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Laura Raborn says her "Presence," opening Friday, May 17, at Cantrell Gallery, 8208 Cantrell Road, is about "the idea of human presence.

Fans of John Salvest's conceptual work will want to make a trip to Memphis to see his show "Field Guide" at David Lusk Gallery, 97 Tillman St. 

The Center for Humanities and Arts on the UA Pulaski Tech campus will open two exhibits on Anne Frank, "Anne Frank — A Private Photo Album" and "Anne Frank: A History for Today," on May 17.

A Q&A with Ballet Arkansas's co-directors.

The Arkansas Literary Festival used to intimidate me. While I like books as much as the next Little Rocker, the vast array of affiliated events overwhelmed me. “Pub or Perish,” “Author! Author!,” “Writers in the Schools,” cooking classes, writers workshops, the book sale, family events, and — oh, yeah—five or six dozen writers from across the globe speaking on a variety of panels about a variety of different subjects.

The Arkansas Arts Center opens its 61st annual juried show of work by regional artists, the Delta Exhibition, on Friday, May 3. Artists will have to wait until 2022 for another chance to exhibit in the Delta: The Arts Center closes at the end of the year for a three-year, $65 million transformation.

Comedian Stef Bright of Comedians NWA talks misogyny in the comedy club ahead of a showcase at the White Water Tavern tonight.

Big Smith returns to the stage at George's Saturday night.

Kathy Bay's geometric abstractions and Jason McCann's painterly figurative work go on exhibit this week at Boswell Mourot Fine Art, 5815 Kavanaugh Blvd. A reception is set for 6-9 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the gallery.

To ring in the band's silver anniversary, they'll open Thursday night's concert with the very same opening number as LR Winds' debut concert on February 8, 1994: Camille Saint-Saens’ "Marche Militaire Francaise."

Hearne Fine Art, 1001 Wright Ave., will host a reception and book-signing at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Apri 24, with book illustrator Higgins Bond, a Little Rock native who has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to illustrate a U.S. Postal Service Stamp.

John Lasater of Siloam Springs says his work is a "language for my gratitude" of the blessings of life. Justus Fine Art Gallery will show what Lasater means when it highlights his work in an exhibition that opens Friday, May 3, with the Hot Springs Gallery Walk, 5-9 p.m.

We talk with Heather Massie about her one-woman play, "Hedy! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr," approaching its 100th performance.

David Arquette's project "12-Hour Shift," described as a "dark horror comedy" about a "group of nurses stealing organs and selling them on the black market" — is in production in Jonesboro.

The Downtown Little Rock Partnership has never met a downtown alley it doesn't like, as evidenced by its series of alley parties. Now, the DLRP is launching "Between the Bricks," a public art project to cover alley doors with original art reproduced in vinyl.

There are good bassists, there are great bassists, and then there is Victor Wooten.

A walk along the Oregon shore, where trash was washing in, inspired the creation of sculpture made entirely of garbage from oceans and waterways.