Monica Hooper Monica Hooper is an award-winning features writer specializing in entertainment news for Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley. Since 2022, she has interviewed a diverse range of luminaries, including Fran Lebowitz, Herb Alpert, Carlos Santana, Ricky Skaggs, John Waters and Kristin Chenoweth. While she enjoys spotlighting these renowned figures, Monica’s true passion lies
The Ulmer Quartet kicked off the Summer Showcase Fundraiser for the New Ulm Fine Arts Boosters. The Ulmer Quartet planed hour long set that included three songs with Everett “Elvis” Brown NEW ULM – The second Summer Showcase Fundraiser was hosted by New Ulm Fine Arts Boosters at the State Street Theater Monday June 30.
A collective of Kildare artists will be exhibiting art which explores the “many wonders and and history of Kildare” in an exhibit, called ‘Tapestry of Kildare’ organised by PopUpArt Newbridge. The exhibition will take place at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge, launching on Friday 11 July at 6pm. The PopUpArt Newbridge initiative is the
“Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art,” which opened at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco on March 22, is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and curated by Timothy Anglin Burgard. Its premise, spelled out in the title, is straight forward enough and firmly based on the
Mustafa Zaman has stepped down from his role as the director of the Fine Arts Department at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA), marking another major leadership change at the country’s premier state-run cultural institution. Confirming the matter, Academy Secretary Mohammad Wares Hossain told several media on Thursday that he received Mustafa Zaman’s resignation letter yesterday
Art by Scott Hartley. Submitted. Fine Line Designs will present a three-day pop-up exhibition featuring nationally recognized glass artist Scott Hartley on July 8-10. Art collectors, design enthusiasts and the general public are invited to explore Hartley’s work – blown and sculpted pieces that celebrate the interplay of color, light and form while capturing a
A new gallery is opening in the heart of Glasgow. Clarendon Fine Art will launch its newest location on Royal Exchange Square on July 11, marking the brand’s first gallery in the city. The gallery will open in a restored historic building from the late 1700s, spanning two floors. Helen Swaby, owner and chief executive
SALEM — “Making History,” the immodest title of a somewhat more modest exhibition newly opened at the Peabody Essex Museum, promises much and delivers some of it. Gleaned from the considerable collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts are 86 works by American artists across eras and generations, some wildly famous and many not
(Credits: Far Out / Alamy) Wed 2 July 2025 22:00, UK The word legend is thrown around too much in the world of music, but in the instance of Iggy Pop, it’s a label we can proudly brandish and attach to him. He’s a good musician, sure, but his legacy goes a lot deeper than that.
The Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) reopened to the public on 22 April, welcoming the Little Rock community for the first time since breaking ground on a four-year renovation and expansion project in 2019. Set in Little Rock’s historic MacArthur Park, the beloved institution (renamed the Arkansas Arts Center in 1960) has been a