I know we have discussed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to some extent here, but just thought I'd pass along that I went to the job fair they had September 1st. About 600-800 people turned out for maybe 40 jobs that are still open. The museum opens 11-11-11 at Bentonville, AR.
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Check out their website! This is a museum on par with anything you could find in LA, Chi Town, and NYC.
Opps! Website at: www.crystalbridges.org ;D
TODAY IS 11-11-11! The museum opened today with much fanfare. Alice Walton (one of the richest women in the world/Wal-Mart heir) opened her museum...a big Veterans Day event was held on the Bentonville, AR town square, and the doors at the museum swung open. Bill Clinton gave a welcoming speech via a TV hook up. It was a big day for Arkansas. I cannot tell you how wonderful this museum is...it is on par with world class art museums and is only about two hours south and west of Branson. YOU REALLY NEED TO PLAN A VISIT...the museum has American art from the 1700s to present. Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, and Thomas Hart Benton works, and many, many others! If you have visited the good museums in KC or St. L, OK City or Tulsa or Wichita, you need to come see something better than those...and they are very good. Go to the museum Website link above for an on line look at what awaits you! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I cannot wait. As an artist, and a former art teacher, I am ecstatic just to have this so close!
It's really nice to get something so awesome for the area! Many areas of Arkansas are not known for artistic, and culture exposure, and this will so greatly aid in that effort. ;D
that's great! and could easily be worked into a branson trip! will have to check it out. Sounds like a jan-feb trip! ;D
This will definitely be a must-see on our next trip to/through NWA.
My late mother-in-law was an artist with a great sense of humor. My lovely bride doesn't have the artistic ability, but she has the sense of humor and the love of art. Crystal Bridges would take up our whole day, and we wouldn't mind a bit.
I will have to con my family into going for christmas.....my dad lives not to far from there so maybe just maybe I can get the public phobe husband off the couch for THIS!!! ugh.
Since opening 11/11/11, the museum has hosted over 50,000 guests! Tickets to get in are booked solid until the second week of January! This museum is a "MUST SEE!" I hope you do come by and see it...it will be worth your time!
50,000 guest in just a couple of weeks is quite impressive! :o I look forward to more great things to come from this museum, and more artistic diversity from the region.
Hey yall I have 5 tickets for Christmas Eve @ 330 and will not be able to attend as planned. They are up for grabs! PM me if you are interested
Oh if only...
Next Spring.............
Saw in yesterday's newspaper that over 70,000 have visited the museum since it opened. The initial rush to get in to see the place has slowed, so you won't need the free tickets to get in after January 1. The museum staff is offerering special tours limited to 15 people in a group. The speciality tours explore different topics, like, "women in American art," or "Colonial Period American art," and so on. Again, I cannot stress enough how fabulous this museum and the gardens and grounds are! SDC is closed in Jan and Feb, so plan a visit to Bentonville, AR soon to see this outstanding museum!
There was a review of the museum in the New York Times two or tree days ago and they seemed very positive overall.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/arts/design/crystal-bridges-the-art-museum-walmart-money-built-review.html
Thanks for posting the review!
My wife and I made our first trip to the museum today (1-7-12) IT IS FANTASTIC! World class art, a building by a world class architect, gift shop designed by another world class architect, and all in a natural beautiful setting. I took many photos, and after I get a problem worked out with my computer, will upload some of them to my Flickr account for all to enjoy. I do want to say if you can get to Bentonville, AR to see this museum you need to do so. Admission is free, and if you have not been to this corner of the state you will find it offers many things to see and do, with museums, shopping, entertainment, arts, and restaurants. So make a weekend trip or at least a day trip to this area, and enjoy your day with your family or friends.
Thanks for the posting. Sounds like a must see at the great rate of free. Looks like I'll want to make a side trip next time I'm in the area.
Check out the Flickr site for a couple dozen shots of Crystal Bridges. My wife and I made a visit there last weekend. The buildings are a work of art. They are filled with works of art. Really, an artfully good time can be had. I strongly encourage you to visit with your family. Click on the photos to enlarge them and get a better view of the art and the building details. Enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/juniordugan
Some friends from NWA were just talking about how great the walking trails there are.
Adjacent to Crystal Bridges is Compton Gardens. Neil Compton is the guy who fought to save the Buffalo River from being dammed and developed, and the river became the first national river park. Anyway, the walking trails snake through both Crystal Bridges and Compton Gardens, pretty flowers and other fauna, and sculptures from the Crystal Bridges collection dot the trails and landscape. Wooded areas, fields, very, very, nice. In fact, Bentonville, Rogers, Bella Vista, Springdale and Fayetteville have been working the last few years on a walking trail system. It runs all the way from Bella Vista through Fayetteville. That's a 45 minute drive in a car, that means you can walk the city trails system for days or weeks, going on different pathways. It is one of the best developed walking trail systems in this region of the country. Plus, there is a billion dollar art museum along the path, so come on over and visit us here, ya'll! :)
Junior, how far is it from Branson?
Only about an hour and a half to two hours, depending on traffic. Just to the south and west of Branson. If you leave from Branson and go north to Springfield, travel the interstate to Joplin, and then go directly south to Bentonville, it will take longer, but you will find straight roads, and it's the easiest way for me to explain a route here. You can also travel on West Highway 76 from Branson West to Reeds Spring, then to Cape Fair, then to Cassville, (Going through beautiful scenery in Mark Twain National Forest and Roaring River State Park) then travel west to Seligman, Mo, then south to Gateway, AR then to Garfield, AR, then to Pea Ridge, AR then to Bentonville to Crystal Bridges. Sounds more complicated, right? Anyway, get a map or google a route here, and come on down and see this wonderful museum.
Thanks, Junior. I will be checking that out this summer - maybe more than once. A friend of mine (who dislikes Branson) asked me one day if I have been to this museum. She wants to take a trip to see it. My husband and I checked it out on line after the friend mentioned it. We definitely want to go.
Just for fun, I've posted over a dozen more photos of some of the artwork at Crystal Bridges on the Flickr site listed above. Hope you enjoy. :)
I went on December 29th. It appeared that even though tickets were still mandatory, it was the last wain for anyone holding tickets and they were filling in space with anyone who wanted to come in and see it.
I was blown away! I love that all the art is American art and it shows you how rich and diverse our artistic heritage is. I certainly expected a lot of the Charles Russell and Thomas Hart Benton style art, but whoa....their Post Modern and 20th Century collection is incredible.
I took some photos as well and they can be seen at the link below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skinnytie/sets/72157628673660779/
Excellent photos BetaMike. It is a special place. Again, I strongly encourage all to come visit.
I'm going to brag a bit. Those trails are the responsibility of childhood friend of mine. He's come a long way from maintaining the little league fields in Marked Tree 8)
Your friend has done a good job. They are popular walking trails. The sculpture along them is wonderful. There is something new to see along the pathways each season. Summer and Fall are wonderful times to walk them.
Quote from: Junior on January 25, 2012, 05:17:46 PM
Your friend has done a good job. They are popular walking trails. The sculpture along them is wonderful. There is something new to see along the pathways each season. Summer and Fall are wonderful times to walk them.
I was mad when he left Fayetteville's parks department.
Crystal Bridges has a new special exhibit that features the Hudson River School art of the 19th century. My wife and I went to see it with our grand daughter recently, and this is a great exhibit. Cost to get in to Crystal Bridges is FREE, the special exhibit is only $5 per head. Well worth a trip to Bentonville. Again, I stress that when you have a couple of days to see Branson, spend part of the day a couple of hours south here in NW Arkansas and see Crystal Bridges...seriously, you would have to travel to LA, NYC, or Chi-town to see a collection of art as great as this.
Crystal Bridges now has a Norman Rockwell exhibit for a month or two. I'd highly reccomend it to you. There is a small cost, maybe $15 to get in, but it is worth it, friends.
Just saw the Norman Rockwell exhibit at Crystal Bridges today. FANTASTIC! Seeing such classic paintings as "The Four Freedoms" and seeing his portraits of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Bing Crosby, Ann Margaret, and Slim Pickens was great. All of the over 300 covers from the Saturday Evening Post were on display, as well as correspondence, study drawings, rough sketches of famous works, Santa Claus works for Hallmark Cards, just great! Also they have permanent collection items at the museum that have been moved around, with several works that previously were in storage out and on display. So if you have not been to the museum, come on down to Bentonville...it is worth the trip, folks!
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Just saw the Norman Rockwell exhibit at Crystal Bridges today. FANTASTIC! Seeing such classic paintings as "The Four Freedoms" and seeing his portraits of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Bing Crosby, Ann Margaret, and Slim Pickens was great. All of the over 300 covers from the Saturday Evening Post were on display, as well as correspondence, study drawings, rough sketches of famous works, Santa Claus works for Hallmark Cards, just great! Also they have permanent collection items at the museum that have been moved around, with several works that previously were in storage out and on display. So if you have not been to the museum, come on down to Bentonville...it is worth the trip, folks!
Folks, it can not be understated the treasure that Crystal Bridges is for NWA. This is a top shelf facility and will only grow in prestige.
They currently have an exhibit that is on display that aren't permanent but are part of a share program with other museums like The Louvre in Paris:
LOUVRE, HIGH, CRYSTAL BRIDGES AND TERRA FOUNDATION ANNOUNCE SECOND INSTALLATION IN MULTI-YEAR AMERICAN ART COLLABORATION
"American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life" will Focus on 19th Century American Genre Painting and its European Predecessors
Installation Brings Together Paintings from all Four Institutions to Broaden the Dialogue about American Art
November 12, 2012 - The musée du Louvre, the High Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art have announced the second installation in their four-year collaboration focusing on the history of American art. Opening at the Louvre on Jan. 19, 2013, "American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life" provides a close look at three major genre paintings, each of which offers a unique perspective on 19th century America. Two additional works from the collections at the Louvre exemplify American genre painting's European sources. Following its presentation at the Louvre (Jan. 19–Apr. 22, 2013), the installation will travel to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR (May 11– Aug. 12, 2013), and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA (Sept. 14, 2013–Jan.14, 2014).
American genre painting, or scenes of everyday life, flourished during the first half of the 19th century, when the young nation sought images and narratives to define and bolster its developing identity. Portraying the lives of everyday Americans, genre painting often served as a vehicle for expressions of cultural nationalism. Three paintings in the installation will provide examples of American genre painting: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait's "The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix" (1856) from Crystal Bridges, Eastman Johnson's "Negro Life at the South" (c.1870) from the High, and George Caleb Bingham's "The Jolly Flatboatmen" (1877–78) from the Terra Foundation. These works will be accompanied by two paintings from the Louvre: Jan Steen's "Festive Family Meal" (1674) and William Mulready's "Train Up a Child" (1841/1853), representative of the seventeenth-century Dutch and mid-nineteenth-century English schools that greatly influenced genre painters in the United States.
"The true value of this international collaboration is becoming increasingly evident as we open the second of four focused installations planned for the coming years," said Peter John Brownlee, associate curator, Terra Foundation for American Art. "The ongoing nature of the partnership not only enables us to present great American paintings alongside their European predecessors. It enables a more fluid and more sustained dialogue about American art and its influences on a global stage. Following the success of the first installation of American landscape painting, we are excited to continue this object-based exchange through a series of focused presentations accompanied by educational programs and publications."
"The Louvre visitors are familiarizing themselves with American painting and have shown great interest since our first exhibition around Thomas Cole and landscape painting," said Guillaume Faroult, curator, Paintings department, musée du Louvre. "For many of them, the discovery of this artist and the Hudson River School exhibited at the Louvre for the first time was a complete revelation. This second installation around American painting is now anticipated by our public. The focus on American genre painting will be the opportunity to also highlight some of our recent acquisitions including a recovered painting by American artist Emmanuel Leutze, donated to the museum by the American Friends of the Louvre, and another one by Charles Robert Leslie from the Forbes collection."
Recent article states that CB is smashing their attendance projections with 600,000 in the first year and second is on pace with that. More people took in the Rockwell exhibit than any other city that has hosted it and even the home museum from where it's based.
Great news for the museum! This is one to see, folks!
After a very long "we hate Walmart" rooted battle with the State of Tennessee, it will rotate back and forth between Btown and Nashville. 5 bucks admission to see this but General Admission still free:
November 9, 2013 through February 3, 2014
In 1949 Georgia O'Keeffe donated 101 works of art, ranging from African masks to Modernist paintings, to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the objects had been collected by O'Keeffe's late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer, gallery owner, and tireless champion of American Modernists, including O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin, among many others. The Artists' Eye: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Alfred Stieglitz Collection celebrates a partnership between Fisk University and Crystal Bridges that allows this important collection to be shared between Nashville and Bentonville.
I'm looking forward to seeing the O'Keefe stuff, many of her spouse's photos on display, too. Again, I cannot stress it enough...this is a museum to see, folks. If you head to Branson, make plans to spend half a day down here in NW Arkansas. Plan ahead, there really is much to do in our area.
I was watching some scripted network tv show over the weekend and they mentioned Crystal Bridges in a short list of museums, but for the life of me now I can't remember what show!
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Two Andy Warhol artworks soon will be available for viewing at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1dVGavj ) that the works will be available for viewing on Thursday at the museum in Bentonville.
The newspaper says the works include the third in a series of four Coca-Cola works that debuted at Warhol's first pop-art exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York in 1962.
Crystal Bridges founder and Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton bought the painting last month during an auction at Christie's in New York.
The other Warhol piece portrays a slumbering woman and man enveloped in bedding. Warhol created that work when he was a student in Pittsburgh.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/20/3829198/2-andy-warhol-works-go-to-crystal.html#storylink=cpy
Just another good reason to visit the museum. Be sure to stop by the 21C Hotel in downtown Bentonville, too. Walk through the first floor hallways and galleries for a giant kick of very modern, very unusual art by contemporary artists.
I guess they are going to start a famous American architect collection and considering the many E fay Jones houses around the area, why not the man he studied under:
http://www.fayettevilleflyer.com/2014/01/15/crystal-bridges-bought-a-frank-lloyd-wright-house-and-plans-to-move-it-from-new-jersey-to-arkansas/
Yeah, just saw that online somewhere. Fab! Wright inspired a leading NW Arkansas architect by the name of E. Fay Jones, and many examples of his work are scattered throughout the area and the country. See Thorncrown Chapel at Eureka Springs or Cooper Chapel at Bella Vista. A talented man named Maurice Jennings runs Jones' old firm in Fayetteville today.
I'm not sure how I feel about the Bachman Wilson house being moved... Yes it IS the same house, but it is not in the same place with the same site that was originally chosen by Wright.. I think the integrity is compromised, but the house is protected from flooding... Catch 22!
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I'm not sure how I feel about the Bachman Wilson house being moved... Yes it IS the same house, but it is not in the same place with the same site that was originally chosen by Wright.. I think the integrity is compromised, but the house is protected from flooding... Catch 22!
I've got a sneaky feeling about where they are going to put it and it'll by along a creek as well. Apparently this isn't going to be a open every day thing but just for limited things. It appears it's going to be in partnership with U of A's Jones School of Architecture. A damn fine School at that. Fayetteville's latest, greatest is Marlon Blackwell and I just don't like his stuff and the new high school that he designed I just hate the material used and his addition to Vol Walker Hall revolts me.
Here's the house to be relocated
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In another Bentonville tidbit, Walmart is doing a mix use development with a Neighborhood Market as part of it. Walmart is honing it's urban design skills.
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Here's today's ADG article on it:
Museum gaining historic house
Crystal Bridges to move home from N.J. to Bentonville
CYD KING
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
BENTONVILLE — Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is adding a rare, mid-1950s Frank Lloyd Wright house to its collection. Disassembling and moving the structure from where it is situated along the Millstone River in New Jersey and putting it back together on a site with a similar view on the museum's 120-acre grounds will take roughly 15 months to complete.
The move is a last-ditch effort at preserving the structure and would not otherwise be considered an option, said Janet Halstead, executive director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, a Chicago-based international organization dedicated to preserving Wright's remaining buildings and facilitating transfers of Wright's properties. The Millstone River has gradually encroached on the 2,800-square-foot home over the past two decades, causing extensive damage.
"Only as a last resort would the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy consider moving a house from its original site," Halstead said.
The previous owners and caretakers, the architect/designer team of Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino, spent years looking for a buyer, including listing it on the conservancy's website. Diane Carroll, media relations manager for Crystal Bridges, said the two parties came together as a result of "being in the same community of talking art and architecture.
"It was just a fortuitous meeting where we learned of their need to sell and relocate the house, and as they learned more about Crystal Bridges, they realized we could work together well and be a good pair," she said.
Carroll did not disclose the purchase price, saying only that the cost of disassembling the house is included in the acquisition arrangement between the couple and the museum.
"I don't have any dollar amounts to share," she said.
The Tarantinos will take on the painstaking work of deconstructing the house later this month, and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. has offered to truck it in parts to Bentonville at no cost. The Tarantinos are experts at this type of work, receiving awards for the preservation of their house as well as other Usonian-style homes from the American Institute of Architects and the conservancy, according to a news release from the museum on Wednesday.
The conservancy's Halstead said the organization has a high level of confidence in the Tarantinos' ability to move the Bachman Wilson House.
"They've been such wonderful stewards of this home," she said. "They rescued a house that was not in great shape and made it beautiful again, putting a lot of time, effort and money into doing that." At least some of the work was done using Wright's original drawings. All furnishings were restored and rebuilt with 1950s upholstery fabrics matching the house and the period.
"I know this was a difficult decision for them," Halstead added. The pair bought the house in 1988 and lived there for about 20 years. "We know the deconstruction will be done with meticulous care, and they'll be involved in the reconstruction, as well."
Wright developed the Usonian house type during the Great Depression as a prefabricated, affordable prototype for Americans of all socio-economic classes, said Dale Allen Gyure, a board member for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and a professor of architecture at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich.
"Wright spent the last two decades of his life designing variations of the Usonian and promoting its virtues, including simple materials, easy construction, combined living-dining areas, and efficient kitchens — all ideas which entered the mainstream of the American housing market," Gyure said. "The Bachman Wilson House is one of the few Usonians with more than one story, containing two bedrooms on a mezzanine overlooking the living room and leading to an outdoor balcony."
Ethel Goodstein-Murphree, interim dean of the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture, said the context for [Usonian-style homes] remain of monumental importance today.
"The ideas that are embedded in the Bachman Wilson House speak to Wright's earliest and all too often-forgotten work," she said.
"The catchword here that is so significant for us is 'affordable,'" she added. "His notion of how we should live was an affordable home in harmony with nature for all people."
The house, located in the Borough of Millstone in Somerset County, N.J., could also be described as an open two-story pavilion. A stepped concrete base supports glass walls. Horizontal and vertical planes form unique spaces both inside and out, dissolving the physical boundary of the enclosure with natural surroundings.
Americans have had a tendency in recent decades to build and live in homes "far bigger than any one individual should be living in on a dayto-day basis," Goodstein-Murphree said. "We forget how much the temperance of Wright's aesthetic was about defining an American lifestyle — a good American lifestyle — one that speaks to so many of our contemporary concerns, such as sustainability of every kind."
Husband and wife Abraham Wilson and Gloria Bachman commissioned Wright to design the home, which was completed in 1954. At the time, Bachman's brother, Marvin Bachman, was an apprentice in the Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin Fellowship and Wright was working on the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
At Crystal Bridges, the house will likely be erected above Crystal Spring, the natural spring from which the museum takes its name. It will be a short distance from the museum's art trail, which is accessible from the south lobby. It will have a view similar to where the house is now with woods and a view to water.
Once installed, the house will be made available for study, limited programming and tours. Crystal Bridges' educational and public program offerings include an architectural focus that will be enhanced through the addition of the Bachman Wilson House to Crystal Bridges' grounds. Through an ongoing partnership with the UA, the museum is expected to develop additional educational programs specifically related to UA's architecture school.
The late architect Fay Jones, an Arkansas native, met Wright, in 1949. Wright became a mentor and Jones was later an apprentice at Taliesin East and a member of the Taliesin Fellowship, Goodstein-Murphree said.
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Here's today's ADG article on it:
Museum gaining historic house
Crystal Bridges to move home from N.J. to Bentonville
CYD KING
ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Cyd and I were fellow journalism students at Arkansas Tech. We're Facebook friends, so I heard about this move from her link to the article. :)
As for the UA school of architecture, there are two kinds of schools: design schools, and engineering schools. UA is a design school; Texas A&M is an engineering school. As someone who seriously wanted to become an architect, I looked at both routes, and I definitely prefer the engineering route.
Design architects draw a pretty building, then turn to engineers and say, "Build something to support this." The end result is often not very functional.
Engineering architects design from the inside out; if they have style skills, or consult with a designer, the outside will be as pretty as the inside is functional.
FLW built his reputation on designing the inside space, then the structure to support it. Towards the end of his career, he drifted a bit too heavily towards design, insisting that people had to adapt to his buildings rather than the other way around.
As much as I love his work artistically, I would never want to live in one of his houses. Ironically, his most functional industrial building (Johnson Wax) is butt ugly on the outside, but a brilliant bit of beautiful inside space.
FLW had a problem with flat roofs...they leaked a lot. Had a problem with the Johnson Building with the curved glass blocks, they leaked, too! His buildings are great to look at. I consider E. Fay Jones his "son," and Maurice Jennings his "grandson," because of their designs. That perhaps for some is a bit too strong...Jones was a student. Jennings is the current owner/operator of the Jones firm.
My son has one of these shirts. ;D
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I just looked at the Wal-Mart version of a revamped Harps Food Store and parking lot on page 3 of this thread. WOW! The folks at Wal-Mart just didn't think it was right to have a Harps Food Store just off the Bentonville square instead of a Wal-Mart, so they bought the block, tore out the old strip mall...and, well, you can see the picture! It's going to be great. I can hardly wait until it is done. They are working on it now. I only am sorry to see the old parking lot go, because that is where my wife and I would park to go across the street and eat occasionally at Flying Fish, a great little Gulf Coast Seafood themed place...wonderful food. I think the new plans are for a parking garage, which is also needed in downtown Bentonville.
Quote from: Junior on February 03, 2014, 03:43:01 PM
I just looked at the Wal-Mart version of a revamped Harps Food Store and parking lot on page 3 of this thread. WOW! The folks at Wal-Mart just didn't think it was right to have a Harps Food Store just off the Bentonville square instead of a Wal-Mart, so they bought the block, tore out the old strip mall...and, well, you can see the picture! It's going to be great. I can hardly wait until it is done. They are working on it now. I only am sorry to see the old parking lot go, because that is where my wife and I would park to go across the street and eat occasionally at Flying Fish, a great little Gulf Coast Seafood themed place...wonderful food. I think the new plans are for a parking garage, which is also needed in downtown Bentonville.
The mixed use development will have a parking deck. . My only complaint was the nieghborhood market is still basically a stand alone with nothing above like the other part of the developement. I'll track down the renderings tonight. When WalMart had it's little battle in Springfield earlier I thought about why they weren't trying pull this off there as well as this project has been known about for a couple of years now. Walmart has several mixed used urban designs out there now.
Here you go Junior, the NM is a single level with exaggerated facades
They are developing a long range plan for different districts. Here's a link for that
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/30995#.UvV0RZWYbwp
Walton's own what was the fairgrounds.
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Ah, thanks...very interesting. It will be fun to watch this go up in Bentonville.
Another Downtown B-Ville project
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Things are cooking in NW Arkansas. Really, folks...when you plan that Branson vacation, you need to plan a few more days, then make a side trip down this way. Many, many things to see and do. ;D
Just wanted to let everyone know that Alice Walton won Tourism Person of the Year at the 40th Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism. The conference was put on by my agency: Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. This year it was held in Rogers at the Embassy Suites. She gave a wonderful speach about NW Arkansas, her love for the state, and Crystal Bridges. She was very personable and down to earth. Very proud of the work she has done for our state, and I feel she much deserved the award.
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Just wanted to let everyone know that Alice Walton won Tourism Person of the Year at the 40th Annual Governor's Conference on Tourism. The conference was put on by my agency: Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism. This year it was held in Rogers at the Embassy Suites. She gave a wonderful speach about NW Arkansas, her love for the state, and Crystal Bridges. She was very personable and down to earth. Very proud of the work she has done for our state, and I feel she much deserved the award.
She tell you about her incident back in the 90's that prompted her to spend most of her time at her spread in the Metroplex? A night of wine drinking in downtown Fayetteville led her to taking out a culvert on Wagon Wheel in Springdale later on. Witnesses at the hospital noted her yelling to the Trooper requesting a blood test, "Do you know who I am." Needless to say, she got off, much like she did recently down in Texas for pretty much the same thing. Zebra, Stripes, and I know, Cool Story Bro. Alice and some of Bud's crew(Laurie Clan) are a little haughty. Most of the others operate in Sam mode.
Alice has a history...I saw her brother, the one that runs Arvest, at a Bentonville BBQ about a year ago. He and his wife, chowing down on ribs, just like anyone else. He was friendly and gave me a smile when I looked their way.
The art is superb, however, I like the buildings and site which are totally awesome. The l wood beams made from native timber are well done. The thought processes put into the landscaping are very well executed.
Via Fayetteville Flyer:
A painting by Pablo Picasso is one of several new pieces of artwork that will be on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art beginning in late April.
Picasso's Seated Woman in a Chemise is on loan from the Tate Modern in London and can be viewed from April 29 through July 2017, according to a news release. Belgian artist Rene Magritte's L'Anniversaire will be available later this fall. Both works will be showcased as part of a reinstallation of Modernist works.
"These very special loans offer a wonderful opportunity for visitors to view works by American Modernists side-by-side with masters of the European avant-garde who had great influence in America," said Margi Conrads, director of curatorial affairs for Crystal Bridges.
Crystal Bridges also loans works of art from its permanent collection to museums around the world. Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1, will be on loan to Tate Modern as part of a major retrospective of O'Keeffe's work this year.
Philip Haas's The Four Seasons sculptures, on loan from Sonnabend Gallery in New York, will be on display along the Orchard Trail and in the museum's courtyard through September 2016. The work is a series of monumental fiberglass heads inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo's four 1563 Italian Renaissance paintings: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Smaller, three-foot high sculptures of The Four Seasons, will be located inside the museum's Bridge Gallery.
Haas will be at the museum from 1-2 p.m. Friday, April 29 for an outdoor conversation about his work. The event is free, and no registration is required.
In addition, five pieces have been added to the "Black Unity" exhibit, which includes artwork created over the past five decades by black artists in an array of media, including photography, sculpture, painting, and tapestry.
From the release:
Rooted in the personal experiences and reflections of each artist, the works explore family, historical figures and events, and cultural touchstones that resonate within the African American community. Ultimately, the unique voices of these artists come together to tell a story that transcends color and creed and unites viewers under a shared American experience.
"Black Unity" can be viewed from May 4 until Sept. 5.