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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.
Museum Films is partnering with Cinema Guild to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share Lynne Sachs’ Film About a Father Who, an evocative and deeply personal documentary meditation on family and identity shot over a period of 35 years. &...
In partnership with Distrib Films, we’re proud to make master French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's luminous romantic drama available for at-home viewing in our virtual cinema! One $10 ticket is good for a 3-day pass to see Salt of Tears. 50% of each sale supports OKCMOA and its mission. Passes ...
Museum Films is partnering with Kimstim to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share French film festival highlight Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream, a timely essay on anxiety, cinephilia and isolation compiled from a dizzying array of ...
Museum Films is partnering with Cinema Guild to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share Un Film Dramatique, a charming and thought-provoking festival highlight that follows a group of French middle-school students over a period of four years. ...
Museum Films is partnering with Grasshopper Film to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share festival favorite, The Inheritance, a visually stunning experimental feature about the formation of a Black artists' collective in Philadelphia. One $12 ticket is good for ...
Museum Films is partnering with Kimstim to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share universally acclaimed festival award-winner, The Fever, a deeply resonant family drama set against the stunning backdrop of the Brazilian rainforest. One $12 ticket is good ...
Museum Films is partnering with Film Movement to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share Stanley Kwan's gorgeously restored 1991 drama Center Stage, a richly textured biography of 1930s actress Lingyu Ruan, starring Hong Kong icon Maggie Cheung. One $10 ticket ...
Museum Films is partnering with Grasshopper Film to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share Sky Hopinka's acclaimed Sundance documentary Małni—Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore, a poetic and deeply personal experimental feature that interweaves Chinookan folklore with ...
In partnership with Magnolia Pictures, we’re proud to make Venice Film Festival Best Director winner Roy Andersson's dreamlike existential fable available for in-person screenings in OKCMOA’s Noble Theater and for at-home viewing in our virtual cinema! Click here to view Noble Theater showtimes. One $12 ticket is good for ...
Museum Films is partnering with Kimstim to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share 2021 Oscar shortlist contender Hope, a beautifully acted Norwegian drama starring Andrea Bræin Hovig and Stellan Skarsgård. One $12 ticket is good for a 3-day pass ...
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.
This year, OKCMOA and SONIC Foundation are bringing Family Day straight into your home! We’ve made art kits, tours, and videos to learn about ancient Roman frescoes like those in this summer's exhibition, The Painters of Pompeii.
Museum Films is partnering with Grasshopper Film to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We’re pleased to share a beautiful new restoration of The Power of Kangwon Province, a minimalist missed-connection drama from celebrated Korean filmmaker (and Museum Films favorite) Hong Sangsoo. ...
Museum Films is partnering with Grasshopper Film to deliver the best of new world cinema straight to your living room! We're please to share New York Film Festival highlight, Slow Machine a miniature epic of paranoia, espionage, subterfuge, music, and performance captured on lush and invigorating 16mm. One $12 ...
OKCMOA members are invited to join us for Members' Preview Day on June 25! See the incredible summer exhibition, The Painters of Pompeii before it opens to the public during this exclusive preview.
Filmed in Italy, this 1913 adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii follows a group of Pompeii townspeople whose lives and stories intertwine before the fateful eruption of Mount Vesuvius. | Free and exclusive to OKCMOA Members. Seating is limited and first-come, first-served.
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.
Featuring the voices of Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto as the eponymous duo, this innovative dual-portrait documentary, from award-winning director Lisa Immordino Vreeland, charts the friendship and professional rivalry between author Truman Capote and playwright Tennessee Williams. Also available to watch at home in OKCMOA's Virtual Cinema beginning June 26.
In partnership with Kino Lorber, we're proud to make this innovative dual portrait of longtime friends and literary rivals, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, available for in-person screenings in OKCMOA’s Noble Theater and for at-home viewing in our virtual cinema! Click here to view Noble Theater showtimes. One $12 ...
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation, All Light, Everywhere is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, Hong Sangsoo's latest collaboration with award-winning actress Kim Minhee is a masterful minor-key meditation on the hidden depths of emotion and nuance concealed in everyday small talk.
This gorgeous 1980s period piece from celebrated French filmmaker François Ozon looks at the fateful friendship and love affair between two teenage boys on the Normandy coast. Screening on 35mm film as part of French Film Week 2021.
Starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider and Jane Birkin, this rediscovered 60s classic is a gorgeous tale of sun-soaked passion, rivalry and suspicion on the French Riviera. Screening in a new 4K restoration film as part of French Film Week 2021.
These staff-led tours of The Painters of Pompeii will provide conversation-based insights and close-looking experiences.
Join us for the most exciting party of the year! Sponsorships are now available!
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.
