AETN will debut ‘AETN Arts Fridays' on Friday nights beginning Oct. 14 to bring world class arts and culture programming to your living room –with local Arkansas authors and bands via locally produced arts and culture series "AETN Presents" at 6:30 p.m. and the unprecedented "PBS Arts Fall Festival" at 9 p.m. PBS is America's largest stage – and AETN has it for you every Friday!

Arts Fridays – Bluegrass Music and a World Premier Opera

Tune in to AETN Arts Fridays this Friday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. for "AETN Presents: On the Front Row With 3 Penny Acre" and 9 p.m. for "Great Performances at the Met: ‘The Enchanted Island.’"  With unique bluegrass music from the four-member Ozark band to the Metropolitan Opera’s world premier of "The Enchanted Island," you’re sure to enjoy an evening of fabulous music. Read More

Be Sure to Watch! "Art 21: Balance"

The artists in this episode, Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold and Sarah Sze, create ordered and precise works that explore the gap between art and existence, challenge the distinction between seeing and knowing and demonstrate that the pursuit of harmony can be a radical proposition. Read More

Art in the Twenty-First Century: History

Fuel your love of art and inspire the artist in you by tuning into AETN Arts Fridays this Friday, April 27 at 9:00 p.m. for the third episode of Art21’s sixth season of “Art in the Twenty First Century.” Read More

Arts Fridays with Billy Collins, Art21, and Ha Ha Tonka

AETN Arts Fridays comes to you this week with “AETN Presents:  On the Same Page” with Billy Collins as part of Poetry Month, Art in the Twenty-First Century (Art21) with “Boundaries” and Sun Studio Sessions “Ha Ha Tonka” – a big of literature, art and culture and music to end your Friday night. Tune in at 6:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. to start off your weekend a little more well-rounded.  Read More

Art21: "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season Six Premiere

Celebrating its 10th anniversary as the leading contemporary art archive of 100 internationally recognized artists, Art21 premieres the sixth season of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" on Friday, April 13 on AETN at 6:30 p.m. Read More

Arts Fridays - poetry, Renee Fleming, and Nicole Atkins

Tune into AETN Arts Fridays this Friday, April 6 at 6:30 p.m. for “AETN Presents:  On the Same Page” with Jo McDougall, at 9:00 p.m. for “Live from Lincoln Center Renee Fleming,” and at 10:30 p.m. for “Sun Studio Sessions ‘Nicole Atkins.’  Kick your weekend off with the first of our month-long talks with poets to celebrate National Poetry Month.  Read More

“AETN Presents” Celebrates National Poetry Month

“AETN Presents: On the Same Page” celebrates National Poetry Month.  Join the nation and AETN in honoring poetry and poets by tuning into AETN’s “On the Same Page,” featuring poets of national recognition every Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. during the month of April.  Arkansas artists, Pulitzer winners, U.S. Poet Laureates…the best of the word world coming to you with AETN Arts Fridays.  Read More

AETN Arts Fridays with Jack Williams and San Fran Symphony

End your week with us and AETN Arts Fridays with “AETN Presents:  On the Front Row” with Jack Williams at 6:30 p.m. and “San Francisco Symphony at 100” at 9 p.m. Read More

Arts Fridays brings you Bonnie Montgomery and Women Who Rock

AETN Arts Fridays brings you “AETN Presents:  On the Front Row” with Bonnie Montgomery and Montgomery Trucking at 6:30 p.m. and “PBS Arts from Cleveland:  Women Who Rock” at 9 p.m.  It’s a night of rockin’ women from Bonnie’s hillbilly funk and opera after, to Janis Joplin to Lady Gaga.  Cyndi Lauper hosts.  Aside from amazing lady lyrics, I need a glimpse of the current color in Cyndi’s hair! Read More

Arts Fridays-Celebrating Arkansas IV and Peter, Paul & Mary

AETN Arts Fridays March 16 starts at 6:30 p.m. with “Celebrating Arkansas IV” and Peter, Paul & Mary - 25th Anniversary Concert at 8:30 p.m.  “Celebrating Arkansas IV” features the bargains on 64…130 miles of yard sales, flea markets, and antiques along the road from Fort Smith to Conway.  Then, Peter, Paul and Mary celebrate the 50th anniversary of the formation of the trio in Greenwich Village. Read More

AETN Arts Fridays with some Arkansas, Italian and Celtic

AETN Arts Fridays brings you three different sounds from all over this great planet….starting in Arkansas March 9 at 6:30 p.m., catch the brilliant Ted Ludwig Trio from Arkansas, Il Volo Takes Flight, rounding off with Celtic Thunder Voyage.  You can’t say ‘you never take me anywhere’ with AETN and PBS at the helm – we’ll take you from the Natural State to Italy to the Celtic beyond all in one night. Read More

Arts Fridays with 3 Penny Acre, Cab Calloway, and Broadway

AETN Arts Fridays starting at 6:30 p.m. brings us three top notch and completely different sets of sounds and performance – each exquisite and sure to please anyone who has ever had a song in their heart.  3 Penny Acre from Fayetteville treats us to folk, Cab Calloway amazes with modern dance in a not so modern age and In Performance at the White House entertains with “A Broadway Celebration”. Read More

AETN Arts Fridays with Go Fast! and “Memphis on Broadway”

Join AETN Arts Fridays with “AETN Presents:  On the Front Row with Go Fast” Feb. 24 at 6:30 p.m. and “Great Performances: Memphis on Broadway” at 9 p.m. Go Fast blends Americana-infused proto-rock, hot-rod culture, and monster movies. Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best New Musical, “Memphis” turns to the 1950s to tell the story of a white DJ whose love of music transcends race lines. Read More

AETN Arts Fridays brings The Boondogs and American Songbook

AETN Arts Fridays brings you Little Rock’s The Boondogs at 6:30 and American Songbook’s “Saloon Singer” at 9 p.m.  The Boondogs’ Roots Pop sound comes from Little Rock-based band of Indy Grotto, Jason Weinheimer, Chris Michaels, Jess Aycock, Isaac Alexander and Dylan Turner.  Catch “Saloon Singer” as it examines the allure of musical nightlife and its pioneers including Rose Marie, Maya Angelou.  Read More

AETN Arts Fridays with Wildwood and Steve Davison, 6:30 p.m.

Join us Friday, February 10 at 6:30 p.m. for “AETN Presents:  On the Front Row” with Wildwood and Steve Davison as part of AETN Arts Fridays.   Stay tuned for "Michael Feinstein's American Songbook Lost and Found" at 9 p.m. Wildwood is a high-energy band from Fayetteville, and individual winner Davison, who composes original music on 6 and 12-string guitars. Read More

AETN Arts Fridays and American Songbook Feb. 3 at 9 p.m.

Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook returns for a second season with three new episodes that take viewers on a musical journey across America and through time.  This season the acclaimed musician and Grammy®-nominated vocalist goes deeper in his ongoing quest to celebrate and preserve classic 20th century popular song.  Feb. 3 gives us “Time Machines” about technology preserving the past. Read More