You might not know it, but chances are Diana Vreeland has a great deal to do with what you think when it comes to fashion, style and design. As fashion editor for Harper’s Bazaar and, later, editor of Vogue, she injected post- World War II America with an almost revolutionary sense of, as she put […]
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Happenings the week of Dec. 26, 2012
A Day on the Farm, featuring artist Cheri Wollenberg. Gallery Grazioso, 301 W. Oklahoma, 282-6467, gallerygrazioso.com. A.R.T. Show: Art in Recycled Trash, featuring art made with recycled and upcycled items, Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd, 602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. Color Exploration, featuring artist Joy Richardson. Gallery Grazioso, 301 W. Oklahoma, 282-6467, gallerygrazioso.com. Color My Way, artist […]
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Happenings the week of Dec. 26, 2012
A Day on the Farm, featuring artist Cheri Wollenberg. Gallery Grazioso, 301 W. Oklahoma, 282-6467, gallerygrazioso.com. A.R.T. Show: Art in Recycled Trash, featuring art made with recycled and upcycled items, Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd, 602-6664, sciencemuseumok.org. Color Exploration, featuring artist Joy Richardson. Gallery Grazioso, 301 W. Oklahoma, 282-6467, gallerygrazioso.com. Color My Way, artist […]
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The rest of the story
As he sat down at a computer terminal in the Social Security Administration office of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, he did not hear the boom of the explosion. He could not know that its origin was a Ryder rental truck parked just feet from the office’s reception area. “Different people have different experiences […]
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Fred Won’t Move Out
Old age, a spouse suffering with dementia, grown children in the position of caring for their parents — these are tough, complicated themes in Fred Won’t Move Out, which screens Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. That might sound like emotionally exhausting stuff, but this small indie has a surprisingly light […]
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Trashterpieces
Beatriz Myorca It’s been said that “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” But OKC Beautiful is determined to show that all of our trash could be transformed into real treasures … of art. OKC Beautiful’s A.R.T. Show: Art in Recycled Trash opened last week at Science Museum Oklahoma. Because last year’s A.R.T. Show proved […]
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‘Shout’ it out loud
Although we live in Oklahoma — Native America, as the license plates read — many people still believe the popular cinematic images of American Indians as tepee-dwelling folk clad in ceremonial headdresses and quick to dispense ancient wisdom while passing a peace pipe. It’s a stereotype that Lawton-born Kiowa/Choctaw screenwriter Steven Judd, co-writer of the […]
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‘Modern’ art
Francis Criss’ “City Landscape,” 1934 No single style encapsulates the 57 pieces of American Moderns, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s latest exhibition. “It’s not a linear, chronological survey, but a nice sampling in a 50-year span,” said Alison Amick, curator of collections. “We have a number of different artists addressing ideas of what it […]
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OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie is a different kind of “head trip” film: one that puts the audience in the mind of its subject and co-director, Bud Clayman, a middle-aged man inflicted with all the maladies that make up the unwieldy title. Those like him and those who care for people […]
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Sleepwalk with Me
Early in Sleepwalk with Me, protagonist Matt Pandamiglio (comedian Mike Birbiglia, more or less playing himself) addresses via narration the feelings his character holds for his live-in girlfriend, Abby (Lauren Ambrose, Wanderlust) with the lines, “I think falling in love for the first time is such a transcendent feeling. It’s like pizza-flavored ice cream: Your […]