Robbie Kienzle, the Planning Department’s former head of urban development, started in the new role last month. The post oversees public-art spending, which is required by a 2009 City Council-approved plan that sets aside 1 percent of construction expenses for public art. In addition, she will oversee the city Arts Commission, coordinate activities with local […]
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Marina Abramovi?: The Artist Is Present
Is it art? A fully nude woman suspended on a wall, perched on a bicycle seat. Is it art? A man lying on the floor with a skeleton reclining atop his naked body, perhaps as if his sexual partner. Is it art? A couple stands facing one another, nary a thread, and museum visitors must […]
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I Wish
In the Japanese-language film I Wish, two brothers are coping as best they can with their parents’ separation and impending divorce. Twelve-year-old Koichi (Koki Maeda) is pensive and anxious, not cripplingly so, but enough for him to worry — not without some justification — why no one in his town seems alarmed about living in […]
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Fore your eyes only
When the summer sun gets too hot to hit the links, enjoy the leisure sport via your eyeballs at The Art of Golf, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, opening Thursday. Organized by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the National Galleries of Scotland, it is the first exhibition devoted to […]
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Nobody Else but You
A rather unconventional murder mystery fueled by the power and pain of celebrity, Nobody Else but You plays Saturday night as part of Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s French Cinema Week. Originally titled Poupoupidou in its native France for reasons that quickly become apparent, writer/director Gérald Hustache-Mathieu’s film stars Jean-Paul Rouve (La vie en rose) […]
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See the IVC
Instead, he began an art gallery, the recently opened IVC Gallery at 710 N. Broadway. The venue features works by Fuller and seven other resident artists, all but one of whom is local. The IVC houses an eclectic and interesting collection, which Fuller attributes to its artists’ diversity. “Every artist is very distinctly unique, which […]
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Artistic ambassador
One hundred years ago, one of the country’s most iconic and revered American Indian artists was born. His works are just as beautiful and important now as they ever were, despite a century’s worth of technological, social and political change. The Oklahoma History Center celebrates the life of the artist in Crumbo Spirit Talk, a […]
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Don’t let the sunshine in
Credit: Brad Gregg As it turns out, too much sunlight can also be a bad thing for, if not government officials, at least for their captured images. Portraits and murals on the fourth floor of the state Capitol building are slowly degrading due to the light slipping in under the dome and striking the paintings. […]
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Uncork that canvas
A little vino may unleash your inner van Gogh at classes taught by The Tipsy Artist. BY MALENA LOTT The Tipsy Artist 6-8:30 p.m. Thursday Gallery Grazioso 301 W. Oklahoma, Guthrie tipsyartist.COm 822-0481 In an age when even doodling gets an app, art the old-fashioned way — easel, paint, brush — feels both nostalgic and […]
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Uncork that canvas
In an age when even doodling gets an app, art the old-fashioned way — easel, paint, brush — feels both nostalgic and primitive. Those who haven’t had art instruction since being yay-high, a blank canvas can be less daunting, thanks to Tiffany Bohrer. Teaching classes as The Tipsy Artist, she helps call up creativity at […]