Wal-Mart Heiress’s Art Museum a Moral Blight: Jeffrey Goldberg
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Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The brand-new Crystal Bridges Museumof American Art in the small northwest Arkansas city ofBentonville is the creation of Alice Walton, the daughter of thelate Sam Walton, who founded Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the largestretailer in the world.
Alice Walton, who is worth about $21 billion, has achievedher dream of building a top-tier museum that unabashedlycelebrates American art in the American heartland. CrystalBridges, in many ways, is an aesthetic success.