Cult leader whose name is engraved on Little Rock public art dies

Arkansas Times/April 4, 2025

By Milo Strain

Every few months we at the Arkansas Times like to check in on our favorite piece of local art: a statue in Little Rock’s Riverfront Park that prominently features a quote attributed to a former cult leader, whose name the city promised would be removed eight months ago.

(Last time we posted about the statue, it was to report that the city official who said the statue would be changed was no longer working for the city of Little Rock.)

While rounding up the latest news on the gaudy Inspiration Plaza we learned a fact that brings us no pleasure to report: Andrew Cohen, the disgraced cult leader and spiritual grifter whose name appears on Inspiration Plaza, died of a massive heart attack on March 25 at the age of 69.

But perhaps his name will live on forever in Little Rock’s statue park?

This has been another semi-regular cult-statue update. As far as we know, the plan is still to replace Cohen’s name with anonymous, though we’ve received a different answer from the city every time we ask.

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