by - February 22, 2015 11:08 am
For many, the 20th century art movements that feature wall-size canvases covered with swaths of single colors of paint are difficult to understand, let alone put into context with the…
by - January 28, 2015 1:12 pm
In 1957 “Judge Parker’s” courtroom and gallows reopened for business as Fort Smith began its wager that selling its 19th century history to tourists would create an economic bonanza for…
by - January 18, 2015 5:29 pm
On Saturday (Jan. 17), guests at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art had the rare opportunity to chat with 10 artists from all over the country about their art. The…
by - December 18, 2014 1:02 pm
Museum curators knew they had a winner on their hands early on with the State of the Art: Discovering American Art exhibit. Crystal Bridges reports more than 127,000 visitors have…
by - November 2, 2014 3:40 pm
Frankenstein and his bride strolled past Snow White and Grumpy in the halls of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Friday night (Oct. 31). They and approximately 400 other…
by - July 28, 2014 5:41 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art employees Manuela Well-Off-Man and Chad Alligood have been promoted to curator, and Mindy Besaw has joined the museum as a curator. She previously worked…
by - June 23, 2014 11:13 am
Looking at the summer night sky is a favorite past-time for many families but an event at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Saturday (June 21) took that experience to…
by - June 20, 2014 1:18 pm
Saudi Arabian Prince Saud bin Khalid Al-Faisal recently visited NanoMech and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Northwest Arkansas as part of a Eisenhower Fellowship trip to investigate…
by - April 23, 2014 5:23 pm
Sandra Keiser Edwards, deputy director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, will receive the Western Illinois University Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Western's spring 2014 commencement exercises on…
by - March 19, 2014 6:27 am
When Ralph Overstreet bought a watch repair shop on Bentonville’s town square in 1948, the city had less than 3,000 residents, no one had ever heard of Sam Walton, and…
by - February 16, 2014 9:18 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art hosted its second annual anti-Valentine’s Day bash, the Black Hearts Ball, Saturday night (Feb. 15), attracting the young and young-at-heart. The 500 guests were…
by - February 13, 2014 6:40 pm
Quick. Think of someone you know with a proverbial heart of gold. That warm feeling you get inside from thinking about them is exactly what you can expect to feel…
by - February 6, 2014 3:14 pm
Coca Cola has sponsored the addition of a “Hydration Station” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. The station is a covered pavilion that will serve as a…
by - January 15, 2014 10:08 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Wednesday (Jan. 15) hosted Kris Moon, Director of Strategic Partnerships for the James Beard Foundation in New York, to attend a lunch highlighting…
by - January 15, 2014 5:41 pm
That a Frank Lloyd Wright designed home is art is not a revelation, but to move such a home almost 1,100 miles to be actual art on the Bentonville grounds…
by - January 13, 2014 1:04 pm
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art hosted Sarah Greenough, senior curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for a special lecture on legendary art couple,…
by - January 1, 2014 5:05 pm
At Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, more than 700 people celebrated the dawning of the new year with more than standard-issue champagne and fireworks. The museum held its inaugural…
by - December 5, 2013 4:33 pm
In this space in September we encouraged, no, we begged, Alice Walton, the Wal-Mart heiress and the signature/dreamer builder/financier of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, to please purchase…
by - November 15, 2013 3:47 pm
On Thursday (Nov. 14), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art hosted "The Show of the Century" as a part of its Art Night Out program. More than 100 guests enjoyed…
by - November 11, 2013 3:11 pm
One of the more interesting lessons learned during the first two years of operations at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville is that the door handle labels reading…
