BENTONVILLE, Ark. — The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary have revealed its list of 2024 exhibitions.
The lineup for Crystal Bridges is a variety of mediums, including painting and an immersive light and sound experience, while the Momentary's lineup is photography centric. The exhibits will explore science, art, nature, animals, culture and more.
Scroll below to get a sneak peek at pieces, artists and themes from the upcoming exhibits.
Crystal Bridges 2024 exhibitions:
Exquisite Creatures - March 16 to July 29 - This exhibit is designed to explore the relationship between art and science. "Throughout the exhibition, artist and naturalist Christopher Marley reflects on humanity’s intimate relationship with nature, revealing its intricate beauty and diversity through three-dimensional works comprised of animal, mineral, and plant specimens arranged in precise, geometric compositions," a release from Crystal Bridges said.
Space Makers: Indigenous Expression and a New American Art - April 13 to Sept. 30 - This exhibit "Examines the mid-century American art movement known as the Indian Space Painters and the relationship between those painters, the Indigenous visual and material culture that inspired them, and the artists from the modern Native art movement who expanded upon such creative explorations through their own visual heritage," Crystal Bridges said.
North Forest Outdoor Lights: Klip Collective - Sept. 4 to Jan. 5, 2025 - "Inspired by Crystal Bridges’ sprawling wilderness, the Philadelphia-based Klip Collective will present an immersive nighttime light and sound experience that simultaneously transforms the museum’s North Forest. Guests are invited to meander along the forest paths like never before with awe-inducing installations that cast the woods as a near-magical space of joyful discovery," Crystal Bridges said.
Knowing the West - Sept. 14 to Jan. 27, 2025 - "The first major traveling exhibition to focus on the coexistence of art created between 1785 and 1922 by Native American and non-Native American artists, Knowing the West celebrates the American West as inclusive, complex, and reflective of the diverse peoples who contributed to art and life there," Crystal Bridges said.
Exhibition collaboration with the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese - Oct. 19 to March 31, 2025 - "Crystal Bridges and the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese (ACOM) are partnering to present a new exhibition that focuses on the Marshallese community by infusing a reverence for tradition with an eagerness to celebrate Marshallese Indigenous culture here and now. ACOM will develop and navigate the direction for the show, weaving in objects and stories shared from the community and works created by local artists and makers," Crystal Bridges said.
The Momentary 2024 exhibitions:
Kristine Potter: Dark Waters - May 19 to Oct. 13 - This exhibition features southern gothic artist Kristine Potter. "With this recent collection of seductive and darkly brooding photographs, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic mythos found in the popular imagination of “murder ballads” – traditional songs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that often end in death and despair," the Momentary said.
Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax - May 19 to Oct. 13 - "Encompassing photography, film, painting, sculpture, and installation, Awol Erizku’s work references and reimagines African American and African visual culture, from hip-hop vernacular to iconic symbols from across history, including the Pan-African flag and the image of Nefertiti," the Momentary said.
Best in Show: Pets in Contemporary Photography - Nov. 23 to April 13, 2025 - "Momentary visitors will have the opportunity to explore the role that furry (and feathered) friends have played in culture and how they stand in as representations of status, power, loyalty, compassion and companionship through the perspectives of 25 global artists," the Momentary said.
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