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One Family’s Focus on the Future
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One Family’s Focus on the Future

People & Community

“I don’t think much about the past. I think more about the future. I prefer to be thinking about what I want to be doing tomorrow.” – Dale Chihuly…

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New Artwork Looks Back At You
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New Artwork Looks Back At You

Art & Collection
Crystal Bridges is delighted to present a brand-new artwork created just for our museum by artist Nina Chanel Abney. Nina was onsite at the museum creating this artwork for the…
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Titus Kaphar Amends History
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Titus Kaphar Amends History

Art & Collection
    Kaphar sampled aspects from this painting in his rendering and then attached pieces of torn canvas with rusted nails in order to expose the hidden context of Andrew…
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Have a Chokecherry…and a Smile
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Have a Chokecherry…and a Smile

Culinary
If you’re looking for something new to bring to the holiday dinner table this season, look no further than the chokecherry, also known as bitter-berry or Prunus virginiana, if you…
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Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: A lifetime friendship of like minds
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Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: A lifetime friendship of like minds

Art & Collection
Today is the birithday of artist Isamu Noguchi, born November 17, 1904.   In early 1929, Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) stepped into the splashy Romany Marie’s, a Greenwich Village tavern covered…
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Maya Lin's Crystal Bridges Connection
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Maya Lin's Crystal Bridges Connection

Art & Collection
  Artist Maya Lin's (b. 1959) sculpture Silver Upper White River (recycled silver, 2015) is on display at Crystal Bridges.  Many readers may already be familiar with Lin; it was…
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Native American Heritage: Emmi Whitehorse
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Native American Heritage: Emmi Whitehorse

Art & Collection
November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States. To celebrate, we will be appreciating the work of some of the Native American artists in our collection throughout the…
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The Spooky and Strangely Poetic Story of Fin, Stuart Davis’s final painting
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The Spooky and Strangely Poetic Story of Fin, Stuart Davis’s final painting

Art & Collection Exhibitions
When Stuart Davis passed away in 1964, he left an amazing body of work spanning the first half of the 20th century that reflected, through his very personal and particular…
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Happy Birthday Lee Krasner!
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Happy Birthday Lee Krasner!

Art & Collection
October 27, 1908,  is the birthday of Lee Krasner. For many women throughout history, the reputation of their spouse has been remembered more completely than their own legacy. Lee Krasner,…
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Windows to the Soul : a Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg
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Windows to the Soul : a Tribute to Robert Rauschenberg

Art & Collection
      When I first witnessed Bed I was studying in New York City and took a trip to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. I was studying…
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Friday the Thirteenth: A Spooky Story about the Elusive Ms. Crystal
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Friday the Thirteenth: A Spooky Story about the Elusive Ms. Crystal

At the Museum

The collections management team has always jokingly made reference to “Ms. Crystal, the ghost of Crystal Bridges”: an impish phantom whom we credit with the odd late-night shenanigans some of…

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Greetings from Russell’s Corners on George Copeland Ault’s Birthday
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Greetings from Russell’s Corners on George Copeland Ault’s Birthday

Art & Collection
Autumn is upon us and soon, perhaps, rural areas of our region may look similar to George Copeland Ault’s 1944 painting Daylight at Russell’s Corners. In celebration of the artist’s…
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Happy Birthday to Benjamin West, America’s First Great Painter
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Happy Birthday to Benjamin West, America’s First Great Painter

Art & Collection
Most of us can recall the names of famous Americans from the Colonial era, many of whom would later be known as “Founding Fathers.” Names like Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere,…
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Indigenous People's Day: Exploring the work of Native American artist Carl Beam
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Indigenous People's Day: Exploring the work of Native American artist Carl Beam

Exhibitions
Across the nation, individual city governments are renaming Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day. As of 2017, 525 years have passed since the landing of the Santa Maria upon the…
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Dirty Deals: Jack Levine skewers American politics
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Dirty Deals: Jack Levine skewers American politics

Art & Collection
Jack Levine’s 1983 painting The Arms Brokers is one of many political protest work he created during his career.  The painting features many well-known political figures from the 1980s, including…
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Introducing Sam Gilliam’s Black and Golden Door!
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Introducing Sam Gilliam’s Black and Golden Door!

Art & Collection
    Samantha Sigmon, Interpretation Manager Gabi Andino, Interpretation Intern   “Gilliam is not an artist to labor in the past for its own sake, rather, he explores it primarily…
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The Sad True Story of Mister Crowley of Central Park
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The Sad True Story of Mister Crowley of Central Park

Art & Collection
   A painting popular with Crystal Bridges visitors features a chimpanzee, seated in a chair, holding a copy of Charles Darwin’s 1871 classic The Descent of Man, and Selection in…
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Different Hats: the Duties of a Protection Specialist
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Different Hats: the Duties of a Protection Specialist

People & Community

Justin Elwood has been on the Protection Services team at Crystal Bridges for a couple of years, but is new to the museum’s blog.  I’m pleased to have him on…

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Our Immigrant Nation: Yasuo Kuniyoshi
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Our Immigrant Nation: Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Art & Collection
The United States is an unusually diverse country, built and populated by immigrants from every nation in the world.  Despite this, throughout American history, immigrants have also been the targets…
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The Marvelous, Mystical Morris Graves
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The Marvelous, Mystical Morris Graves

Art & Collection
Today is the birthday of artist Morris Graves, whose wonderful painting, Spirit Bird with Minnow, is part of Crystal Bridges’ permanent collection, and my favorite, though it has not been…
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