Wal-Mart Heiress and Founder of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Alice Walton, Gets a New Yorker Profile

The eagerly anticipated opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will finally happen this November. While of course there’s lots of interest in the art itself, and the massive Moshe Safdie-designed complex it will all be stored in, there’s perhaps even more interest in a) what this multi-million dollar museum, which most people first heard about due to its role in the Fisk University controversy, is doing all the way out in Bentonville, Arkansas (you’ll recall it just