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Sculpture Vulture: MIRAGE

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Today’s Sculpture Vulture is Ted Schaal’s MIRAGE located in the Vogel-Scwartz Sculpture Garden. It was purchased in 2009 for the garden.

According to Schaal, “Mirage Monument was inspired by seeing a desert mirage while driving in the west. A mountain appeared to be hovering in the sky and I wanted to capture that instant of wonder about that etherial phenomenon. The sense of illusion and curiosity as to how it is happening is central to the piece. The horizontal slit in the stainless orb is the horizon line and the ridges in the bronze make stair step profiles like heat off the road.”

Movies in the Park: TWILIGHT ECLIPSE

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For a movie series that starts at twilight, it is appropriate that Movies in the Park continues tonight in Riverfront Park with the 2010 hit film Twilight: Eclipse. The third in the vampire/werwolf saga, it is directed by David Slade.  The film stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Anna Kendrick, Peter Facinelli, Kellan Lutz, and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Movies in the Park is a free outdoor movie series in Little Rock’s River Market. The mission of Movies in the Park is help foster a sense of community and enjoyment in downtown Little Rock and throughout Central Arkansas by bringing people together to enjoy a movie in a unique setting along the scenic banks of the Arkansas River.

Movies start at dark.You’re welcome to bring picnics but please no glass containers and pick up afterwards. If you choose not to bring your own picnic we do have concessions available for sale. Bring your bug spray, picnic and family and have a good time!

The park opens at 6:30 pm.

The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau Technical Services department provides all the equipment for the movies.

Sculpture Vulture: CONVERSATION WITH MYSELF

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Today’s trip to the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden features Lorri Acott-Fowler’s Conversation with Myself. 

This bronze sculpture depicts a taller figure bent over at the waist and looking down at a smaller figure who is looking up at the taller figure. The figures are gender neutral.  The sculpture was featured in the 2008 Sculpture at the River Market show.

The artist has said that there are times she feels like the larger figure and other times she feels more like the smaller one.

JAWS at Movies in the Park

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The ultimate Summer movie — beach, action, special effects, and a hearkening back to simpler times. The 1975 classic JAWS will be featured at Movies in the Park tonight.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film features Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gray and Murray Hamilton as well as Bruce the Shark. It also features the iconic score by John Williams. Nominated for four Academy Awards, it won three: Score, Sound and Film Editing. The only Oscar it lost was Best Picture.

Movies in the Park is a free outdoor movie series in Little Rock’s River Market. The mission of Movies in the Park is help foster a sense of community and enjoyment in downtown Little Rock and throughout Central Arkansas by bringing people together to enjoy a movie in a unique setting along the scenic banks of the Arkansas River.

Movies start at dark.You’re welcome to bring picnics but please no glass containers and pick up afterwards. If you choose not to bring your own picnic we do have concessions available for sale. Bring your bug spray, picnic and family and have a good time!

The park opens at 6:30 pm.

The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau Technical Services department provides all the equipment for the movies.

Sculpture Vulture: Michael Warrick’s CORAL

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Today’s Sculpture Vulture feature is Michael Warrick’s Coral which was installed in the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden in 2010. Using bronze, Warrick highlights the many facets of that material in an abstract piece. It features roughness, smoothness, broad surfaces and delicate tendrils.

Warrick is a longtime faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and has sculptures placed as far away as China in addition to appearing in many public and private collections in Arkansas and throughout the United States.

Pops on the River

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Pops on the River, presented by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is the state’s largest Fourth of July celebration and takes place this year on Wednesday July 4th in downtown Little Rock.

Bale Chevrolet, Honda and Kia of Little Rock sponsor the event.

Pops on the River, in it’s 29th year, is FREE to the public and will begin at noon outside the main gates of the Riverfest Amphitheater in the River Market Pavilions with a Kid’s Pavilion and Car Pavilion.

The event will also have a marketplace with shopping, food trucks, a classic car show and other activities below the River Market Pavilions.

Pops on the River activities inside the Riverfest Amphitheater gates will begin at 5:30. The Oh Say! Can You Sing? Top 5 finalists will perform in addition to the Happy Tymes Jazz Band. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will close out the night with a beautiful performance. Fireworks will be finale at 9:30 p.m.

Please remember:
-No Coolers
-No Pets
-No Outside Food or Drink
-No Fireworks
-No Smoking

Movies in the Park: MONEYBALL

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Movies in the Park continues tonight in Riverfront Park with the 2011 hit film and Academy Award multiple nominee Moneyball. Directed by Bennett Miller, this film stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Platt, Reed Diamond and Tammy Blanchard.

Movies in the Park is a free outdoor movie series in Little Rock’s River Market. The mission of Movies in the Park is help foster a sense of community and enjoyment in downtown Little Rock and throughout Central Arkansas by bringing people together to enjoy a movie in a unique setting along the scenic banks of the Arkansas River.

Movies start at dark.You’re welcome to bring picnics but please no glass containers and pick up afterwards. If you choose not to bring your own picnic we do have concessions available for sale. Bring your bug spray, picnic and family and have a good time!

The park opens at 6:30 pm.

The Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau Technical Services department provides all the equipment for the movies.