News
Gazette staff
Oklahoma City's Festival of the Arts has been ranked as No. 16 in the 100 Fine Arts Fairs nationwide for 2011, according to Art Fair SourceBook.

Visual Arts
Courtney Silva
Oklahoma City’s rite of spring, the Festival of the Arts, is back for its 45th year. Now through Sunday, the fest takes place in downtown around the Myriad Botanical Gardens, 301 W. Reno.

Commentary
Chance Hunter
Oklahoma City was built for cars. Like many young cities in this part of the country, its growth sprawled out across a grid of major streets intersecting every mile, overlaid by a wider grid of in-town highways. Most trips take just 10 or 20 minutes even if they take almost as many miles.

Commentary
Kym Koch
If it cost you a dollar and a nickel a year, would you fork it over to attend Oklahoma City’s Festival of the Arts?

Food and Drink Features
Greg Elwell
Art is great, right? It’s all … artsy, and it makes you feel stuff. Which is why, when the torrential rains of late April show up, we OKCers like to head downtown and walk around looking at it during the perennially wet and wonderful Festival of the Arts.

Food and Drink Features
Greg Elwell
Festival of the Arts
11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday
daily through April 28
downtown Oklahoma City
artscouncilokc.com
270-4848
Free