In this ongoing series, curators and members of the Native arts community share five artists they were looking forward to seeing at the 2020 Indian Market, which has been postponed to 2021.
Philbrook Museum of Art
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Let’s All Paws to Write Letters to the Lonely Garden Cats of a Museum
The resident kitties at Tulsa’s Philbrook Museum of Art, Perilla and Cleo, are all alone — you can write them a letter while the museum is closed, and get a reply.
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A Museum Offers the Chance to Wander Its Galleries All Alone
Wouldn’t it be great to have a museum all to yourself for a day?
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A Retrospective of a Forgotten 1930s Photographer of Famous Faces
The Philbrook Museum is reconstructing the career of modernist photographer Lusha Nelson, whose life was cut short by an untimely death.
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After the Election, US Museums Affirm Their Roles as Safe, Open Spaces
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tenement Museum, and Japanese American National Museum are among those speaking out.
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The Brutality of Little Bighorn, as Seen by Someone Who Was There
TULSA, Okla. — Decades after the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stephen Standing Bear, who participated in the tumultuous engagement, recalled its chaos: “I could see Indians charging all around me. Then I could see the soldiers and Indians all mixed up and there were so many guns going off that I couldn’t hear them.”
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After the Oil’s Gone: Turning a Boomtown’s Forgotten Downtown into an Arts Center
The new downtown satellite of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa is part of a reinvigorating of the Oklahoma city’s downtown.