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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art was founded by Alice Walton in 2011, with the aim of celebrating American art and culture while providing access to the arts in her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum is best known for its distinctive architecture, designed by Moshe Safdie, and its extensive collection of American art spanning five centuries. The permanent collection includes works by artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, reflecting the diversity and richness of American artistic heritage. Read more about Museums.

A painting of a woman in black by Rembrandt

From Storage to Spotlight: How D.C.’s National Gallery Is Redefining Access to Art

Rarely seen works will spend more time out of storage thanks to a new lending initiative that's not pegged to special exhibitions.
By Daniel Grant
The exterior of Los Angeles MOCA in the evening

L.A. Museums Are Rethinking the Rules of Art Ownership. Will Others Follow?

Museum collections double in size every 36 years, but most of that art is never seen by the public. With storage costs soaring and energy consumption rising, museums are facing a reckoning: continue stockpiling or rethink ownership altogether?
By Stephen Reily
A smiling headshot of Alejo Benedetti superimposed over a photo of an exhibition of sculptures and wallworks by KAWS.

Curator Alejo Benedetti Takes Us Inside KAWS’ Most Comprehensive Survey Yet

In "KAWS: FAMILY" at Crystal Bridges, the artist’s work resonates beyond the usual urban contexts, inviting a broader audience into his world of sincerity, scale and pop culture.
By Dan Duray

The Tug-of-War Over Art Museum Ticket Prices Continues into 2025

By Daniel Grant
Climate activists call on NYC's Museum of Modern Art to drop board chair

The Year in Museums: Political Unrest on One Side and Major Gifts on the Other

By Daniel Grant
This is a portrait photograph of a woman with long, dark hair wearing a dark blue garment with a light blue collar. She has a calm and confident expression, with a slight smile, and the clean white background accentuates her face and upper body.

Indigenous Futurism, Place and Kinship: An Interview with Crystal Bridges’ Jordan Poorman Cocker

By Dan Duray
A collage of photographs of women throughout history

These Are the Women Who Founded Some of New York’s Greatest Art Museums

By Mary Gregory
A long building with many vertical windows seems to rise out of a lake

These Are the World’s Most Visually Stunning Museums

By Christa Terry
A colorful abstract painting that looks like a nebula

One Fine Show: Janet Sobel’s Accessible Abstraction at The Menil Collection

By Dan Duray
Woman with short gray hair wearing floral dress

Walmart Heiress Alice Walton Has Pledged $40M to U.S. Museums

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly

Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin Buys a Copy of the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s

By Helen Holmes

Allison Glenn, the Curator of a New Breonna Taylor Exhibition, On Responsibility in Art

By Helen Holmes
Renderings for the Berkshire Museum redesign, which the institution intends to fund through the deaccessioning of part of their collection.

Should Museums Be Allowed to Sell Donated Works of Art?

By Daniel Grant
BALTIMORE, MD- NOVEMBER 12: "12 Portraits of Remington Residents", 2012, by Gaia is seen in the Contemporary Wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art on Monday November 12, 2012 in Baltimore, MD. The wing includes works by Andy Warhol among other artists. (

With Admission Fees, the Question Is: What Should a Museum Be?

By Daniel Grant
Egon Schiele, Selbstbildnis mit Lampionfrüchten (Self-Portrait with Chinese Lantern Plant), 1912. Oil, opaque color on wood.

12 Must-See Art Museum Exhibitions in 2018

By Margaret Carrigan
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Walmart Family Foundation Gives $120M to Establish Arkansas’ First Art School

By Alanna Martinez
George Washington, (ca. 1795) by Gilbert Stuart.

When Painting George Washington Was a Cottage Industry

By Daniel Grant
Opening of The Met Breuer, Madison Avenue and 75th Street, New York City, March 2016. (The Met Breuer. Photo: Courtesy of Wiki Commons)

10 Museum Exhibitions You’ll Be Talking About This Winter

By Ryan Steadman
LACMA’s new prize: Mrs. Cazalet and Children Edward & Victor (1900-01) by John Singer Sargent. (Photo: Promised gift of Barbra Streisand in honor of the museum’s 50th anniversary)

Barbra Streisand’s Birthday Present to an LA Museum, and Other Big Donor Deals

By Daniel Grant
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Sand Hills in Engadin, (1917-18). (Photo: MoMA)

MoMA Returns Painting to Heirs, Crystal Bridges Buys Record-Setting Artwork, and More

By Alanna Martinez
Americans for the Arts Celebrates Alice Walton, the 2015 National Arts Awards winner for

How One of America’s Top Art Collectors, Alice Walton, Plans to Change the Art World

By Ryan Steadman
Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman Wilson House. (Photo: Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of Art)

Frank Lloyd Wright House Relocated From NJ Will Open in Crystal Bridges, Ark.

By Ryan Steadman
Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932). Estimate $10/15 million, Sold for $44,405,000 at Sotheby's American Art sale on November 20, 2014. (Sotheby’s New York)

World’s Most Expensive Painting by a Woman Goes on Display—in Arkansas

By Alexandra Peers
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "In Bed, the Kiss." (Courtesy Tate Britain)

Art World Abstracts: A Look into the Vast History of Erotic Art, and More!

By Nate Freeman
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