FUN
The Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, in collaboration with Plaza Frida, is celebrating the city’s Hispanic community at River Market Live! Hispanic Heritage Celebration, 5-9 p.m. Saturday at the River Market Pavilions, 400 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. The celebration will feature “the rhythms, flavors, and artistry of Little Rock’s Hispanic community,” through traditional dances representing Latin American countries; a mariachi band accompanied by dancing horses; salsa lessons; food trucks serving authentic food and drink; and artisan vendors selling handcrafted goods and “cultural keepsakes.” littlerock.com.
MUSIC
Old Crow Medicine Show performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Hall, 721 W. Ninth St., Little Rock, a make-up for an Aug. 23 show that was postponed. (501) 406-1364; littlerockhall.com.
And you have an extra chance to audition for “American Idol” — Monday Sept. 29 — via Zoom. Hopefuls can sign up to audition face-to-face in front of producers and receive real-time feedback. Visit americanidol.com/auditions for more details, including the sign-up form.
THEATER
Quinn Gasaway plays an American soldier whose journey of an American soldier (played by ) from enlistment and deployment to reintegration into society is covered in Arkansas native and Army veteran Ben Grimes’ one-man show “Death of Kings,” onstage at 7 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the Performing Arts Theatre at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. Grimes weaves Shakespearean text with modern storytelling in the museum’s first theatrical production specifically recommended for teenage audiences (12-plus). events.arkmfa.org.
And “Catch Me If You Can,” a back-end mystery involving the missing female half of a honeymooning couple and some creepy resulting machinations, is onstage through Oct. 4 at Murry’s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 12:45 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com.
ART AND EXHIBITS
“Between Cities: Altheimer, Delight, Eudora, Marked Tree,” photographs of secondary South Arkansas cities by Darrell Adams, Jessica Maxwell, Rita Henry and Rachel Worthen, is on display through Oct. 31 at Gallery 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. It’ll be up, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, through Oct. 31. (501) 664-8996; gallery26.com
“New Beginnings,” impressionist gouache and oil paintings that Andrew Deiser salvaged from the March 19 fire at the St. Joseph Center of Arkansas that destroyed his studio, plus new works created in the months thereafter, is on display through October. 10 at the Argenta Library, 420 Main St., North Little Rock. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday. (501) 687-1061; NLRlibrary.org.
“Coordinates,” landscapes, still lifes and figurative paintings by April Burris and Holly Tilley, each including the GPS coordinates to authenticate its location, on display through Oct. 15 at the Art Group Gallery, in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center, 11525 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1- 5 p.m. Sunday.(501) 690-2193; artgrouparkansas.com.
The Arkansas League of Artists’ Opportunity Show remains up through Sept. 30 at the William F. Laman Public Library, 2801 Orange St., North Little Rock, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday-Saturday. (501) 758-1720; NLRlibrary.org.
“Under A Restless Sky,” a new site-specific installation by Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, on display through April 4 in the Jackson T. Stephens Gallery of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. The three-dimensional art installation, created with paint, paper, wood, ropes and other materials that explores how various species — birds and humans — move and adapt due to environmental and climate changes, (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org.
“Edwin Brewer, A Retrospective of His Art,” landscape and still-life paintings in oils and watercolors by the Little Rock native (1927-2002), on display through Oct. 18 at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com.
On display at the Windgate Center of Art + Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock:
- “Drawing Is Magic: The Books and Illustrations of John Hendrix,” work by The New York Times’ bestselling author and illustrator, in the Brad Cushman Gallery through Oct. 3.
- “Hans Weissflog: Klein und Fein,” hand-processed wood sculptures in “highly precise, technical, and expertly engineered forms,” according to a news release, by German artist Weissflog (“Klein und Fein” is German for “small and fine”), in the North and South Galleries through Sept. 28.
- “Chris Revelle: What Remains,” color photography and mixed-media works on commercial prints (postcards and newspaper pages) by Revelle, the director of community engagement at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, up through Oct. 17 in the Focus Gallery.
- “Amanda McFarland: Weather Through Portraiture,” drawings by the recipient of the Linda Blaine Flake Endowed Art Scholarship, up through Oct. 3 in the Ann Maners and Alex Pappas Gallery.
Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
“Portraits From a Presidency,” the exhibition of more than 50 paintings, sculptures, engravings and photographic portraits of members of the Clinton family, up through Dec. 7 at the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. clintonpresidentialcenter.org/exhibits.
And “Enid Collins Handbags: Thinking Outside the Bejeweled Box,” a collection of handbags by Texas designer Enid Collins, is on display through Sept. 28 at ESSE Museum and Store, 1510 Main St., Little Rock. (501) 916-9022; essepursemuseum.com.