Art
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 ...
Since the early twentieth-century, photographers have crafted images that hinge on the idea of the uncanny, a psychological phenomenon existing, according to psychoanalysis, at the intersection between the reassuring and the threatening, the familiar and the new. The photographs in this exhibition build subtle tensions based on the idea of ...
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic presents an overview of the artist’s career. The exhibition highlights the range of Wiley’s production, starting with examples of early paintings executed around the time of his 2001 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. These figurative canvases of African-American men, inspired ...
Saturday, October 15 | 10:30 am and 1:30 pm Join an in-gallery tour led by Tim Ternes, Director of The Saint John’s Bible project. Two tour start times are available. Limited availability. Pre-registration recommended. $25 per ticket includes admission. Purchase tickets at okcmoa.com.
Saturday, October 15 | 10:30 am and 1:30 pm Join an in-gallery tour led by Tim Ternes, Director of The Saint John’s Bible project. Two tour start times are available. Limited availability. Pre-registration recommended. $25 per ticket includes admission. Purchase tickets at okcmoa.com.
The first illuminated, handwritten Bible of monumental size to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era is now on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Sacred Words: The Saint John's Bible and the Art of Illumination opened October 15 at OKCMOA and includes seventy ...
Arguably one of the most popular contemporary artists today, Blair Thurman’s work emphasizes his broad range of media with neon being one of his main materials. Thurman was born in New Orleans and currently lives and works in New York. As an art student in the 1980s, he sought ...
In celebration of the many extraordinary acquisitions that have made the Oklahoma City Museum of Art the premier collecting institution in central Oklahoma, the exhibition Our City, Our Collection: Building the Museum’s Lasting Legacy tells the story of the Museum’s history as a series of transformative gifts, bequests, ...
Monet to de Kooning: Selections from the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College showcased 32 key works from the Davis Museum during renovations and upgrades to its exhibition areas. The exhibition included paintings by Paul CĂ©zanne, Claude Monet, Willem de Kooning, and Lee Krasner as well as sculptures ...
Organized by the Museum and curated by Hardy George, Ph.D., this unique exhibition illustrated the sublime and sometimes destructive power of nature. With over 70 paintings, drawings, and prints from the seventeenth through the twentieth century, Tempests and Romantic Visionaries emphasized the artists’ dramatic portrayals of storms and their allegorical ...
Crosswalks presented 47 works by 14 photographers from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. Curated by New York City photographer Mason Resnick, in collaboration with the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the exhibition portrayed the unique, split-second revelations found through the art of street photography. Captured on the streets of New ...
Organized by the American Federation of Arts and The British Museum, Temples and Tombs: Treasures of Egyptian Art from The British Museum featured approximately 85 objects spanning the full range of pharaonic history — from shortly before the Third Dynasty, about 2686 B.C., to the Roman occupation of the fourth century A....
Contemporary American Prints exhibited thirty exceptional works dating from the 1960s to the present. The exhibition included works by Pop artists, such as Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist, as well as more recent works by Terry Winters, Suzanne McClelland, and Elizabeth Murray. It also displayed a variety of ...
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Organized by OKCMOA, this exciting retrospective of award-winning costume designer Edith Head will feature costumes from the 1930s to the 1960s that were worn by some of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 20th century.