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'Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art'

'The Cost of Cheapness' filmmakers capture Walmart’s imprint on Arkansas and beyond

A conversation with the makers of a new 8-minute film documenting the environmental consequences of Walmart’s business practices and the many ways the Walton family continues to shape Northwest Arkansas in their image.
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The New York Times writes about Crystal Bridges' Annie Leibovitz exhibition

The show marks the the first time acclaimed portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz has made new work specifically for a museum.
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Annie Leibovitz exhibition opens soon at Crystal Bridges

What does it mean to take a picture of someone whose life revolves around being documented? This is one of the essential questions guiding the work of photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose new exhibition at Crystal Bridges opens on Saturday, Sept. 16.

AMFA's 'Delta Voices' brings together artists and curators from Mid-South region

Curators from and artists selected by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Philbrook Museum of Art and the AMFA are banding together for "Delta Voices."
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Four on the floor: ideas for your summer road trip (or for staying put)

In the event your wellspring of vacation ideas has run dry — or that your wallet threatens coup d’etat when you type the word “airfare to Reykjavik” into your search engine — we’ve got you covered. 

State of the arts: Why you should make a visit to Arkansas’s major museums

Check in on upcoming programming at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Momentary, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Native American History and more.
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FreshGrass Festival returns to Bentonville next weekend

The list of headliners promises a master class in how ideas around country and traditional music forms are being reconsidered and revived, with sets from Mavis Staples, Del McCoury, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Ferrell and more.

Expansive Diego Rivera exhibit opens at Crystal Bridges on Saturday

“Diego Rivera’s America,” last housed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, is significant because of its expansiveness: Over 150 drawings, easel paintings, frescoes and more from the early 1920s through the early 1940s will be featured, as well as large-scale digitally projected recreations of his massive public art pieces.
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'A Divided Landscape' at the Momentary rethinks traditional frontier narratives

Nineteenth century painters liked to romanticize the beauty of the West, but in doing so left out the darker realities of settler colonialism. In the exhibit “A Divided Landscape,” seven contemporary artists are sharing the full story of the American West with paintings, drawings, sculpture and mixed media installations.

Two Arkansas stops for Sky Creature this week

Sky Creature in Bentonville and Hot Springs this week.
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'The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse' up at Crystal Bridges, with July 16 show from Big Boi and Run the Jewels

In conjunction with “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse” — a visual exhibit displaying “100 years of visual art, material objects, sound and music to explore how Black culture, across time and geography, has shaped and influenced the South and U.S. contemporary culture at large” — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is bringing hip-hop royalty to the stage on the Momentary Green, with a July 16 show from Big Boi (OutKast) and Run the Jewels.

$10 million for internship program at Crystal Bridges from Alice Walton Foundation

Another big gift from Alice Walton to Crystal Bridges.
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