A Companion for Departure
Pulling from loss, the physical drop of objects and bodies, and three-channel videos, Arkansas-based artist Bethany Springer considers the slow-motion process of grieving, scientific experiments, and action as existence.
Arkansas (9)
Marie Bannerot McInerney: Trace Me Back at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
Yashi Davalos reviews the somatic suppression to time and sound found in Marie Bannerot McInerney: Trace Me Back at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.
New Forms: Black Male Portraiture Through Afro-futurism by Perrion Hurd at Hearne Fine Art Gallery, Little Rock
Bianca Littlepage reviews the delicate portrait etchings found in New Forms: Black Male Portraiture through Afro-Futurism, Perrion Hurd’s solo presentation of works at Hearne Fine Art Gallery, Little Rock.
Everloving: Dedicated Visual Art Studio’s Plans for Community Engagement After a Devastating Tornado
In our first Current theme essay, Bianca Littlepage highlights Dedicated Visual Art Studio and Gallery’s determination in rebuilding their Little Rock, Arkansas community.
Diego Rivera’s America at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
Katy Galaz considers the convergence of unifying cultural aspirations and capitalistic enterprise in the exhibition Diego Rivera’s America at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville.
Letter from Arkansas: In the Pines
Burnaway editor Jasmine Amussen looks back at the abyss and heavenly firmament of rural Southern girlhood thru the music of Jewel and Ethel Cain.
Entre/Between at Crystal Bridges Museum of Art
Visiting Crystal Bridges’s latest exhibition, Rachel Trusty reflects on Northwest Arkansas’s changing landscape and Latinx placemaking beyond borders.
Vignettes from A Divided Landscape
Tara Stickley bears witness to A Divided Landscape at the Momentary, charting the mythologies that trouble the landscape in a series of illustrative vignettes.
November 17, 2021
Burnaway’s bi-weekly news roundup celebrates the life of Memphis rapper Young Dolph.
