Art

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 ...

Gods and Heroes is a rich overview of masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts, the original school of fine arts in Paris, France, and a repository for work by Europe’s most renowned artists since the seventeenth century. The exhibition includes approximately 140 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper dating from ...

Modernism was a philosophical, societal, political, artistic, and literary movement that originated in Europe in the late nineteenth century. A response to the major transformations of the era, practitioners of modernism often aimed to “make it new,” in the often-quoted words of poet Ezra Pound. For painters—beginning with Vasily ...

My Generation: Young Chinese Artists is an extended look at the new generation of artists continuing to emerge in mainland China since 2000, the year that China first opened its doors to international artists and that Chinese artists began to command attention in the global arena. All of the artists in ...

Posed & Composed: Portraits of Women from the Permanent Collection exhibition considers one of the most enduring subjects in the history of Western art: portraits of women. This exhibition of twelve portraits by eleven American artists covers the period from just before World War I through the early 1980s. The ...

November 7, 2015-February 7, 2016 Celebrate the beauty and vibrancy of American quilts in a special exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Quilts and Color spotlights nearly fifty quilts with bold palettes and inventive designs from the acclaimed Pilgrim/Roy Quilt Collection. Influenced by twentieth century art developments such as ...

More than 230 rare and storied treasures created by the House of Fabergé will be celebrated in a new exhibition at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars will be on view from June 20 through September 27, 2015. The exhibition, drawn from the Collection of the Virginia Museum of ...

Warhol: The Athletes is a series of ten portraits of famous athletes commissioned by Andy Warhol’s friend and collector Richard Weisman. The legendary artist, Andy Warhol, started by creating Polaroid portraits that he shot in his Manhattan studio or in the athletes’ homes. Using his signature screen-printing technique, Warhol ...

Redesigned in collaboration with Chihuly Studio, Dale Chihuly: Magic & Light incorporates 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. This exhibition will close on Sunday, March 27, and reopen on June 18. Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter to learn more!