Curated by Arrangements Abroad
Traveling with you: Jennifer Dasal, Museum Travel Alliance
May 14 - 19, 2024
Experience awe-inspiring art right in America's heartland this May, with exclusive access to Kansas City's internationally acclaimed museums and the much-talked-about Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas.
In Kansas City, go behind the scenes of such renowned art institutions as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with its European masterpieces, and the contemporary wonders at the Kemper Museum. Explore Bentonville, Arkansas, home to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a breathtaking fusion of architecture and art amid an Ozark forest setting. This journey, led by experienced art historian and ArtCurious podcast creator/host Jennifer Dasal, offers intimate views of works by Caravaggio, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andy Warhol, enriching your understanding and appreciation of both global and American art.
Highlights
Discover why the art world is talking about Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, co-founded by Alice Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas, gorgeously designed as a series of glass pavilions surrounded by serene ponds
Revel in a special day-long inside look at Crystal Bridges’s extraordinary American art collection, including masterworks by Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keeffe, Asher B. Durand, and Norman Rockwell
Experience an expert-guided tour of Crystal Bridges’s 120-acre Ozark campus, admiring its outdoor sculptures, a site-specific installation by James Turrell, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House
Enjoy curatorial tours in Kansas City of the encyclopedic collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where you will have a close look at its European masterpieces, including a rare Caravaggio work in the U.S.
Go behind the scenes with a curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, discovering art by Georgia O’Keeffe, Hans Hofmann, Rashid Johnson, and others
Take a private tour of the Moshe Safdie-designed Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, which boasts arches inspired by the rolling plains of Kansas and Missouri (pending confirmation)
Venture to Harry S. Truman’s hometown of Independence, Missouri, for a special inside look at his technologically advanced presidential library, which underwent a recent $29 million renovation
Step back in time on a guided visit to the home of Thomas Hart Benton, noted painter and Missouri native, whose on-site studio has been virtually untouched since his death
