After months of construction delays caused by Oklahoma’s notoriously unpredictable Bright Golden Haze March 13-Aug. 10 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 11 NW 11th St. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 Free weather, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center is ready to reopen in its new downtown location with an exhibition inspired by another of the state’s signature features. Bright Golden Haze, […]
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Kirkpatrick Family Fund distributes more than $1 million in grants
Sixty Oklahoma nonprofits will use the funds for arts, education, health, social services and other outreach programs.
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Local coffee company releases artist series
Artist Romy Owens and members of the band Miss Brown to You are the first to pair with Leap Coffee Roasters.
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New arts campus for Oklahoma Contemporary on its way
The new campus will provide space for arts education and activities in OKC.
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Study looks at need for convention center hotel subsidies
The council heard a presentation Tuesday from Tom Morsch, managing director of The PFM Group, an investment advisory firm performing a hotel feasibility study for the city. With a new convention center planned for Oklahoma City in the coming years as part of MAPS 3, the council has discussed what tax incentives might be needed […]
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Becoming Contemporary
The nonprofit, which works to provide Oklahoma City with quality, accessible and affordable arts programming and education, broke ground on its new home in Automobile Alley this morning, and unveiled its new name: Oklahoma Contemporary. City Arts Center announced in March 2012 that it would move from its home of 23 years at the Oklahoma […]
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Mickey and Me
On one hand, I feel like local filmmaker Mickey Reece should be run out of town. He is too talented not to be making “real” movies for a living on the coasts. On the other hand, I’d sure hate to lose him. His latest feature, Mickey and Me, premieres Saturday at City Arts Center. Musical […]
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Cooler running
Summer temperatures in Oklahoma always fall into one of two categories: There’s hot, and then there’s really hot. There is always a plethora of outdoor events available in Oklahoma City, but when the temperatures shoot past 100, some people balk in favor of air conditioning. And running outside? You can’t even walk without melting into […]
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Artful move
The foundation acquired more than four acres at N. Broadway and N.W. 12th Street to house the City Arts Center. Christian Keesee, president of the Kirkpatrick Family Fund, said the center has outgrown its current location at 3000 General Pershing on the fairgrounds, and the new location will provide perfect access and parking for visitors. […]
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Perdida
As a boy, I would’ve loved to have grown up with a family of naked women, robot monsters, Aztec mummies and masked wrestlers. But I’m not Viviana García-Besné. In Perdida, whose title translates to “lost,” the filmmaker documents three years of learning about — and then coming to grips with — her grandfather and great […]