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Bentonville - Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is one year old today, and it's been a year marked with success above and beyond expectations.

Fayetteville - Walton, who is the youngest child of Helen and Sam Walton, received an Honorary Degree of Arts and Humane Letters during the Spring Commencement and was a keynote speaker at the ceremony.

Fayetteville - Murie was the oldest graduate at the University of Arkansas' Commencement where he received a Master of Arts in Spanish at the age of 88, and he has more goals in mind.

Bentonville - For those wondering what's new at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision exhibition is now open, which features landscape paintings by masters like Durand, Bierstadt, and Cole, and that's not all.

Bentonville - Travel + Leisure Magazine released its list of the twelve "Hottest Travel Destinations of 2012," and Bentonville is the only spot in America to make the list largely due to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Bentonville - Hailed as the nation's most important new art museum in a generation and filled with one of the world's best collections of American art, Crystal Bridges will officially open to the public on 11-11-11, but a members-only preview began Wednesday.