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Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome, and an unusual collaboration

Buckminster Fuller's Fly's Eye Dome, and an unusual collaboration

Architecture

Get ready to expand your definition of our world and your place in it by delving into the philosophy and work of R. Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (1895-1983) with two exhibitions…

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New Acquisition: Elsie Driggs's Blast Furnace

New Acquisition: Elsie Driggs's Blast Furnace

Art & Collection
    New on view in Crystal Bridges' Early Twentieth-Century Art Gallery is Elsie Drigg's Precisionist painting, Blast Furnaces, created in 1927.     Elsie Driggs was born in 1898…
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Crystal Bridges Celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month by Remembering Artist/Activist Keith Haring

Crystal Bridges Celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month by Remembering Artist/Activist Keith Haring

Art & Collection
In remembrance of the 48th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that ignited the flame of the LGBT Civil Rights movement of the seventies and eighties, it seems appropriate to…
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Oh Deer! New Crystal Bridges Acquisition Visits Chicago

Oh Deer! New Crystal Bridges Acquisition Visits Chicago

Art & Collection

An enormous white tail deer, sculpted of painted fiberglass, recently appeared on the Riverwalk in Chicago, Illinois.  The sculpture, appropriately titled Deer, was created by artist Tony Tasset in 2015,…

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Robert Henri: American Original

Robert Henri: American Original

Art & Collection
  Instead of ascribing to the traditional norm of using predominantly white, upper-class subjects for painted portraits, Henri instead found inspiration in capturing the energy of everyday individuals. He also…
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Delta Dreams: Crystal Bridges Interns -- KIPP Delta Collegiate High Graduation

Delta Dreams: Crystal Bridges Interns -- KIPP Delta Collegiate High Graduation

Activities & Education At the Museum People & Community

Crystal Bridges’ High School Internship program, now in its second year, is currently in session. The program, funded by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, brings ten minority students…

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Experience from a Crystal Bridges High School Intern and Beyond

Experience from a Crystal Bridges High School Intern and Beyond

Teens

Last summer, LaCameria (“Cam”) Clark was one of the museum’s first class of Crystal Bridges’ high school residential interns. This competitive program brings a group of high school rising seniors from…

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Leading by Example: How Crystal Bridges is Taking on Diversity

Leading by Example: How Crystal Bridges is Taking on Diversity

People & Community

One of the initiatives Crystal Bridges has already put into place is a pilot for a paid internship program for minority high school students, funded through the Walton Family Foundation.…

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Juneteenth:  A Day to Reach for and Celebrate Our Highest Ideals

Juneteenth:  A Day to Reach for and Celebrate Our Highest Ideals

People & Community
Today is June 19, traditionally celebrated in African American communities as “Juneteenth,” or Emancipation Day. Although the Emancipation Proclamation, issued January 1, 1863, declared that all slaves in the rebelling…
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Little Known Facts about Frank Lloyd Wright

Little Known Facts about Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture

Today is the birthday of Frank Lloyd Wright, great American architect and designer of the Bachman-Wilson House here on Crystal Bridges’ grounds.  What do you know about Frank Lloyd Wright?…

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Library Displays Pop Art Materials

Library Displays Pop Art Materials

Library
Now through July 31, 2017, Crystal Bridges is hosting a focus exhibition on the work of Roy Lichtenstein. The exhibition, featuring five works from the artist’ early career in the…
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My Time on the Sod Squad: Prepping the Forest for Chihuly

My Time on the Sod Squad: Prepping the Forest for Chihuly

Nature & Outdoor People & Community
Crystal Bridges has a professional team who manages our 120 acres of forested grounds. It's a small, but DYNAMIC group of 8 men and women who keep everything mulched, watered,…
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May Day: Prints for the People

May Day: Prints for the People

Art & Collection
In honor of May Day: traditionally a celebration of Labor in many European countries, we will take a look at some works on paper in Crystal bridges collection that celebrate…
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The Powerful Influence of Walt Whitman

The Powerful Influence of Walt Whitman

Art & Collection
Walt Whitman is easily one of America’s most well-known poets. His collection, Leaves of Grass, was published in eight editions during his life, each with revisions and an expanded set…
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Teen Convening at Crystal Bridges

Teen Convening at Crystal Bridges

Teens

March 31 through April 2,  2017, Crystal Bridges’ Teen Council hosted their first Teen Convening at the museum. National Teen Convenings were first established in 2009 by the Institute of…

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Poetry and Art  

Poetry and Art  

Art & Collection
April is National Poetry Month!  In celebration, let me introduce you to a few works in Crystal Bridges’ collection with poetic connections.   Kindred Spirits The two figures in this…
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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century

Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Atkinson, Jr., Reunited for the First Time in Over a Century

Art & Collection
Beginning this week, the great colonial-era painter John Singleton Copley receives the special recognition he deserves in a spotlight corner of our Colonial to Early-Nineteenth Century Gallery, thanks in part…
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The April Fool Strikes Again: Dinosaur Finds Halt Construction at Crystal Bridges          

The April Fool Strikes Again: Dinosaur Finds Halt Construction at Crystal Bridges          

Nature & Outdoor

Bentonville — As workers were making improvements to Crystal Bridges’ trails last week, an unexpected discovery forced them to halt all construction while scientists study the find.  A backhoe operator…

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Women's History Month: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Women's History Month: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

Art & Collection
Sculptor and art collector Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942) was born the middle child in the midst of four brothers and was the great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, known for the railroad…
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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…
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