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Focused Forward: Museum celebrates past, envisions expanded future
Museum celebrates past, envisions expanded future
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Jocelyn Murphy
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Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)
The Lantern Bearers
1908
Oil on canvas laid down on board
It s been a phenomenal decade for mid-America s burgeoning American art museum. And just as we ve been looking back, so too has Crystal Bridges. The museum s newest temporary exhibition, Crystal Bridges at 10 opened to the public today, July 11, and celebrates its collection and community. As we approach our 10-year anniversary, there is no better time to reflect on the decade behind us and dream about what s ahead, Public Relations Director Beth Bobbitt said when the exhibition was announced last year.
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Immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrates museum s tenth anniversary
Alice Neel, Hugh Hurd, 1964. Oil on canvas, 40 1/4 × 30 1/4 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas.
BENTONVILLE, ARK
.- On November 11, 2011, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened its doors for the first time. Over the course of a decade, the museum has greeted over five million visitors from around the world to enjoy world-class art, architecture, and nature. This year marks a decade since Crystal Bridges opened, and the museum is recognizing this milestone with a new exhibition celebrating its collection and community.
Crystal Bridges at 10 is an immersive exhibition with 10 distinct art experiences celebrating the museums collection and the local community one decade into the museums lifetime. Primarily drawing from the museums collection, the exhibition features 130+ artworks, presenting crowd favorites in new ways, showcasing works never bef