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Looking Close and Finding Love
The dark blue-gray eye floats on the creamy white paper. It stares back, unblinking and life-sized. A reflected window arches over the iris, suggesting the human attached to this eye was indoors.
Conversations Across Collections: The Science of Martin Johnson Heade’s The Gems of Brazil
Crystal Bridges Acquires an Early Sam Gilliam Drape Painting
New Audio Tour: Walk Through Crystal Bridges with Alice Walton
“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…
Crystal Bridges Acquires Martin’s Cincuentañera by Shizu Saldamando
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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Yasuo Kuniyoshi and the Importance of Advocating for Artists (AAA Series)
Charlie Chaplin: Laughing at Modernism
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…
State of the Art 2020 Update: Crystal Bridges Acquires Artworks and a New VR Experience
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…
Crystal Bridges Acquires Native American Art from Bruce Hartman 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…
¿Qué hay de nuevo en las galerías de arte moderno? (en Español)
What's New in the Modern Art Galleries?
Remembering Juneteenth at Crystal Bridges
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,…
Celebrating Queer Artists in the Crystal Bridges Collection
Here, we examine the storied histories of a few artists and artworks in the Crystal Bridges collection that identify as LGBTQ+.
7 Book / Artwork Pairings to Add to Your List
An Interview with Artist Leo Villareal
![Left: Gari Melchers, The Embroideress [Portrait of Mrs. Hitchcock]; Right: Loie Hollowell, Mother's Milk](https://images.crystalbridges.org/uploads/2020/05/oddcouple1.png?resize=640%2C400&gravity "Left: Gari Melchers, The Embroideress [Portrait of Mrs. Hitchcock], ca. 1889, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (90.2 × 55.2 cm) Framed: 45 × 32 × 4 in. Promised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Right: Loie Hollowell, Mother's Milk, 2018, oil, acrylic medium, sawdust, and high-density foam on linen mounted on panel, 48 × 36 × 3 in. (121.9 × 91.4 × 7.6 cm). Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2019.1")
The Odd Couple: Hollowell and Melchers
The Ramsay-Polk Family: Family Portraits in the Age of Social Distancing
This post was written by Mindy N. Besaw, curator, American art and director of fellowships and research.
Teaching Empathy Through Art at Crystal Bridges
Empathy is a lesson that we should all refresh ourselves on from time to time. Now, with the help of teachers Julie Griggs (left) and Heather Hooks (right), we can!…
So You've Acquired An Artwork...Now What?
Ever wonder about the decision-making involved in choosing when, where, and how our artworks go on view? Once Crystal Bridges acquires an artwork, there are several questions that need to…