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Wade Hampton, The Family, oil on wood, 24 x 36"

Delta Exhibition
The Arkansas Arts Center’s 62nd Annual Delta Exhibition will be held online this year from June 19 to August 23. One of the longest running and most prestigious juried art exhibitions in the region, the show features 63 works by 348 regional artists including Thomas Faulkner, Leah Grant, David Foss, Wade Hampton and Anton Hoeger.

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Lorna Simpson, Construction (detail), collage on paper, 22 3/16 x 17 1/16"

Lorna Simpson online show
A digital exhibition at contemporary Swiss gallery Hauser & Wirth features African American artist Lorna Simpson’s collages on paper. Give Me Some Moments features collages of black-and-white photographs of men and women juxtaposed with architectural features, animals and natural elements to create scenes that are both poetic and socially charged.

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Guy Marineau, Pat Cleveland on the dance floor during Halston’s disco bash at Studio 54, photograph, 1977.

Night Magic
An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in New York showcases a variety of media that captures the culture and history of Studio 54, one of Manhattan’s most iconic nightclubs. Through a series of photographs, drawings, film, costume illustrations and more, Studio 54: Night Magic explores the history, social politics and cutting-edge aesthetics of Studio 54, as well as the artists, fashion designers, writers and musicians who inhabited it.

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Southern Light
The scenic Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina, features a series of luminous light sculptures by Bruce Munro throughout its outdoor sculpture garden and arboretum. A total of seven immersive art installations create mesmerizing, otherworldly scenes that evoke different moods dependent upon the time of day at which they’re viewed. The sculptures, which mimic various organic objects from lilies to frogs, consist of tens of thousands of components. Bruce Munro at Brookgreen: Southern Light is currently on view. —