A little over a year ago, your Whispers staff speculated about the buyer of Norman Rockwell’s “Saying Grace,” which sold for $46 million, a record for an American painting, in a December 2013 auction at Sotheby’s. read more >
Margaret Conrads, who joined the museum in March as director of curatorial affairs, says that almost four years after opening, Crystal Bridges remains, to a degree, in startup mode. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville announces that Don Bacigalupi will leave as president but will retain his place on the museum's board. read more >
Officials with the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art travelled more than 100,000 miles to visit with artists across the United States last year in search of pieces for the museum’s new exhibit. read more >
Rod Bigelow was promoted to executive director of the Bentonville museum in February upon the promotion of former Executive Director Don Bacigalupi to the new position of museum president. read more >
The Art Newspaper publishes an annual list of the top 100 art museums in the world as measured by attendance. Though northwest Arkansas’ own doesn’t crack the list (topped by the Louvre, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the British Museum), it does get a nice mention. read more >
This week Arkansas Business premieres a new list of the state’s highest-paid nonprofit employees, which reveals that nonprofit hospital executives and physicians can be well-paid. read more >