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How Happy I Am to Have Seen This Little Corner of America in a Museum
When it comes to the word “diversity,” what are we really referring to?
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The Mentor and His Protégé: Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones in Arkansas
Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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A Diverse but Directionless Survey of American Art Today
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — The recently minted Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has mounted a prodigious exhibition of contemporary art titled State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now.
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Out with the Old, In with the New: Museum Will Sell Hopper to Buy Contemporary Art
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will sell one of its two oil paintings by artist Edward Hopper and use the money raised to increase acquisitions, particularly of contemporary art.
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America's Newest Art Pilgrimage: Bentonville, Arkansas
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — “Capital isn't scarce; vision is.” This flippant platitude was once uttered by Sam Walton, the founder of the importunately ubiquitous Wal-Mart empire. One wonders what “Mr. Sam” would have to say about that after taking a gander at Bentonville today, the pint-sized hometown of o
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Long-Disputed Stieglitz Collection To Be Unveiled This Fall
Fisk University in Tennessee came up against a tough decision: faced with financial struggles, they saw an opportunity to keep the school afloat by selling their impressive collection of art, including work by Renoir, Picasso, Diego Rivera, and Cézanne. However, all of this work had been given by Ge
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MoMA Yings & Crystal Bridges Yangs
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.
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Fisk University’s Georgia O'Keeffe Collection Goes to Court
The future of Fisk University’s priceless art collection donated years ago by artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and known as The Stieglitz Collection, may be decided at a trial set to begin tomorrow after five years of legal wrangling.