This week at the OKCMOA - January 5, 2011

This Week at the OKCMOA January 5, 2010

EDUCATION

GALLERY STORIES
Join us in the galleries this Saturday at 11am as we explore unique themes connecting art and children's literature. No advance registration is required. Free with paid Museum admission. A parent or caregiver must remain with the child.

We'll meet on the second floor in the English painting gallery and learn how to look more closely at works of art. Our featured selections will include Look! Look! Look! by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace.

Cosponsored by the Metropolitan Library System.

For more information, please contact PUBLIC PROGRAMS at (405) 236-3100, ext. 231, or programs@okcmoa.com.

RESOLVE TO BE MORE CREATIVE IN 2011!
Museum School offers a variety of classes for children and adults now through May! for the schedule!

FILMS

My Dog Tulip
Thursday, 7:30pm; Friday & Saturday, 5:30pm; Sunday, 2pm
The distinguished British man of letters, J.R. Ackerley hardly thought of himself as a dog lover when, well into middle age, he came to adopt Tulip - a beautiful, yet intolerable, 18-month-old German shepherd. To his surprise, she turned out to be the love of his life, the "ideal friend" he had been searching for in vain for so many years. In vivid and sometimes startling detail, the film reveals Tulip's sassy, often erratic behavior (and very canine tastes) and Ackerley's fumbling but determined efforts to ensure an existence of perfect happiness for her. Beautifully animated by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger, it is the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted utilizing paperless computer technology, and featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer, the late Lynn Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini. Directors: Paul & Sandra Fierlinger 2009 USA 83min. NR 35mm. See the trailer!

HOWL james

Friday & Saturday, 8pm
Poetry Readings prior to each screening from UCO's Tim Bradford
James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg - poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional, leave-nothing-out style, Ginsberg recounts the road trips, love affairs, and search for personal liberation that led to the most timeless and electrifying work of his career, the poem Howl. Meanwhile, in a San Francisco courtroom, Howl is on trial. as prosecutors set out to prove that the book should be banned, while suave defense attorney Jake Ehrlich (Jon Hamm) argues fervently for freedom of speech and creative expression. The proceedings veer from the comically absurd to the passionate, as a host of unusual witnesses pit generation against generation and art against fear. HOWL is simultaneously a portrait of a renegade artist breaking down barriers to find love and redemption and an imaginative ride through a prophetic masterpiece that rocked a generation and was heard around the world. Directors: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman 2010 USA 90min. R digital HD. See the trailer!

Buy advanced tickets online!
Dinner & A Movie is $28 per person and includes movie ticket. Reservations recommended. Call (405) 235-6262

OKCMOA Film Schedule colony

Next week: GREEN SCREEN

Ingredients Thursday, 7:30pm

Colony Friday & Saturday, 5:30pm

Cool It Friday & Saturday, 8pm

Waste Land Sunday, 2pm

EVENT - OMELETTE PARTY

OKCMOA's 27th Annual Omelette Party, Eggs a la MOD, will be held Saturday, February 5, 2011, from 7:00-midnight at the Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center.

The Omelette Party Committee is chaired by Adrienne Nobles and co-chaired by Allen Brown. The event also features an open bar, live music from The Stars and DJ Brian Smith, and an amazing art raffle featuring over 50 Oklahoma artists (see below). This year's theme "Eggs a la MOD" is inspired by the Museum's exhibition George Nelson: Architect, Writer, Designer, Teacher, opening the same week. The exhibition includes over 120 three-dimensional objects, including examples of mid-century furniture, lamps, clocks, drawings, photographs, architectural models, and films.

Participating chefs and restaurants include Big Truck Tacos, Bin73 - Beau Stephenson, Chef Ken Bradford, Catering Chef Darry Carter - 61 Hundred Catering, Chef Tom Fears & Chef John Hall - Deep Fork Grill, Frank Newcomb, Kaiser's American Bistro, Tom Lienke/ Lake Hefner Golf Club, Mediterranean Deli & Imports, Melting Pot, Museum Cafe, Park Avenue Grill, Paseo Grill, Rococo, Bruce Rinehart, and VZD'S Restaurant & Club/ Chef Debbi Johnson.

Buy tickets online or in person at the Museum! To see the names of more than 50 artists, click here.