Art

Fireworks (Archives), 2014, is the first of a series of works by internationally renowned filmmaker and visual artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b.: 1970) to treat the politics of Thailand through the use of pyrotechnics.

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.

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.

*Members are always FREE! Memberships start at just $50, join today to enjoy free admission, discounts, access to special events and more.* In 1916, a fourteen year-old Ansel Adams (1902-1984) began to capture the beauty of the West. Adams' subsequent body of work – over 40,000 photographs – influenced the practice of ...

Off the Wall: One Hundred Years of Sculpture features more than twenty works of sculpture from the Museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition highlights the “unconventional” in twentieth- and twenty-first century sculpture—a period in European and American art in which traditional ideas about sculpture and painting were being challenged. &...

The Museum’s collection of British painting is comprised mostly of work from the Georgian era, the reign of kings George I-III from 1714-1837, and the Victorian era, the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837-1901. During the Georgian era, accomplished portrait painter Joshua Reynolds founded the British Royal Academy of ...

Questions about ticket sales? Visit our FAQ page. OKCMOA members receive FREE admission to this exhibition. Not a member? Join today! Featuring more than seventy works by French and European masters such as Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Rousseau, and Van Gogh, this exhibition celebrates Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon’...

In the second half of the nineteenth-century, three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers revolutionized the visual arts in Britain by engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, William Morris and his associates, and the champions of the Arts & Crafts Movement offered ...

Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper features the life-size, trompe l’œil paper costumes of Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave (born 1946). Following a visit to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum in 1994, de Borchgrave began working in the new medium, creating trompe l’œil paper works in what ...

Some artists make a point of crafting visually dazzling images, while others wish for their work to be aesthetically displeasing — or indifferent at best. The Question of Beauty presents modern and contemporary art from the permanent collection that employs beauty as a mode of expression, together with work that either ...

Opening to the public on the evening of Thursday, November 16, the 110th anniversary of Oklahoma statehood, The Art of Oklahoma celebrates the Museum's outstanding and diverse collection of art created by or about Oklahomans—and the cities and landscapes they call home.  Featured alongside the works from ...

A leading figure in both contemporary film and art, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born 1970) has developed a singular, realist-surrealist style in which the portrayal of the everyday alongside supernatural elements suggests a distortion between fact and folklore, the subconscious and the exposed, and various disparities of power. His work reveals stories often ...

In 1968, the Oklahoma Art Center, OKCMOA’s predecessor, purchased the 154-piece permanent collection of the Washington Gallery of Modern Art (WGMA), the first art museum in the nation’s capital dedicated to the collection of contemporary art. That decision transformed Oklahoma City’s collection of contemporary art. Opening Feb. 17 on ...

Traveling outside Great Britain for the first time, this marvelous new exhibition presents some of the most important works from the Victoria and Albert's outstanding collection of Dutch and Flemish drawings, one of the principle holdings in Britain. Showing approximately ninety works from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, it ...

Wednesday, July 26 | 6 pm Free for members; $5 for non-members Reframing Beauty: Intimate Visions Presented by Deborah Willis, PhD This lecture will focus on artists and photographers who are looking at the past, recreating portraits through the camera’s lens while others are re-staging beauty as a performative act. ...

Sunday, July 2nd, 2 to 3 pm Free for members, $15 for non-members (includes admission to the galleries following the tour). Pre-registration recommended. These in-gallery guided tours will provide conversation-based insights and close looking experiences. To purchase tickets: Click on the blue box to the left and pay online. Please be sure to ...

Thursday, June 22nd, 6 to 7 pm Free for members, $10 for non-members (includes admission to the galleries following the tour). Pre-registration recommended. These in-gallery guided tours will provide conversation-based insights and close looking experiences. To purchase tickets: Click on the blue box to the left and pay online. Please be sure to ...

Join us for An Evening of Art and Performance as we celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions, The Unsettled Lens and After the Floating World: The Enduring Art of Japanese Woodblock Prints Friday, February 17 | 5:30-10 pm (Exhibitions officially open Saturday, February 18) Event Schedule: 5:30-10 pm | Galleries Open Cash Bar ...

Images carved onto wooden blocks used to create colorful prints on paper are among the most famous Japanese art forms. These prints, popular in Japan from the 17th through the 19th centuries, are known as Ukiyo-e, which translates as "pictures from the floating world." Ukiyo-e artists produced prints in ...

In 1935, in an effort to curb the mass unemployment of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of a number of domestic programs known collectively as the New Deal. While much of the WPA was focused on improving the nation’s infrastructure, it ...