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The new Arkansas Printmakers Collective is exhibiting its first exhibition at Hendrix College, Conway.

Charcoal and mixed media drawings by Samuel Gray at Boswell-Mourot Fine Art. Read more about the show at http://posting.arktimes.com/arkansas/Blogs/Admin/Post?mode=entry&blogid=939810

Butler Center Galleries, open 5-8 p.m. tonight for 2nd Friday Art Night.

Thomas Hart Benton, by Harry Sternberg, also at CBMAA

Newly revealed at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Work in the Vogel Schwartz sculpture garden in Riverfront Park.

At Hearne Fine Art through tomorrow.

Work in the "Garden as Muse" exhibit at the Walton Arts Center, which will go down Saturday. There's a closing reception tonight (June 2) from 5-8 p.m. at the gallery, in conjunction with First Friday.

This blog is moving!

The Arkansas Times is updating its website this week, and I'll have a blog on the site: Eye Candy. You'll find it at www.arktimes.com.

Now on exhibit at the Arkansas Arts Center: "The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf," an exhibit of tiny anthropomorophic brooches staged to express messages of social, moral and cultural issues that concern jeweler and artist Metcalf. Here's the artist's website; this show looks like it will be a winner. The show runs through Aug. 22.

Here's "Supine Woman" -- couldn't alter the previous post because of Tumblr glitch. Now is as good a time as ever to note that starting June 3, this column will be called "Eye Candy" (to match Lindsey Millar's "Rock Candy" blog) and will be found on the Arkansas Times website, www.arktimes.com, rather than on tumblr.

It's really great fun having the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art collection revealed in tasty bites while we wait (and wait) for the museum to open. Today's serving is of two modern pieces, the mystical landscape "Enassamishhinjijweian" (103 by 112 inches) by Minnesota artist Tom Uttech and the challenging figurative piece "Supine Woman" by Wayne Thiebaud. The museum news release is here.

Sotheby's has a little information on 36-by-72 inch "Supine Woman" (1963): The painting was sold at auction in 2009 for a stunning $1.8 million. More about the sale and an artist biography here.

Recent acquisition revelations show Alice Walton, who once said the museum would focus on works created before 1950, is now eager to show contemporary works, many of them large-scale. I once envisioned Crystal Bridges to be a showcase of early American portraiture and landscapes with some early 20th century modernism; now it looks like Walton will have a little bit of everything, save perhaps performance pieces involving body fluids and other like head-turners. Perhaps Walton's new purchases -- like "Enassamishhinjijweian" -- can be chalked up to influence by new director Don Bacigalupi.

I'll post "Supine Woman" when Crystal Bridges fixes press link.

Matt McLeod's work ("Koi") and a pottery demonstration by Laura Phillips and mother Helen Phillips, both fine art ceramicists with different takes on the world, are two of the big events of Third Friday Argenta Artwalk tonight. McLeod's paintings are at Greg Thompson Fine Art; the Phillipses are in front of the Argenta branch of the Laman Library. Event runs 5-8 p.m. Read more about what's happening in downtown NLR tonight and John McDermott's photography show at Boswell-Mourot here.

STOLEN -- Bloomberg reports that Picasso's "Pigeon with Peas" (above) and four other paintings were stolen earlier this morning from the Musee d'Art Moderne in Paris. The thief sawed off a padlock and entered the museum by a window, making off with the Picasso, Matisse's "Pastorale," Modigliani's "Woman with a Fan," Braque's "The Olive Tree Near l'Estaque" and Leger's "Still Life with Candlesticks."

Everyone can see "Everyone Needs a Fife" tonight at Stephano's Fine Art's reception for its "North/South Show" from 5:30 to 9 p.m. ("Happy Hour in the Heights"). Along with Stephano's portrait of Barney will be work by Matt Gore and Jim Jolly (representing the Southern contingent) and Yanks Mary Anne Erickson, Alexis Silk and G. Peebles. Stephano's is at 5501 Kavanaugh Blvd.

Galleries in Hot Springs will be open late for the Spa City's monthly Gallery Walk, and Justus Fine Art at 827 Central Ave. gets arkansasartnotes' nod for top show with an exhibit of sculpture and drawings by Robyn Horn. Horn has work in the National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery, in Washington, D.C.; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston ... and so on. The woodturner -- also a winner of the Department of Arkansas Heritage's Living Treasure Award -- lives and works outside Little Rock. There will be lots more to see on Central Avenue as well, including (but not limited to) watercolors by Gary Weeter at Gallery 726 (726 Central), paintings by Sandy Hubler at Gallery Central (800 Central Ave.), and work by Jean Dillon and Millie Steveken at Artists Workshop Gallery (810 Central).

Peg Smith was one of a kind: She love this state, its history and its people and she did something about it, by working to preserve the nature of the Quapaw Quarter and by serving more than a half-century on the board of the Arkansas Territorial Restoration, which became the Historic Arkansas Museum. She started HAM's focus on Arkansas art, creating its first gallery for native artists. Now, HAM is honoring its late supporter with the installation of public art: "pARTy for Peg," a square dance installation in aluminum by Alice Guffey Miller. Read more here about the dedication of the sculpture and more about Peg Smith.

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