Buckyball At The Momentary — Attraction in Bentonville

A bit more impressive than the neighboring "Heavy Handed" because Buckyball is lighted! Yes, the aluminum tubing includes LED lights.

From the artist's caption, "Leo Villareal is a sculptor who uses light as his medium. Through the technology of LED bulbs and computer software that Villareal designs, the artist creates ever-changing displays of moving light and color. Named in honor of the theorist and engineer Buckminster Fuller, Buckyball features two nested geometric spheres that take the shape of a Carbon 60 molecule. The structure is covered in LED tubes capable of producing 16 million distinct colors."

Buckyball is illuminated from 10 am to 11...

If you love art, this is a great interactive piece in Bentonville. Just outside of the museums, you can lay on one of the benches as long as you like and watch the colors change. We stayed for about 30 minutes and never saw the same pattern twice. Very relaxing way to end an evening.

A unique experience on the grounds of Crystal Bridges. To sit on the contoured benches and watch the light show & stars is very relaxing. only probably was that a bunch of the lights weren't working properly (always stuck on white with no color change and several more that just were burned out) Even then, it's a beautiful...

Our visit was not enjoyable. The museum closed early because of a wedding. None of the light exhibits were working. The evening show was canceled because of bad weather that happened and ended hours earlier. We asked an associate why the light exhibits weren't working, he didn't know, but thought maybe August or September. The whole place has construction so perhaps that was the reason? Finally, some signs said the place closed at sunset, but the shuttle driver explained the shuttle would run until 10:30. Whole place very...