What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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AUGUST 11-17, 2019 WHAT'S UP! 9 "Thomas' sculpture — created in the same year — visually aligns itself with this movement and slogan. In actuality, the message is much broader, and viewers should come away from this exhibition with a keen understanding of the nuance of Thomas' practice, the critical theory that he is employing, and the larger global issues that he is tackling within his work." Later in February, while Thomas' work is still on display at Crystal Bridges, the Momentary's debut exhibition also connects the past and the present as "State of the Art II" opens at both locations on Feb. 22. "It was a really fantastic exhibition for the institution, but also for our visitors. It just really allowed this idea of art being made now to be seen in such an expansive way that the idea to do a second iteration was a bit of a no-brainer," Haynes says of Crystal Bridges' 2014 internally organized project "State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now." "For the first 'State of the Art,' so much of the work that product was doing was proving this premise that art, and important art, and interesting art, is made all across this country, not just in the centers of New York and L.A. And now we're able to take some of what we were seeing and think about what are these ideas and how are they pulling themselves into themes and into a way that is going to make it a cohesive exhibition across the two spaces." Summer of 2020 will host the work of iconic American landscape photographer Ansel Adams alongside contemporary works also focused on nature. "For us, that really hits on our idea of how do we talk about nature in the setting that we're in and how it's so present?" Haynes muses. "To actually have that be in the galleries is something that we've also gotten really good at and has been an important part of our exhibition programs." Something people often ask, Haynes says of the next exhibition, is when will the museum do more American history/historical projects. "Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere" is the curatorial team's answer to that question, while also maintaining work that "feels like it fits in and is part of our ongoing conversations that we're having in our gallery," she shares. The exhibition was developed by the American Antiquarian Society and will bring more than 80 objects — including Revere's original engravings of historical events — to Crystal Bridges on the nation's 244th birthday, July 4, 2020. See Crystal Bridges Page 10 Photo courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum "State of the Art II" curators (from left) Allison Glenn, Lauren Haynes and Alejo Benedetti pause at the Momentary. Photo courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming," Ansel Adams, 1942. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Lane Collection. Copyright The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Photo courtesy MASS MoCA "Nick Cave: Until" was organized by MASS MoCA and co-produced by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville and CarriageWorks of Sydney, Australia.