“When Crystal Bridges Museum of Art opened in 2011 Bentonville, Arkansas was perhaps the most implausible location for a major art museum in the United States. That is emphatically no longer the case.”

— Anthony Paletta

In About, architecture critic Anthony Paletta visits the newly expanded Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, tracing how Safdie Architects has extended the museum’s original pavilions into a larger landscape of galleries, learning spaces, water, and public life.

The piece highlights how the expansion brings visitors closer to the museum’s natural setting, adding new galleries, education spaces, outdoor gathering areas, trails, and a more open relationship between art, architecture, and the surrounding landscape.

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