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American art museums; Ahinterland beauty 美国艺术博物馆; 腹地美景; Moshe Safdie and some intelligent curatorial workhave produced a rural gem; 摩西萨夫迪和一些聪明的策展工作创造了一个田园珍品; The Ozarks are America s least appreciatedmountain range. Lacking the majesty of theRockies, the breadth of the Appalachians or themournful grandeur of the Cascades, there they sit,somewhere in the middle of the country, south of the Midwest, north of the south, east of themountainous west. They have long drawn fishermen and hikers; until now, however, artfanciers have had little reason to visit. 欧扎克斯是美国受到赞赏最少的山脉，缺乏落基山脉的威严、阿巴拉契亚山脉的广袤以及喀斯咯特山脉的悲壮，它们坐落在那里，坐落在美国中部的某个地方，在中西部以南、南部以北、西部山区以东。长期以来，它们吸引着渔民和远足者，然而现在，艺术爱好者也有足够的理由光顾了。 That changes with the opening of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art on November11th. With 120 acres of forests and gardens and long hiking trails connectingit with downtown Bentonville, Crystal Bridges is not just in but also of the Ozarks. Its patron,Alice Walton, is the scion of the Ozarks first family: her father, Sam Walton, opened adiscount store called Wal-Mart in nearby Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962. Today Walmart is America s largest private employer. The Walton FamilyFoundation gave the museum a $1.2 billion endowment and Ms Walton and the museumhave been on something of a buying spree for several years. | 
