![Jesus, even Currier and Ives got in on the act...](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130121001156im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Currier-ives-arkansas-traveller-150x150.jpg)
Crystal Bridges: Don Bacigalupi, Art, Arkansas, Populism and Wal Mart
When art people ask, “Where did you grow up?” and I answer, “Arkansas,” there is, invariably, an awkward pause. It is usually followed by “Oh.” or “Oh. Really?” and occasionally, “Well, um, I hear it’s really pretty there.” East coasters are the worst. It’s like they asked what your father does and you said, “He’s [...]
![Bible Belt Bauble Highlights Art World Inequities, Guardian Calls for Revolution!](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130121001156im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/abramovic-human-centerpiece-150x150.png)
Bible Belt Bauble Highlights Art World Inequities, Guardian Calls for Revolution!
The Guardian (UK) is taking an interest in the new Crystal Bridges Museum, focusing on the controversy surrounding the perceived inequities in Walmart heir Alice Walton’s $1.4 billion bible-belt bauble and the ever-declining benefits offered Wal-Mart employees. Said Ben Waxman, spokesman for the union-affiliated Making Change@Walmart,”Opening a huge, opulent museum in the middle of nowhere [...]
![The Wal-Mart Association Choir performs at the opening festivities](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130121001156im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/walmart-choir-150x150.jpg)
The Robinson Report: Wal-Mart Museum of Art Grand Opening
Gaile Robinson, art critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, made the trek to the new Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and turned in a detailed report on Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton’s ambitious project, which opened Friday. Influenced and partly in collaboration with Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum and its founder, Ruth Carter [...]
Some Texas collectors make ArtNews’ top 200, mostly in Dallas/Fort Worth
Intrepid ARTnews correspondents in 22 countries interviewed dealers, auctioneers, and other collectors to compile their 21st annual list of the most active art collectors, and a handful of Texans are rubbing shoulders with the rich and super-rich of the rest of the world. Most Texans on the list congregate in DFW, a couple in Houston, [...]