0 students on campus, so I need to adapt my program to include something that might interest all of them,” Bendure said. CONTINUING SERIESThe university’s Russian art series will continue with “Reflections: Russian Contemporary Photography,” a photography series opening Nov. 8, and the documentary “The Battle of Chernobyl,” which will screen Nov. 17. “We’re really […]
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Norman gallery hosts exhibit featuring contemporary artists
“MARGIN: auto 0in”>Los Angeles-based sculptural artist XVALA’s series, “Amusing Ourselves to Death,” explores inner and outer beauty with pieces that juxtapose art and sex. “I discovered art in the same way I discovered sex,” the artist wrote on the gallery Web site. “Once I became interested, I began to see opportunity all around me. When […]
OCU offers high-pitched comedy with ‘Too Many Sopranos’
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World of Mirth’ details dark world of carnival
If you want to experience something like the nightmare that the scoundrels on Wall Street have been going through, go see Ghostlight Theatre Club’s production of Murphy Guyer’s “World of Mirth,” continuing Friday and Saturday at the Paseo’s a.k.a. gallery. The play takes place on the midway of Kaspar Kelly’s World of Mirth, a traveling […]
Population, pollution, global concerns inspire large-scale university installation
style=”MARGIN: auto 0in”> 45-FOOT SCAFFOLDING University students worked with Hachiyanagi over a week in late September to construct the installation, which necessitated the use of 45-foot scaffolding to reach the highest points of the gallery. “Fundamentally, Rie is working both with and against the architecture, working with and against our expectations experiencing the space and […]
Campy but contrived, ‘Horror’ spared by highly competent cast
One wonders what the corporate titans and society matrons who founded Lyric Theatre would think about the company’s current production of the musical “The Rocky Horror Show,” but actually, Lyric Theatre (founded in 1963) and “Rocky Horror” (created in 1973) are of the same generation. For “Rocky Horror,” Richard O’Brien created a send-up of horror […]
Gallery holds Xerox lithography workshop
As an alternative to traditional lithography, the Xerox machine really makes an impression. Joe Ramiro Garcia will give an artist’s talk 6:30 p.m. Friday, and a Xerox lithography workshop 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Untitled [ArtSpace]1 N.E. Third. Garcia is a Santa Fe, N.M. artist who routinely combines the printmaking process […]
Laramie Project’ might be the local theatrical event of the year
In October 1998, college student Matthew Shepard was murdered by two young men outside of Laramie, Wyo. Shepard was gay, and his brutal beating gained worldwide attention as a hate crime while he remained in a coma for a few days before dying. Mois
Jewel Box commits to comedy with ‘The Three Wives of Harry Simpson’
“The Three Wives of Harry Simpson” is a delightful battle-of-the-sexes comedy telling the story of a hardworking and hard-playing ad man. After decades of success, Harry has decided to retire and start a small French bistro, much to the chagrin of his current and former wives who devise a plan to sue Harry to keep […]
Filmmaker explores cultural identity using American imagery, iconography
quid copper texture to celebrate and lament the American dream. Optical printing and chemical techniques give the video installation the fluid, 3-D quality and produce an old photograph effect from a future era. Inspiration for “American Falls” came from Frederic Church’s 19th-century painting “Niagara” and from WPA murals of the Thirties, Solomon said. Also on […]
