Daring ideas don’t generally have a long shelf life in the arts, so maintaining a gallery and organization based around avant garde poetry, visual art and performance seems unlikely to last beyond the gestation phase. Yet Individual Artists Of Oklahoma (IAO) has endured for 40 years by pulling in new and innovative talents from a […]
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The newest exhibition at Oklahoma City Museum of Art offers more questions than answers, even for its curator. Off the Wall: One Hundred Years of Sculpture, on display through May 12, 2019, at OKCMOA, 415 Couch Drive, features more than 20 works from the museum’s permanent collection. Curator Roja Najafi said the exhibit is intended […]
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Biting the Apple 7-10 p.m. Friday and 8 p.m.-midnight Saturday IAO 706 W. Sheridan Ave. individualartists.org 405-232-6060 $25-$30 21+ In the beginning was the Sleaze Ball, but spontaneous bob doesn’t recall anything before Biting the Apple. “It started as the Sleaze Ball,” said Individual Artists of Oklahoma board president David Smith, who makes art under […]
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“We do experimental, outside-of-the-box stuff. That’s where we want to be,” IAO board president David Smith said.
“We do experimental, outside-of-the-box stuff. That’s where we want to be,” IAO board president David Smith said.
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Oklahoma Voices poetry reading promotes a diverse set of Sooner voices
Oklahoma Voices poetry reading promotes a diverse set of Sooner voices.
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Cover Story: If Sinclair Broadcast Group’s planned purchase of Tribune Media goes through, it will own half the commercial television stations in OKC
Cover Story: If Sinclair Broadcast Group’s planned purchase of Tribune Media goes through, it will own half the commercial television stations in OKC.
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Cover Story: The Jones Assembly is a cornerstone for burgeoning Film Row district
“We all pulled different elements of places, restaurants, bars and music venues that we’d seen around this country and international,” Colton told Oklahoma Gazette. “Never was there something with all-in-one. It was a challenge and an opportunity, with a big bet made on Oklahoma City.”