Improvement District No. 1 are finally getting a break from decades of shouldering $12.5 million of debt. read more >
Warren Stephens has done more than just safeguard the fortunes of a company birthed during the Depression and founded on entrepreneurial moxie. The second-generation CEO and stakeholder took it to another level and solidified his status as a billionaire along the way. read more >
Voters in Little Rock have easily approved a plan that authorizes a bond issue of up to $37.5 million to pay for improvements at the Arkansas Arts Center. read more >
Little Rock city leaders have approved a 2-cent increase on hotel taxes and plan to ask voters to dedicate that money for improvements at the Arkansas Arts Center. read more >
Peter MacKeith, dean of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, will speak at the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock on Feb. 10. read more >
The Arkansas Arts Center has received a gift of a large collection of artworks by John Marin, an important American modernist artist best known for watercolors. The Arts Center said it is planning an exhibition, tentatively scheduled for 2016, of Marin's work. read more >
The architecture firms of Wittenberg Delony & Davidson and Witsell Evans & Rasco have been present for the design and restoration of scores of Little Rock landmarks. Two retired principals of those firms, Gordon Wittenberg and Charlie Witsell, have completed a book. “Architects of Little Rock, 1833-1950,” profiling many of those landmarks and the stories behind them. read more >
