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The post-pandemic art world in Arkansas courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art OPENING IN JULY: Crystal Bridges celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with the exhibition “Crystal Bridges at 10,” featuring more than 140 works, including Deborah Roberts’ mixed media on panel “He Looks Like Me.” What the immediate future holds for our museum-going life is still a bit murky, thanks to the unknowns of the pandemic. But what is certain is that big things are on the post-pandemic horizon, with a spruced-up and expanded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts coming in 2022 and a 100,000-square-foot expansion at Crystal Bridges Museum of Fine Art in 2024. ....
Please Donate The plan to have the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 at Lake Merced. The Lake Merced Fair that Could Have Been by Woody LaBounty (Adapted from article published in Outside Lands magazine, Jan-Mar 2015, and is put online with support from the Schwemm Family Foundation.) Map of Merced Park, proposed site for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915., 1915 - Designed by J. E. Pope, Civil Engineer In 1915, San Francisco celebrated the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), the fair that remade a swampy area called Harbor View into a wonderland of exhibit halls, courts, plazas, technology showcases, a “Joy Zone,” and a Tower of Jewels centerpiece. ....
other than sweatpants right now. A lot, then, is riding on the 93rd Academy Awards, set to take place in person this Sunday in Los Angeles. Though it’s slated to be the smallest ceremony in memory (nominees only, plus one guest), it’s also set to be one of the most complicated, between strict COVID-19 protocols and a broadcast incorporating multiple “hubs” worldwide. But architect and Tony Award–winning set designer David Rockwell has devised a set that promises to allow the proceedings to go off without a hitch and to be less snoozy for those watching at home and he was given an entire train station to do it. ....
Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and the beautiful Holiday. Artists include Maxfield Parrish, Howard Chandler Christie, Charles Dana Gibson and even Alberto Vargas. The first American magazines appeared in 1741. By 1860 there were over a thousand titles in print, ballyhooing and cajoling Americans to repent, reform, learn, expand, and do everything faster and faster. The amazing energy of the United States is all here – educationalism, advertising, news, religion and quite a lot of hooey. As is pointed out in the excellent catalogue, magazines built American communities, and fashioned their mores and prejudices. The deadly serious early journals have a grand, reserved, essentially European look: mournful engraved figures adorn their covers, as if weighed down by the awful information inside. ....
Close aerial of Crystal Bridges looking north. Courtesy of Safdie Architects. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is marking its tenth birthday with a major growth spurt. The museum in Bentonville, Arkansas a small city best known as the home of Walmart’s headquarters has announced it will build an architectural expansion to increase its footprint by 50 percent. The project will be overseen by Safdie Architects, which also designed the museum’s original facility. It will add nearly 100,000 square feet to the museum’s 200,000-square-foot campus, increase gallery space by 65 percent, add educational spaces, a dedicated floor for community gathering, a circular event plaza, and a new windowed bridge to showcase art that is not light sensitive. ....