With a new year stretching out before us, the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts has unveiled its upcoming exhibition lineup to fill every exciting moment of 2026. From lifestyle photography to German Expressionism, the diverse docket covers a broad range of media, topics and communities.
Here’s what you’ll find in the AMFA galleries this year.
Credit: Ron Kleeman | Courtesy of AMFA
“A Month of Sundays: Art and the Persistence of Time”
Feb. 19 – Sept. 6 | Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery
Organized by the Mid-South Cohort
The works of art in this exhibition demonstrate and expand upon the way we mark and experience time in our lives and in the environment.
Credit: Will Barnet | Courtesy of AMFA
“Will Barnet: Seasons of Life”
May 2 – Oct. 11 | Berta and John Baird Gallery
Barnet developed abstraction in the postwar New York art scene and returned to a new type of realism in the 1960s.
Credit: Mat Collishaw | Courtesy of AMFA
“Aftermaths: Mat Collishaw”
June 6 – Nov. 15 | Fine Arts Club New Media Gallery
Collishaw’s grotesque sea creatures illustrate the price of progress and humanity’s impact on the planet.
Credit: Stoney Lamar | Courtesy of AMFA
“Material Nature: The Robyn and John Horn Collection”
Aug. 22 – April 25 | Robyn and John Horn Gallery
New acquisitions range from works by the pioneers of the Studio Craft Movement to current voices in craft.
Credit: Otto Lange | Courtesy of AMFA
“The Age of Anxiety: German Expressionism in Art and Film”
Oct. 9 – Jan. 10 | Harriet and Warren Stephens Family Gallery
Organized in cooperation with the Institute for Cultural Exchange and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau Foundation.
Germany was in political and economic turmoil following World War I. Out of the chaos, an art movement emerged with jagged lines, shadowy settings and unsettling beauty.
Credit: Mikhail O. Dlugach | Courtesy of AMFA
“Soviet Cinema: Mikhail Dlugach and 1920s Poster Design”
Oct. 24 – March 14 | Berta and John Baird Gallery
Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Soviet film poster design engaged the young art of film.
(Exhibit descriptions provided by AMFA.)
Also currently on display are “Architects of Being: Louise Nevelson and Esphyr Slobodkina” through Jan. 11, “Uncommon Threads in Contemporary Art” through April 29, “Lori Larusso: A Paradox of Plenty” through May 3, “On Breathing: Eija-Liisa Ahtila” through May 24, “Nathalie Miebach: Under A Restless Sky” through April 4, 2027, and “Anne Lindberg: passage” through July 4, 2027.
Admission to the AMFA is always free, while ancillary events and activities surrounding each exhibit may be ticketed separately. Museum hours are 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Wednesday – Friday and noon – 5 p.m. Sunday.
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Credit: Jason Masters | Installation by Nathalie Miebach