A world-class collection of American art, stunning architecture, and 120 acres of Ozark forest with five miles of trails. Admission to the museum is always free.
Planning a visit to Crystal Bridges this spring? Use this guide to learn what’s on and what to expect this season.
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Museum & Buildings
Trails and Grounds open daily sunrise to sunset.
Philip Haas’s set of monumental outdoor sculptures, The Four Seasons, are on display on the grounds at Crystal Bridges through the summer. These colorful and fanciful works are a perfect…
In honor of Women’s History Month, and our current temporary exhibition of photography, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, today’s Wednesday Women’s blog focuses on photographer Lida Moser.…
This weekend the temporary exhibition, Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre and the Art of Invention, opened at Crystal Bridges. It focuses around a single monumental painting by the man most…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
The Van Gogh to Rothko: Masterworks of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery exhibition features several magnificent paintings by leading twentieth-century female artists. Among the highlights is Lee Krasner’s Milkweed. Lee Krasner…
Helen Frankenthaler, 1928 – 2011 Helen Frankenthaler’s cheerful Color Field painting Tutti-Fruitti is currently on view at Crystal Bridges as part of the temporary exhibition Van Gogh to Rothko: Masterworks…
Changing Perspectives of Native Americans is a focus exhibition currently on view in the Museum’s Early Nineteenth-Century Art Gallery. The artworks featured—created by European and Euro-American artists—reflect shifting attitudes toward Native Americans.…
February 16 is the birthday of Edward Curtis – American frontier photographer and ethnologist, who became best-known for his epic work The North American Indian, produced between 1907 and 1930…
Today is the birthday of artist Jackson Pollock, born January 28, 1912. Pollock is well known as the quintessential American Abstract Expressionist painter: the poster child for action painting with his…
Today we present another guest blog post: this time by State of the Art artist Kristen Cliffel. Cliffel participated in the Museum’s Symposium in November, and returns to Crystal Bridges…
Cooler weather is upon us, and many of us, including me, treasure those last warm days of the year. As an Art Instructor for a museum that has over 3.5…
