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Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art present:

Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Anna Somers Cocks: 
In Conversation

Wednesday, February 27  |  Chesapeake Energy Blue Room
5:30 pm | Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, Cash bar
6:00 pm | Lecture
Presented in Partnership with Chesapeake Energy

Desmond Shawe-Taylor manages one of the world’s most prestigious and important art collections, that of H M Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.  It reveals fashions and taste in art from the 16th century to the present day.  Anna Somers Cocks, as founder-editor and CEO of the globally influential publication The Art Newspaper, has an astonishing knowledge and overview of how public and private collections are developing in the modern era.  These two distinguished individuals will describe trends both specific and general in a spirited and lively conversation with each other.  Later the conversation will open up to include the audience.

Free Admission, RSVP required.  RSVP to brooke@cityartscenter.org or 405.951.0000.

Directions:  The Chesapeake Energy Blue Room is located in Building 7, off Western between NW 63rd Street and Classen Boulevard. Parking is available in the underground parking structure “Central Park” just West of Building 7.  When you arrive at Building 7, please take the elevator or stairs to the basement where the lecture will be held in the Blue Room. 
Click here for a map.

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