Arts

=”mso-spacerun: yes”> Michael Gibbons does a charming about-face from recent serious roles as Luigi Gaudi, the mysterious and often-disguised hanger-on.   Sooner’s last clever trick is casting different personalities as dead, wheelchair-ridden Tony. Opening-nighters got the treat of seeing Barry Switzer himself pushed raucously all over the stage. Only once “? maybe twice “? did a […]

Beloved Oklahoma artist Brunel DeBost Faris left behind a wealth of creative talent and inventiveness. The popular collage and drawing mastermind is remembered for his teaching career at Oklahoma City University and contribution to art. His exhibit, “Selected Works,” is on display in the Governor’s Gallery, located on the second floor of the state Capitol, […]

When Jaston Williams and Joe Sears first started doing Texas sketches for political soirees, they couldn’t have guessed that their satirical swipes would grow into the phenomenon “Greater Tuna.” Set in little Tuna, Texas, during the course of one long hot day, the play introduces big talkers, small thinkers and assorted movers and shakers to […]

Sarah Hearn is a studious participant and collector of mail art, which is simply slapping a stamp on a work of art and sending it through the mail. Hearn started taking part in mail art after college as a way to keep in touch with friends, and has assembled the “Four Letter Word L*O*V*E” exhibit […]

Michelle Firment Reid spent her childhood traveling around the world while her dad worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. Reid herself worked on graphics and disguises for the CIA during college before devoting her life to painting. “I could have eventually become a spy, but I couldn’t have done my art,” she said. “Art is […]

After years of admiring the works of others, Ali Bergin finally decided to try painting. The results are colorful depictions of birds that are already being recognized for their engaging simplicity. While driving between Norman and Oklahoma City during her University of Oklahoma days, she often noticed the graffiti that decorated the highway overpasses and […]

After guiding many of tomorrow’s young artists on a daily basis, three public school art educators are getting a chance to have their own work spotlighted in a new exhibit at Oklahoma City University. “Abraham Lopez, Olivia Lopez, Marty Bernich: New Paintings” is showing at the Hulsey Gallery in the Norick Art Center on the […]

., she has a killer idea on her mind, literally. Finding self-absorbed slacker Eldon Phelps sloppy drunk in a bar, she pitches it to him: “The Dead Guy” will be the reality show to end all reality shows. The contestant will be filmed 24-7 as he spends a million dollars any way he wants.  Then, […]

Warm up with a free art festival “? brimming with dancing, food and an altogether enriching atmosphere “? at Winter ArtsFest, to be held from 2-5 p.m. Saturday at Harding Fine Arts Academy, a charter high school in the historic Harding building, 3333 N. Shartel.  The festival will feature Harding Fine Arts students’ paintings, drawings […]

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