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# MoMA Yings & Crystal Bridges Yangs
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/museum-admission-prices/
- Published: 2011-07-29T11:30:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:02:41.000Z
- Description: Are American art institutions engaged in a Manichean battle between exclusivity and access? Will this be settled with a mud wrestling match between Crystal Bridges benefactor Alice Walton and MoMA director Glenn Lowry? Please, oh please, say it will be.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Crystal Bridges Museum, MoMA, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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New York’s MoMA does [this](http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/07/moma-admission-going-to-25/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas does [that](http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9OOTVGO0.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com).

So, what exactly is going on in the art world? Are American art institutions engaged in a Manichean battle between exclusivity and access? Will this all be settled with a mud wrestling match between Crystal Bridges benefactor Alice Walton and MoMA director Glenn Lowry? Can we, in the name of Allah, have that battle royale of museum heavies livestreamed, pretty pretty please?