NW Arkansas “Exquisite Creatures” Challenge Art Exquisite Creatures Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, Arkansas Through July 29, 2024 Artist and naturalist Christopher Marley pursued rare animals, reptiles and insects to the ends of the Mickey Mercier 26 Mar 2024 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas El Dorado Film Fest Shows Triumphs, Struggles Of Indie Movie Makers El Dorado Film Festival South Arkansas Arts Center El Dorado, Arkansas Feb. 8 – 11, 2024 Independent filmmakers converged on the El Dorado Film Festival in Arkansas to show their work Mickey Mercier 22 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas The Transfiguration of Sawyer Hill Sawyer Hill Meteor Guitar Gallery Bentonville, Ark. Dec. 8, 2023 Alt-rock singer Sawyer Hill has a new band, new songs and 70,000 followers on TikTok. Headlining a near-capacity concert Mickey Mercier 15 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas The Art of Natural Intelligence – And Why AI Wants Your Job N.I. (Natural Intelligence) by Amos Cochran The Momentary Bentonville Closed Nov. 12 Composer and video artist Amos Cochran’s multimedia installation at the Momentary in Bentonville rebels against the Mickey Mercier 20 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas “Latinas en Bici” Roll on Day of the Dead Día de Muertos Bike Ride Latinas en Bici Rogers, Arkansas Nov. 4, 2023 Tanya Kaiser of Farmington, Arkansas, arrived in style at the finish line of a Día de Muertos Mickey Mercier 6 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Post-Punk Painter Of Myth And Horror Conquers All The Art of Kim Seltzer: Love Conquers All Art Collective Gallery Rogers, Arkansas Through Nov. 30 Startling portrayals of mythological and historical figures inhabit the otherworldly paintings of Kim Seltzer Mickey Mercier 31 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Annie Leibovitz Embraces The iPhone Cam Annie Leibovitz At Work Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville Through Jan. 29, 2024 Walking through the photography exhibit Annie Leibovitz At Work at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Mickey Mercier 19 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas The Fern Bar, Reimagined Botanical at 8th and A 713 SW A St. Bentonville, Ark. Fern bars — those 1980s-era drinking establishments decorated with potted plants, green carpeting, fake Tiffany lamps, and plenty of brass Mickey Mercier 3 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Rat Bikes Rumble An annual motorcyclists' gathering highlights the power of a lesser-known two-wheeled art form. Hill City Rumble Prairie Street Live Fayetteville Sept. 16 Thirty miles south of where a museum Mickey Mercier 18 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Plane Truth Uncovered About That “$200 Burger” Amateur pilots love to complain about the “hundred-dollar hamburger.” It’s an in-joke, a wry lament about the high cost of learning to fly small aircraft – the expense of plane Mickey Mercier 13 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Paging Lou Reed, In The City That Birthed Walmart At the Meteor Guitar Gallery, an up-and-coming music venue in Northwest Arkansas, I was hoping to see a Lou Reed tribute act. The act, a local band audaciously named Blew Mickey Mercier 4 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
NW Arkansas Art Breathes Deep At Momentary Walking into artist Firelei Báez’s To breathe full and free: a re-visioning, a correction (19°36’16.9“N72°13’07.0“W, 42° 21’48.762″ N 71° Serena Puang 1 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Citified Sushi Strut Looks Fishy A Facebook post in a local food group from July 30 asked for “A restaurant that everyone seems to love but you think is actually not that good.” Hot takes Serena Puang 10 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas In Cheese Plant-Turned Gallery Space, Bubblegum Pink Beckons The outside of the Momentary (a contemporary art space/music venue/coffee shop/bar in Bentonville, Akansas) looks like a shoebox. The building itself is a repurposed cheese plant, and Serena Puang 1 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
NW Arkansas Rebecca Loves Marty: 8 Years Later, It Shoulda Been You Works Past Stereotypes Rogers, Ark. – Arkansas’ Public Theatre’s production of It Shoulda Been You — featuring an interfaith wedding gone awry, bickering mothers, and an all-knowing, borderline-magical wedding planner — is a joyful farewell Serena Puang 24 Jul 2023 · 3 min read