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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).
Community Voices: Music Moves (Reggie James and Anthony Ball)
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Community Voices: Music Moves (Reggie James and Anthony Ball)

People & Community

In our work with community art engagement, our Community team has met some incredible artists and community leadership throughout Northwest Arkansas, but we have also encountered some harsh realities of…

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New Audio Tour: Walk Through Crystal Bridges with Alice Walton
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New Audio Tour: Walk Through Crystal Bridges with Alice Walton

Art & Collection At the Museum

“I’m Alice Walton, and I am delighted to take you on this tour today.”  So begins the museum’s newest audio tour, Alice Walton Talks Art. In this self-guided tour, take…

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Ansel Adams...in Space!
Tetons and Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, snow-capped mountains, cloudy sky, Wyoming.

Ansel Adams...in Space!

Exhibitions
  NASA produced two identical Golden Records, one for each spacecraft, both of which are now traveling in separate directions from our solar system. According to the NASA website, “On…
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Crystal Bridges Acquires Martin’s Cincuentañera by Shizu Saldamando
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Crystal Bridges Acquires Martin’s Cincuentañera by Shizu Saldamando

Art & Collection

Crystal Bridges is excited to acquire a new work by contemporary artist Shizu Saldamando titled Martin’s Cincuentañera.   About Martin’s Cincuentañera Saldamando’s artwork Martin’s Cincuentañera (2018) features Martin Crudo, the…

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Buy Ruth Asawa Stamps from the US Postal Service
United States 2020 postage stamp with Ruth Asawa's abstract wire sculptures,

Buy Ruth Asawa Stamps from the US Postal Service

Art & Collection
The US Postal Service is honoring the life and career of Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa, whose work is found in the Crystal Bridges collection, with a beautiful stamp collection…
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Why We Are Placing Ansel Adams in Our Time
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Why We Are Placing Ansel Adams in Our Time

Exhibitions

Ansel Adams is a familiar name to people both in and outside the art world. His photographs of the American West are squarely ingrained in popular imagination and are rightfully…

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi and the Importance of Advocating for Artists (AAA Series)
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi and the Importance of Advocating for Artists (AAA Series)

Art & Collection
In this blog series, the Crystal Bridges Curatorial team explores stories of American art paired with archival photographs courtesy of the Archives of American Art (AAA), Smithsonian Institution. In this…
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A Teen Council Leader Looks Back on Her Time at the Museum
Ally Swindell

A Teen Council Leader Looks Back on Her Time at the Museum

Teens
Finding Mentors Until this November, we had been led by Holly York, who I appreciate greatly and who I am sure is thriving in her new position. Following her departure,…
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Bringing Art to Youth with My Museum Kit
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Bringing Art to Youth with My Museum Kit

Activities & Education

Earlier this summer, as classes and camps were canceled to stop the spread of coronavirus, Crystal Bridges’ Education and Community Engagement departments sprung into action to develop a project that…

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Charlie Chaplin: Laughing at Modernism
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Charlie Chaplin: Laughing at Modernism

Art & Collection At the Museum

In our newly remodeled Modern Art Gallery, a clip of Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film Modern Times plays next to artworks depicting changes in technology, industry, and society in the twentieth…

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State of the Art 2020 Update: Crystal Bridges Acquires Artworks and a New VR Experience
Gallery view of State of the Art 2020 exhibition

State of the Art 2020 Update: Crystal Bridges Acquires Artworks and a New VR Experience

Art & Collection Exhibitions

In his paintings, video installations, assemblage works, sculptures, and performances, Paul Stephen Benjamin explores the questions, “What is the color black?” and “If the color black had a sound, what…

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After The Last Supper Returns to the Galleries This Saturday
Art installation depicting The Last Supper using vertical hanging elements in a dim gallery.

After The Last Supper Returns to the Galleries This Saturday

Exhibitions
Putting the spotlight on a single work from the Crystal Bridges permanent collection, a new focus exhibition opening this Saturday, July 11 features After The Last Supper (2005) by Devorah…
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Crystal Bridges Acquires Native American Art from Bruce Hartman Collection
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Crystal Bridges Acquires Native American Art from Bruce Hartman Collection

Art & Collection

Crystal Bridges is excited to announce the acquisition of 31 modern and contemporary artworks by 25 Native American artists from the Bruce Hartman collection in Kansas City, Missouri. The collection…

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Shine This Summer with New Museum Store Products
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Shine This Summer with New Museum Store Products

Museum Store
Get into the spirit of summer with these new products from the Museum Store! We have one-of-a-kind items in fashion, home decor, and gardening to make you feel bright, colorful,…
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¿Qué hay de nuevo en las galerías de arte moderno? (en Español)
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¿Qué hay de nuevo en las galerías de arte moderno? (en Español)

Art & Collection
No te pierdas un clip de Tiempos modernos, un largometraje de 1936, escrito y dirigido por Charlie Chaplin. La película, protagoniza a Chaplin como un trabajador de línea de ensamblaje…
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What's New in the Modern Art Galleries?
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What's New in the Modern Art Galleries?

Art & Collection
Don’t miss a short clip of Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 film. Modern Times stars Chaplin as an assembly line worker struggling to survive the modern, industrialized world. Radical changes in technology,…
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Remembering Juneteenth at Crystal Bridges
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Remembering Juneteenth at Crystal Bridges

Art & Collection

Effective in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a presidential proclamation and executive order, known as the Emancipation Proclamation, stating that all slaves in the United States were now free. However,…

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Serving the Community with Meals and Art Kits
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Serving the Community with Meals and Art Kits

People & Community

Working on-site at Crystal Bridges with proper safety protocols in place, staff volunteered 1,678 hours to pack approximately 6,600 boxes of food for the Food Bank and over 25,000 meals…

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Postcard Power! Bringing Art to the Community with the Social Connecting Campaign
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Postcard Power! Bringing Art to the Community with the Social Connecting Campaign

People & Community

Once the designs were made, we then called upon our local community to give life to the postcards by coloring in the artists’ drawings and writing messages of hope to…

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Celebrating Queer Artists in the Crystal Bridges Collection
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Celebrating Queer Artists in the Crystal Bridges Collection

Art & Collection

Here, we examine the storied histories of a few artists and artworks in the Crystal Bridges collection that identify as LGBTQ+.

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