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What Do You See in The Garden?

What Do You See in The Garden?

Exhibitions
The Garden exhibition, located between the Early American and Modern Art Galleries, takes you on a journey exploring flowers in different contexts to celebrate the connection between art, design, nature,…
#ArtistatCB: Jessica Pezalla

#ArtistatCB: Jessica Pezalla

At the Museum Exhibitions

We’re kicking off #ArtistatCB with Jessica Pezalla, an artist and designer featured in the new focused exhibition The Garden!

About Martin

About Martin

Exhibitions

April 4 marks the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. To commemorate this day, admission is free to Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. In…

Soul of a Nation Focus: Art Is… by Lorraine O’Grady

Soul of a Nation Focus: Art Is… by Lorraine O’Grady

Exhibitions
  A conceptual artist, performer and critic, O’Grady’s early work involved guerilla infiltration five years before the Guerilla Girls – a group of feminist artist that broadcasted inequality through unauthorized…
Soul of a Nation. Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell: Partners in Life and Art

Soul of a Nation. Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell: Partners in Life and Art

Exhibitions
  Their works Revolutionary, by Wadsworth, and Revolutionary Suit, by Jae, are displayed together in Soul of a Nation, even though they were created three years apart and only indirectly…
Soul of a Nation: An Interview with Carolyn Mims Lawrence

Soul of a Nation: An Interview with Carolyn Mims Lawrence

Exhibitions
Carolyn Mims Lawrence was one of the artists who contributed to The Wall of Respect, a mural created in 1967 at the corner of  43rd Street and Langley Avenue in…
Soul of a Nation: AfriCOBRA

Soul of a Nation: AfriCOBRA

Exhibitions
  Our people are our standard for excellence. We strive for images inspired by African people—experience and images that African people can relate to directly without formal art training and/or…
Art in the Age of Black Power

Art in the Age of Black Power

Exhibitions
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X may have had very different ideas of the best way to fight discrimination, oppression, and violence directed at African American people, but…
The Spooky and Strangely Poetic Story of Fin, Stuart Davis’s final painting

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…
Indigenous People's Day: Exploring the work of Native American artist Carl Beam

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…
Women's History Month: Pam Longobardi's Plastic Oceans

Women's History Month: Pam Longobardi's Plastic Oceans

Art & Collection Exhibitions
Pam Longobardi’s artwork is framed within a conversation about globalism and conservation, and involves painting, photography, and installation. In 2006, she founded the Drifters Project, an international collaborative artistic research…
Borders and Books: Crystal Bridges Library display illuminates the history of the US-Mexico boundary

Borders and Books: Crystal Bridges Library display illuminates the history of the US-Mexico boundary

Exhibitions Library
Mexico and the United States have a long paradoxical history together, characterized by territorial exchange and war, but also cooperation and peace. Following the theme of Border Cantos, the Crystal…
Dance Historian Thomas DeFrantz on The Art of American Dance

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…

Dance in Crystal Bridges Rare Books

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…
Happy Birthday Walt Kuhn

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,…
Stories from American Made: Portraits by Ammi Phillips

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

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…
Studio Snapshot: Ben Edwards

Studio Snapshot: Ben Edwards

At the Museum Exhibitions

Today’s post was prepared for us by Kiara Page, a summer intern for Crystal Bridges’ Public Programs department.    This summer I got the opportunity to work as an intern…

Stories from American Made: Ithaca Falls Chair

Stories from American Made: Ithaca Falls Chair

Exhibitions
Armchair with View of Ithaca Falls Chairmaker unidentified; decoration probably by R.H. Ranney (dates unknown), Ithaca, New York ca. 1817-1825 Paint, bronze-powder stenciling, and gold leaf on wood, with rush…
Stories from American Made: Carousel Horse

Stories from American Made: Carousel Horse

Exhibitions
CAROUSEL HORSE with Lowered Head Charles Carmel (1865-1931) Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York ca. 1914 Paint on wood with glass eyes and horsehair Collection American Folk Art Museum, New York Gift…
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