Arts

For function, fashion or both, purses have been a part of women’s culture for decades. “The Purse and the Person: A Century of Women’s Purses” is showing through Sept. 30 at the Edmond Historical Society & Museum. The exhibit, comprised of 170 bags and more than 300 artifacts of collector Anita Davis’ original 3,000-purse collection, […]

Some people see graffiti and street art as vandalism “? something that should be punished with a fine “¦ or worse. But for Oklahoma City University students Clinton Dean and Adam Jones, the tagging on trains, trash cans and park benches provides the inspiration for their upcoming exhibit, “Graffitto.” Opening Friday at LiT Lounge, 209 […]

. References feel fresh and in the moment. They also manage to keep the humor clean and almost apolitical. By the way, having no knowledge of any of the books will not mar the gut-tickling humor for anyone. For college students, this should be a hoot, whether the heavy literature classes are ahead of you […]

A new exhibit at the Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library puts Oklahoma City architecture in a nostalgic and sometimes somberly realistic “before and after” spotlight. The “Then and Now” exhibit displays 50 photographs, comparing historical downtown landmarks and buildings from the Metropolitan Library System’s archives with new photos taken at the same angle. The exhibit […]

As box office supervisor for Civic Center Music Hall, Carolan Bledsoe has a pet peeve: people not double-checking their tickets, showing up on the wrong night, and then blaming it on her. But local theater staffers have others. Increasingly “comfy” clothes trends of the past 20 years sometimes clash with acceptable dress at indoor, reserved-seat […]

Choreographer Lesley Snelson-Figueroa is one of five guest choreographers sculpting pieces for this weekend’s 2007 Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival at Stage Center. Her work “Too Close for Comfort” is a playful piece where women leap, roll and spin to the appropriate and delightfully weird whoops, hollers and chirps of innovative vocalist Meredith Monk. “The festival […]

If Oscar Wilde was right, and all art is utterly worthless, then what do we make of art when it can detect viruses and reveal the patterns behind urban sprawl? That, and other questions, will be answered at “Symbiosis,” an exhibit at the Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery that melds science and art, opening Friday […]

Brent Learned’s “Moments in Time on the Plains” exhibit colorfully depicts Plains Indian life, and is on display at the Gold Dome, 1112 N.W. 23rd. An Oklahoma native, Learned will be in attendance between 6 and 8 p.m. Friday. “I like his work because the colors are very strong, but yet they blend in well,” […]

The musical “Bye Bye Birdie” may be nearly 50 years old, but the fresh approach in the Poteet Little Theatre’s summer production pulls it so much into today’s technology that its age only shows in the content, not in the staging. Upon entering the intimate theater, the audience is greeted with three big projection screens, […]

Photography has the ability to take the overlooked details of life and make them beautiful in their own uniqueness. Narciso Arg