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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…
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 –…
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…
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…
How do you practice guiding tours through a building that isn’t built yet? It’s a question that was troubling Alyssa Wilson, Crystal Bridges’ Guide Program Manager. Although the Bachman-Wilson House is…
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…
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…
There are a number of locations at Crystal Bridges that offer stunning views of the Museum architecture and landscape. However, the constrictions of the Museum’s site—down inside a ravine, surrounded…
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…
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…
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…
On May 16, Crystal Bridges will present the last installation of the fascinating American Encounters exhibition series. This year’s exhibition, organized by the High Museum in Atlanta, focuses on still-life…
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…
Another community activity within the app is tours. Of course there are the tours created by the Museum, but in this app we have also included the ability for you…
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…
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…
With the recent addition of the historic Bachman-Wilson House, Crystal Bridges has become an architectural destination as well as a destination for art and nature. Now the Museum plans to…
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,…
