100,000-SF Crystal Bridges Expansion Underway
The expansion will "supercharge" the institution, said Rod Bigelow, the Bentonville museum’s executive director. read more >
The expansion will "supercharge" the institution, said Rod Bigelow, the Bentonville museum’s executive director. read more >
The gift from the Alice L. Walton Foundation will help recruit interns from underrepresented communities and evaluate the program's impact. read more >
She takes over as the museum embarks on a 100,000-SF expansion with an estimated cost of over $100 million. read more >
After a decade, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is seen as a catalyst for northwest Arkansas development. read more >
Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art says it will expand the museum by 50%, adding nearly 100,000 SF to the 200,000-SF facility in Bentonville. read more >
The Momentary opened to great fanfare in February 2020 in Bentonville, celebrating itself as the relaxed “living room” contemporary art satellite museum of the famed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. read more >
Alice Walton’s nonprofit Whole Health Institute will be designed by famed Fayetteville architect Marlon Blackwell and will be located on the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. read more >
The Windgate Foundation has provided a $17.5 million gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, to fund a dedicated position, research, programmatic support and an acquisitions fund that will bring craft objects into the museum’s permanent collection. read more >
Walmart Inc. of Bentonville donates $2 million to The Momentary, a new contemporary arts venue by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art scheduled to open in early 2020. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has announced Lieven Bertels, a native of Belgium with a background in international arts festivals, as director of its new arts venue being developed in a former Kraft Foods plant in downtown Bentonville. read more >
The Bentonville museum announces its exhibition schedule for 2018. read more >
There are any number of ways to try to gauge the impact — economic and otherwise — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has had on Bentonville, on Arkansas and beyond since its opening Nov. 11, 2011. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces the installation of several major loans, including Pablo Picasso's "Seated Woman in Chemise (1923)," on loan from the Tate Modern in London; and Philip Haas' "The Four Seasons (2011)," on loan from Sonnabend Gallery on behalf of the artist. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art said Tuesday that it will turn a decommissioned, 63,000-SF Kraft Foods plant in Bentonville into a visual and performing art space. read more >
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on Tuesday announced several appointments relating to museum development and fundraising, including that of chief strategy officer, a new position. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art elevated northwest Arkansas' cultural prominence when it opened in 2011, and now the Walton Family Foundation is exploring ways to build off of that momentum. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces several major acquisitions, including a painting by James McNeill Whistler and a special commission to Maya Lin, the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. read more >
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville said Wednesday that it plans to open the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Bachman-Wilson House on Nov. 11. 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 >
