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This past weekend I traveled south to Bentonville, Arkansas to write about the monumental expansion of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art! Ever since I watched the “State of the Art” documentary about one of the museum’s exhibitions in 2019, I have been intent on making the trip out, and so the invitation this Summer by a PR agency in tandem with the museum was quite serendipitous.

Sometimes press trips are solitary excursions, but in this instance, I got to meet and reconnect with great writers and journalists from New York, Chicago, and London! I was also excited to finally meet my artist friend Cindi, to which we embarked on a few adventures through some of the town’s galleries and the Walmart Museum (Walmart is the linchpin of so much in Bentonville and the surrounding areas). 

If you love The Whitney Museum (which is great), then you will love Crystal Bridges … about ten times more considering the expansiveness and diversity of their art collections, programming, and educational initiatives. I’ll have more thoughts to share on that later in my fleshed out piece …

The museum’s satellite location, The Momentary, is also a wonder worth visiting! Lucy Sparrow’s true-to-scale, all-felt replica of a 1980s & 1990s-era Walmart in tandem with an exhibition of San Antonio-based conceptual photographer Chuck Ramirez (1962 - 2010) could easily consume one’s afternoon with the exciting array of works on view that were cogently displayed in a great curatorial framework.

Oh, too much to express and a finite amount of characters to fit in a post! More highlights to follow …

#crystalbridges #crystalbridgesmuseum #bentonville #bentonvillearkansas #artwriter
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