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Redesigned in collaboration with Chihuly Studio, the galleries incorporate a unique design that features a three-dimensional approach to viewing some objects in the collection. The presentation allows visitors to explore the large Float Boat and Ikebana Boat installations from all sides as well as includes viewing slots for the Reeds.
In the spring of 2019, we reopened our second-floor galleries with an exciting new presentation of our permanent collection. Headlining this reinstallation is the Museum’s latest acquisition, Kehinde Wiley’s monumental new portrait Jacob de Graeff (2018) from the artist’s Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis exhibition. Wiley’s extraordinary painting anchors a new portrait gallery that also features works by Anthony van Dyck, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and George Bellows.
The half-century or so following the end of World War II was one of the most fertile periods in the history of abstract painting. The works featured in Postwar Abstraction: Variations highlight a period of remarkable creativity, when ideas of abstraction and the nature and limits of artistic mediums were being hotly contested by artists. Associated with movements as diverse as Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting, Hard-Edge painting, Op Art, and Minimalism, artists continually sought to redefine what painting was and what it could be.
After relocating to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a teaching position, American artist Fritz Scholder (Luiseño) stated he saw one too many over-romanticized and generalized depictions of Indigenous people “looking at the sunset.” With his Indian series, started in 1967, Scholder sought to replace the tourist-approved narratives perpetuated by white artists with the realities he witnessed every day. By combining realism and spirituality with vivid colors and expressive brushstrokes, Scholder created radical new imagery of modern-day Indigenous life. Fritz Scholder: Beyond Stereotypes features 10 prints and one painting from Scholder’s revolutionary Indian series.
Theseus and the Minotaur, Narcissus and Echo, the Judgment of Paris: these may be stories you know, or names you have heard. For millennia, Classical mythology has been a shared language through which artists can tells tales of heroism, love, vengeance, and more. From the frescoes of ancient Rome through the art of today, myths have served as an eternal source of inspiration.
Artists from around the world have long been captured by the enduring appeal of the Italian countryside. Its sweeping vistas, at times sprinkled with ancient ruins, make for an enticing subject for artists in a variety of mediums. American artists in particular traveled to Italy throughout the nineteenth century to study not only the great masterpieces of ancient and Renaissance art, but also to sketch and paint the campagna, or countryside, basked in a beautiful glow.
The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples will see a number of collection highlights travel to North America for the first time. Opening June 26 and running through October 17, this historic presentation of the art of painting in ancient Rome will be presented exclusively at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art before returning to Europe.
A major cinematic rediscovery, Melvin Van Peebles' New Wave-inspired debut feature follows an African American soldier on leave in France who enters into a whirlwind romance with a white Parisian woman.
Arriving in US theaters just as the Olympic Games return to Japan, this wildly innovative and visually stunning new documentary from Julian Faraut (John McEnroe: In The Realm of Perfection) tells the tale of the Japanese women’s volleyball team’s thrilling rise, unbelievable 258 game winning streak, and eventual Olympic gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Also available to watch at home in OKCMOA's Virtual Cinema!
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who knew him, Jamila Wignot's acclaimed Sundance documentary weaves together a resonant biography of the pioneering dance choreographer.
Making a long-awaited return to theaters, Hayao Miyazaki's wildly entertaining debut feature follows dashing thief Arsène Lupin III and his gang of desperadoes as they plot to rescue a princess from the sinister Count Cagliostro. The English dubbed version of Lupin the 3rd will be presented on Saturday, August 14 at 2 pm and Sunday, August 15 at 12:30 pm. All other screenings will feature the original Japanese-language version with English subtitles.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
OKCMOA is thrilled to welcome a series of world-renowned scholars of ancient Roman art and history in conjunction with our exciting exhibition, The Painters of Pompeii. Please join us in the Noble Theater for The Roman Artist at Work with John Clarke, Ph.D., Annie Laurie Howard Regents Professor, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin.
From A24 and award-winning writer-director David Lowery, (Pete's Dragon, A Ghost Story) The Green Knight is a visionary reimagining of the timeless Arthurian legend. Starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, and Joel Edgerton, it follows King Arthur's headstrong nephew Gawain on an epic quest to confront the Green Knight.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
An award-winning highlight of the New York and Berlin Film Festivals, Days is a poetic, richly textured work of slow cinema from one of the masters of the form, Taiwanese writer-director Tsai Ming-liang. Starring Tsai's longtime collaborator Lee Kang-sheng, the film traces the daily routines of two solitary men who find consolation in a brief encounter. Screening in a special, one-night presentation!
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
OKCMOA is thrilled to welcome a series of world-renowned scholars of ancient Roman art and history in conjunction with our exciting exhibition, The Painters of Pompeii. Please join us in the Noble Theater for Visions of Food at Pompeii with Serena Connolly, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Classics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences
Featuring 99 paintings created between 1809 and the present by masters such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Andrew Wyeth, For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design opens November 6, 2021 at OKCMOA and runs through January 30, 2022. These masterworks provide a unique history of American art as told by many of the best-known American artists.
