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'State of the Art'

Saturday to-do: See 'State of the Art' again, as told by the Renaud brothers

"State of the Art," a film by award-winning filmmakers Craig and Brent Renaud about the 2014-15 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art exhibition of the same name, will get a free preview screening at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at the Ron Robinson Theater in the River Market district. The film will then be aired on AETN at 8 p.m. Friday, April 26.
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Blue Hog Report smells shenanigans in plea agreement, political contribution to Kemp

Citizen journalist Matt Campbell's Blue Hog Report has a new post out about Judge Dan Kemp of Stone County, who is currently running for Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court against Justice Courtney Goodson. Specifically, Campbell is on the trail of a 2014 case in which a Stone County woman reached a plea agreement before Kemp on two drug-related felonies just before her influential parents made a contribution to Kemp's campaign and, later, a public endorsement.
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'State of the Art': Giving artists a national stage

An article on the Huff Post website by Mallika Rao is a nice recounting of the work that went into creating "State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now" at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The Arkansas Times' Art Bus rides again Nov. 8 to Crystal Bridges to see this show, which President Don Bacigalupi refers to in the article as "a truer image of the country" than, say, the Whitney Biennial (the art press has given the exhibit the nickname the "anti-Whitney."). The article names four artists in the show to prove that point.

WSJ on 'State of the Art': Kept soft for the naive among us: UPDATE

The WSJ on the show at Crystal Bridges: "kept to a PG-13 rating in the hope that CBMAA's viewers—many of whom are first-time museum-goers—might be led somewhat gently into the problematic precincts of contemporary art."
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Texas blog Glasstire reviews "State of the Art"

So it won't be until November that I get to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art's "State of the Art" exhibit, and by then it will have been reviewed by every publication in the free world. So I'm going to run the reviews other folks have written.

The 'State of the Art' Four: Salvest, Martin, Bell, Lopez

"State of the Art" coming to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in September will feature more than 200 works by 102 artists selected by museum President Don Bacigalupi and assistant curator Chad Alligood, including work by painter Guy Bell, ceramicist Linda Lopez, printmaker Delita Martin and conceptual artist John Salvest, all of Arkansas.
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Coming to Crystal Bridges in 2014: 'State of the Art'

President, curator are traveling the country to choose 100 from 1,000 artists.
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