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HOLIDAY HOURS: Crystal Bridges will be closed December 25 (Christmas Day).
HORARIO POR DÍAS FESTIVOS: Crystal Bridges estará cerrado el 25 de diciembre (Navidad).

Posts for Art & Collection

Installing Maman
Metal spider sculpture in outdoor plaza, modern building backdrop, people nearby for scale.

Installing Maman

Art & Collection
Ever wonder how a 30-foot-tall spider sculpture was installed in the courtyard at Crystal Bridges? Very carefully.   No, seriously, we have a video of it.  Here you go:  The…
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Diederich's Dogs and Manship's Bears
Bronze sculpture of two greyhound-like dogs playing, one leaping over the other on a base.

Diederich's Dogs and Manship's Bears

Art & Collection
"I love animals first, last and always. Animals seemed to me truly plastic. They possess such supple unspoiled rhythms." --William Hunt Diederich Recently, our preparators have installed a lively new…
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Mother of Spiders: Louise Bourgeois
Person in formal attire holds octopus-shaped sculpture against plain backdrop.

Mother of Spiders: Louise Bourgeois

Art & Collection

Like her monumental sculpture that now looms over Crystal Bridges’ courtyard, Louise Bourgeois was an artist who embodied a host of seeming contradictions. A slight woman, she worked in the…

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Charles Sheeler:
Charles Sheeler with his camera

Charles Sheeler:

Art & Collection

July is the birthday month of two influential Modernists from the Crystal Bridges collection: Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) and Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 –…

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A Chat with Jamie Wyeth
Person in suit leans against pillar in colorful art gallery with wooden floors and paintings.

A Chat with Jamie Wyeth

Art & Collection Exhibitions

In honor of artist Jamie Wyeth’s birthday today, I am posting some snippets from my interview with Wyeth this winter.  Crystal Bridges will host a retrospective of Wyeth’s work from…

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Remembering Miriam Schapiro
Elderly person with gray hair smiling, floral patterned jacket, colorful artwork background.

Remembering Miriam Schapiro

Art & Collection

Artist Miriam Schapiro passed away last week at the age of 91. Schapiro was a ground-breaking feminist artist who helped bridge the gap between “high art” and craft, especially traditional…

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Happy Birthday John Baldessari
Children engaging with large ear-and-horn art installation on a wall, exploring sound.

Happy Birthday John Baldessari

Art & Collection

John Baldessari’s Beethoven’s Trumpet (with Ear) Opus #132, 2007 is currently on view in Crystal Bridges’ 1940s to Now gallery. A popular artwork with children, the sculpture plays Beethoven when you clap…

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Happy Birthday to Frank Lloyd Wright
Elderly person with suit and tie, light hair, resting chin on hands, contemplative expression.

Happy Birthday to Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture Art & Collection Exhibitions

Today’s post was prepared by Dylan Turk, a curatorial assistant here at Crystal Bridges. Lately he has been working with our interpretation team to prepare information panels for Frank Lloyd Wright’s…

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American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life, Part II
Still life with corn, melon, cucumber, potato, and ceramic jar on a dark surface.

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life, Part II

Art & Collection Exhibitions

Part 2 of 3 Click here to view Part 1 Today Crystal Bridges opens American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life, the fourth and final exhibition in a series…

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The Bubble: An Artist and Her Model
Statue on one leg with sphere on pedestal in fountain amid grass and trees, black and white photo.

The Bubble: An Artist and Her Model

Art & Collection

Any visitor to Crystal Bridges has admired The Bubble, the lovely bronze sculpture my Harriet Frishmuth that graces the Museum’s Late Nineteenth-Century Art Gallery.  Frishmuth specialized in creating expressive sculptures…

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A Conversation with the Conservator
Assortment of aged mechanical parts and corroded metal components in a close-up view.

A Conversation with the Conservator

Art & Collection Nature & Outdoor

Conservation is an ongoing concern in any museum, whether it be an art museum, natural history museum, or archive. Crystal Bridges works regularly with various conservators who keep tabs on…

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One BIG Painting: Mehretu's "Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation"
People carefully handling large abstract painting in well-lit gallery, using gloves for installation.

One BIG Painting: Mehretu's "Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation"

Art & Collection

On Tuesday, Crystal Bridges’ team of preparators installed a new painting in the Museum’s south lobby. Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation, by Julie Mehretu, measures 17 feet long and just over…

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Sappho
A marble statue of a seated woman in classical attire with curls and a necklace.

Sappho

Art & Collection
Sappho, the famous Greek poet of love, was born around 615 BC on the island of Lesbos. In the few fragments of her work that survive, she wrote passionately and unabashedly about…
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Cleaning the Fish
Red fish swimming in coral and seaweed, green underwater scene.

Cleaning the Fish

Art & Collection Exhibitions Library Nature & Outdoor

Fish Stories is a temporary exhibition featuring 20 color prints from Game Fishes of the United States, 1879 -1880, illustrated by Samuel A. Kilbourne (1836-1881), which is in the collection of the…

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Looking Closely at Chuck Close
Monochrome portrait of a man with glasses, framed and displayed with descriptive plaque.

Looking Closely at Chuck Close

Art & Collection

One of the most arresting works in the newly re-configured 1940s to Now Gallery is Chuck Close’s self-portrait. This large-scale black-and-white artwork looks, at a glance, like an Impressionistic rendering…

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Haggadahs for Passover from the Museum Library
Surreal watercolor with a three-faced head and Hebrew script on a yellowish background.

Haggadahs for Passover from the Museum Library

Art & Collection Library
Saturday, April 4, begins the celebration of Passover.  We encourage your to visit the Museum Library and view one of the several Haggadahs including one of the most stunning modern…
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Grace Hartigan
Person painting abstract artwork on large canvas in studio, wearing patterned sweater and jeans.

Grace Hartigan

Art & Collection Exhibitions

March 28  is the birthday of one of Abstract Expressionists’ leading female artists: Grace Hartigan. She was well known for her gestural, intensely colored paintings. Because she joined the movement later,…

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Josef Albers
Josef Albers

Josef Albers

Art & Collection Library

Interaction of Color includes a number of color plates that demonstrate the points Albers makes in his lessons.  He also encouraged students to collect swatches of colored paper to experiment…

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Women's History Month: Helen Frankenthaler
Abstract painting with vibrant blue, green, yellow, and red flowing shapes.

Women's History Month: Helen Frankenthaler

Art & Collection Exhibitions

Helen Frankenthaler, 1928 – 2011 Helen Frankenthaler’s cheerful Color Field painting Tutti-Fruitti is currently on view at Crystal Bridges as part of the temporary exhibition Van Gogh to Rothko: Masterworks…

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Winter in the Country
Snowy landscape with a frozen pond, skaters, barren trees, rolling hills, and birds in the sky.

Winter in the Country

Art & Collection
It’s snowing at Crystal Bridges today:  tiny flakes that are cascading off the arch of the roof in white streamers with the wind. It’s a beautiful, if slightly forlorn display.…
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