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“Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous,” now on display at The Met in New York, puts the two on an equal level, chronicling their lives through paintings, works on paper, and ephemera.
On view through January 31, 2027.
Unlike similar collections, patrons with public library cards can check the reference books out at the @OKContemporary Art Reference Library and take them home.
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At ArtDesk, we gravitate toward SITE SANTA FE, a leading contemporary art center in Santa Fe. Bravo to Louis Grachos, executive director, whose recently-opened exhibition of Larry Bell’s work is certain to be a blockbuster.
In every issue of ArtDesk, Christian Keesee finds the need-to-know people, places and things in art, food and culture, and serves them up to our readers in his Dossier. Don’t miss it; subscribe to ArtDesk at subscribeartdesk.com.
Across more than 1700 works, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation displays and lends artworks while spreading opportunities for curiosity and innovation. In our latest issue, we toured the foundation’s Dallas office and explored the ideas and influences shaping their work.
From our Book Review: Perhaps best known as a contemporary sculptor, Antony Gormley has maintained a regular nightly drawing practice throughout his career.
“Drawing: Antony Gormley” takes the reader on a deeply personal journey of expression. Out now from @thamesandhudson.
Timed with the centenary of Russell’s death, “Storytellers: The Blackfeet Nation & Charles M. Russell,” now on view at Denver Art Museum, positions Russell's paintings, watercolors, and bronzes alongside work from the Blackfoot Confederacy.
On view through January 24.
The 2026 class of Kirkpatrick Fellows enjoyed a few days in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The group visited the Santa Fe Opera, taking in two performances, The Magic Flute and Madama Butterfly, and a behind-the-scenes tour with artistic director Robert Meya.
ALT FROM LEFT: Owen Weitzenhoffer, arts and culture associate at Kirkpatrick Foundation; percussionist Connor Stevens, artist Ariana Weir-Temoshok; Brandee Caoba, curator at SITE Santa Fe; Louis Grachos, executive director of SITE Santa Fe; Christian Keesee, chairman of Kirkpatrick Foundation; artist Carlos Barboza; dancer John Aguirre; dancer Natasha Abu-Fadel; Kelley Barnes, executive director, Kirkpatrick Foundation; and photographer Jakian Parks.
This Sunday: Please join us for The Intersection of Dance and Art. There will be a genre-bending performance, followed by a panel discussion.
2–4 PM, October 18 Oklahoma Art Reference Library (downtown OKC library)
Please RSVP at metrolibrary.org/dance.
“Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” opened this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
This sweeping exhibition brings together around 130 works made from the early 1940s through the 1990s.
“Roy Lichtenstein: Like New” is on view through May 10, 2027.
ALT IMAGE: Roy Lichtenstein, Crying Girl (1963).
The culinary scene in Santa Fe is hard to beat.
Fernando Olea, the executive chef and co-owner of Sázon, represents the best of the best, says Christian Keesee in the latest issue of ArtDesk.
In every issue of ArtDesk, Christian Keesee finds the need-to-know people, places and things in art, food and culture, and serves them up to our readers in his Dossier. Don’t miss it; subscribe to ArtDesk at subscribeartdesk.com.
“Photography’s First Century: Masterworks from the Bibliothèque nationale de France,” a commemoration of photography’s evolution into its own art form, is now on view at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
On view from October 4, 2026 to January 17, 2027.
ALT Image: Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sète, 1857, legal deposit of the photographer, 1860. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Department of Prints and Photography
Chad Mount’s “Frequency and Perspective” opened at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center in OKC on June 25, 2026.
This interactive exhibition will be on view through November 2, 2026.
In this subterranean former water reservoir, a circuit of lights radiates around 221 columns.
“Undercurrents,” an immersive piece by Mexican-Canadian electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is the latest installation in Houston’s Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern.
The Cistern appears transported from ancient Rome but was actually built in 1926.
Now an art venue since 2016, it’s marking its centennial with this interactive work that connects visitors across time.
In our latest issue: At Art Basel, an unexpected entity is creating art experiences worth talking about.
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