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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).
Crystal Bridges Announces Alice Neel Acquisition and Members Preview
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Crystal Bridges Announces Alice Neel Acquisition and Members Preview

Art & Collection

Crystal Bridges is pleased to announce the acquisition of a portrait of actor Hugh Hurd (1925-1995), by Alice Neel (1900-1984).   Neel is one of the most important American portrait…

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Never Too Late: Late Bloomers in Crystal Bridges' Collection
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Never Too Late: Late Bloomers in Crystal Bridges' Collection

Art & Collection
It may not surprise you to learn that many of the people who work in various capacities at Crystal Bridges are practicing artists in their own right. After all, it makes…
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A Musical Crystal Bridges Tour, Courtesy of the Teen Council
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A Musical Crystal Bridges Tour, Courtesy of the Teen Council

Art & Collection
Crystal Bridges' Teen Council is a group of awesome high school students from all across our area who meet regularly to socialize, learn about the museum, participate in artmaking activities,…
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Childe Hassam's Paris at Twilight
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Childe Hassam's Paris at Twilight

Art & Collection
As the days grow shorter, many of us we find ourselves coming home from work around 5:30, just as it is beginning to get dark.  Paris at Twilight, by Childe Hassam,…
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Dance Historian Thomas DeFrantz on The Art of American Dance
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Dance Historian Thomas DeFrantz on The Art of American Dance

Exhibitions

Thomas DeFrantz is a dance historian, a professor in the dance, theater studies, and women’s studies departments at Duke University, as well as the Chair of African and African American…

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Dance in Crystal Bridges Rare Books
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Dance in Crystal Bridges Rare Books

Exhibitions Library
Now through January 16, 2017, Crystal Bridges is hosting the Art of American Dance, a traveling exhibition that explores the interaction between dance and visual art.  In today's post, Jon…
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Celebrating Thanksgiving and Audubon’s Festive Fowls
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Celebrating Thanksgiving and Audubon’s Festive Fowls

Art & Collection

Black Friday is behind us, yet many of us are still finding ways to get creative with the post-Thanksgiving leftover turkey. Whether you love this traditional holiday fowl or banish…

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Happy Birthday Walt Kuhn
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Happy Birthday Walt Kuhn

Art & Collection Exhibitions
Today we celebrate the birthday of artist Walt Kuhn and his uniquely American Modernist style. Highly influenced by the theater, Kuhn was not just an artist, but a costume designer,…
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Five Years and Counting: Growing and Sharing Crystal Bridges' Collection
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Five Years and Counting: Growing and Sharing Crystal Bridges' Collection

Art & Collection
As Crystal Bridges approaches its fifth anniversary, we’ll be writing blog posts that highlight the Museum’s changes and accomplishments since opening on November 11, 2011.   First up:  Let’s talk…
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Happy Birthday, Benjamin West!
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Happy Birthday, Benjamin West!

Art & Collection

October 10, 2016, marks the 278th birthday of artist Benjamin West. You may know him from his painting, Cupid and Psyche, on view in Crystal Bridges Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century…

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Welcoming Wall Drawing 880: Loopy Doopy by Sol LeWitt
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Welcoming Wall Drawing 880: Loopy Doopy by Sol LeWitt

Art & Collection
by Samantha Sigmon, with Rome Font   A drawing painted directly on the wall cannot simply be taken out of a museum, it must be painted over, so, what is…
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Happy Birthday, George de Forest Brush!
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Happy Birthday, George de Forest Brush!

Art & Collection

Within the focus exhibition Changing Perspectives of Native Americans, located  in Crystal Bridges’ Colonial and Early Nineteenth-Century Art Gallery, hangs one of Crystal Bridges most popular paintings, The Indian and…

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Tell All in the Truth Booth
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Tell All in the Truth Booth

At the Museum

Most of the time, you can’t touch art. It kind of sucks, because art is so beautiful! It just hangs there, so luscious and lovely, under a halo of golden…

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Happy Birthday, Charles Bird King!
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Happy Birthday, Charles Bird King!

Art & Collection
While portraiture may seem to imitate life, throughout history it has also served to influence life and affect public perception. Today, September 26,  we celebrate the birthday of Charles Bird…
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Museum Careers: A Spotlight on Exhibition Designer Jessi Mueller
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Museum Careers: A Spotlight on Exhibition Designer Jessi Mueller

Architecture People & Community

Interpretation Intern Rome Font prepared today’s blog post on Crystal Bridges’ Exhibition Designer, Jessi Mueller.  This continues a series we’re building about careers in museums. –LD   “A lot of people think…

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Minimalism and Murder: A Glimpse at the Relationship of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta

Minimalism and Murder: A Glimpse at the Relationship of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta

Art & Collection
This post was prepared by Danny Baskin, Crystal Bridges' summer intern in the Interpretation Department.  --LD   In the late spring of 2014, a crowd gathered around a smeared pile…
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Happy Birthday, Harriet Frishmuth!
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Happy Birthday, Harriet Frishmuth!

Art & Collection
September 17, 2016, marks Harriet Whitney Frishmuth’s 136th birthday. Although the name might not ring a bell immediately, those of you who have had the chance to stroll through the…
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Stories from American Made: Portraits by Ammi Phillips
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Stories from American Made: Portraits by Ammi Phillips

Exhibitions
One of the most interesting, and challenging, parts of my job as an Interpretation Manager at Crystal Bridges involves developing engaging interactive activities for our visitors. For American Made, I…
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New on View: Untitled (Palais De Cristal) by Joseph Cornell
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New on View: Untitled (Palais De Cristal) by Joseph Cornell

Art & Collection

Joseph Cornell Untitled (Palais de Cristal), ca. 1953 Wood box construction: printed-paper collage, glass, and metal 13 in. × 9 1/4 in. × 4 1/4 in. (33 × 23.5 ×…

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Stories from American Made: Map Quilt—Stitching our Way from Sea to Shining Sea
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Stories from American Made: Map Quilt—Stitching our Way from Sea to Shining Sea

Exhibitions
Map Quilt Artist unidentified Possibly Virginia 1886 Silk and cotton with silk embroidery Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. C. David McLaughlin, 1987. Photo…
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