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The Oklahoma City Museum of Art has opened a new single-gallery installation, 'From Pop to Minimalist Art,' bringing together works by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring with other major names in postwar and contemporary art. The museum says the installation is on its third floor and draws from loans provided by the Art Bridges Foundation, including Warhol’s 'Coca-Cola [3]' from 1962 and Haring’s 'Self Portrait' from 1985.
The presentation places the two artists side by side within a larger story of art after midcentury abstraction. In the museum’s description, the works show how Pop Art used text, mechanical reproduction and commercial symbols to transform images from advertising, popular culture and everyday life. Warhol’s 'Coca-Cola [3]' is identified as one of his earliest depictions of the bottle image that would recur throughout his career, while Haring’s 'Self Portrait' highlights his graphic linework in a rare self-portrait.
Museum president and CEO Michael Anderson said the pairing gives visitors a chance to see Warhol and Haring together in the same gallery. He added that the installation, alongside the museum’s collection of 1960s art and beyond, tells a more complete story of how art changed after the revolutions of gestural art presented in a nearby gallery. The museum’s framing situates the new installation not as a standalone spotlight, but as part of a broader sequence of galleries that trace postwar developments.
The installation also extends beyond Pop Art to include works connected with Op Art, the Washington Color School, Hard-Edge painting and Minimalism. According to the museum, contemporary artists are shown in dialogue with those postwar movements, broadening the gallery’s range from the commercial imagery associated with Warhol and Haring to the more formal explorations of color, line and surface found in the other movements represented.
The Art Bridges loans are central to the installation, but the museum also emphasizes the relationships among the artists and movements rather than treating the works as isolated objects. Warhol and Haring are described as friends and collaborators, and the installation uses that connection to anchor the gallery’s narrative. The museum’s approach brings together signature images from different moments in each artist’s career while embedding them within a longer arc of postwar experimentation.
'From Pop to Minimalist Art' is presented as a single-gallery installation at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. The museum announced the project in connection with the new display, which is located on the third floor and features the Warhol and Haring loans alongside other works spanning postwar and contemporary art.
