Art

Federal officials in the 1930s understood how essential art was to sustaining America’s spirit. During the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration created the Public Works of Art Project, which lasted only six months from mid-December 1933 to June 1934. The purpose of the program was ...

Honoring the Oklahoma Art League’s 100th anniversary, Highlights from the Oklahoma Art League featured a selection of approximately 20 works donated by OAL. Included in the exhibition were paintings by Nellie Shepherd, Oscar Brousse Jacobson, Nan Sheets, and Doel Reed; prints by Jean-François Millet, Francisco de Goya, James Abbott ...

Passages was a 14,000-square-foot interactive, multimedia exhibition for all ages. It featured some of the most exquisite and rare biblical manuscripts, printed Bibles, and historical items in the world. These cultural treasures include a Dead Sea Scroll text, ancient biblical papyri, beautifully illuminated manuscripts, early printed materials, including a portion ...

The fourth installment of the NEW FRONTIERS Series for Contemporary Art, Poodles & Pastries (and Other Important Matters): New Works by Franco Mondini-Ruiz presented a site-specific installation of approximately 1,000 small-scale paintings, most measuring 8 x 10 inches. Poodles, Parisian icons, pastries, cupcakes, chandeliers, couples, and fashionable women appeared on canvases, embodying a ...

Faded Elegance: Photographs of Havana by Michael Eastman consisted of twenty-nine, 6 x 7 1/2 ft. photographs taken by the artist between 1999 and 2010. Over the course of a decade, Eastman captured Havana’s changing cultural landscape in his images of the city’s architecture and lush interiors, ravaged by the effects of time. ...

Chihuly: Northwest celebrates the Museum’s 10th anniversary in the Donald W. Reynolds Visual Arts Center. Opening New Year’s Eve through April 8, 2012, the exhibition will complement the Museum’s reinstallation of its Dale Chihuly glass collection, Illuminations: Rediscovering the Art of Dale Chihuly. Featuring works never before seen in ...

Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600-1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum showcased eighty objects from the magnificent collections of European decorative art of the 17th and 18th centuries, from the miniature to the monumental. It encompassed many different materials and techniques, including painting and sculpture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and ...

Julie Heffernan: Infinite Work in Progress, the 5th installment of the NEW FRONTIERS Series for Contemporary Art, presents twenty-one incredibly beautiful and complex paintings by artist Julie Heffernan. Her biography notes that akin to Magical Realism, Heffernan’s lush self-portraiture utilizes a myriad of art historical references to present a ...

Buckminster Fuller: Tetrascroll features works from the Museum’s collection by the artist, who was also considered a utopian philosopher and social theorist, designer and architect, as well as mathematician, teacher, populist, and writer. Ten prints from the artist’s Synergetics Folio as well as his twenty-six-page, forty-three foot long  ...

Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, FUSION [A New Century of Glass] will feature 47 works from the twenty-first century that embrace the diversity and depth of the human experience. This profound and thought-provoking exhibition will include examples by 20 contemporary artists working nationally and internationally who have engaged the ...

Organized by the High Museum of Art and the National Galleries of Scotland, The Art of Golf is the first-ever exhibition devoted to the game by a major American art museum. Comprising approximately 90 works from artists as diverse as Rembrandt, Charles Lees, Norman Rockwell, and Andy Warhol, The Art of ...

American Moderns, 1910–1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell will present fifty-seven artworks from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum in an exploration of the myriad ways in which American artists engaged with modernity. Ranging widely in subject matter and style, the fifty-three paintings and four sculptures were produced by leading artists ...

Photorealism Revisited will be exhibited at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art from January 24 through April 21, 2013. The exhibition features approximately sixty works from some of the most well known Photorealist artists. Photorealism—the first modern movement to assert reliance on photography as a crucial part of the artistic process—has ...

Herb Ritts: Beauty and Celebrity will be on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art from May 9 through July 28, 2013. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston with the support of the Herb Ritts Foundation and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, this exhibition will feature over eighty large-scale ...

HALO AMOK an interactive puppet installation by Wayne White, is the sixth installment of the New Frontiers Series for Contemporary Art. Wayne White considers himself an “artistic shape shifter.” He has had a remarkably diverse career working as a cartoonist, illustrator, animator, puppet designer, production designer for film and television, ...

With works by some of the greatest names in European art, Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums will examine the thematic and stylistic developments in Italian art—from the religious paintings of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to the secular neoclassical and genre paintings ...

From the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation American artist Chuck Close has been a leading figure in contemporary art since the early 1970s.  Celebrating years of the artist’s printmaking career, Chuck Close: Works on Paper, from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family ...

Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Come on Down, by New York sculptor Lisa Hoke, will feature a site-specific contemporary mural installation in the Museum’s third floor galleries and be on display December 13, 2013–April 13, 2014. The monumental wall frieze, measuring fifteen feet high and spanning more than 150 feet, ...

Recent Gifts from the Christian Keesee Collection Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, this exhibition celebrates a recent gift of 150 photographs by Brett Weston from Christian Keesee. Between 2004 and 2011, Christian Keesee has donated 360 photographs—transforming the Oklahoma City Museum of Art into a major repository of the photographer’...

Organized by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Allan Houser: On the Roof will celebrated the centennial of the noted Oklahoma Apache sculptor Allan Houser (1914-1994). Throughout 2014, Oklahoma museums and cultural institutions have joined with the Oklahoma Museums Association to present “Celebrating Allan Houser: An Oklahoma Perspective.” Allan Houser: On ...