Museum hotel management hinted it will unveil more surprises and artistic projects leading up to its anticipated opening in June.
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Guthrie group wants State Capitol Publishing Company building returned to community as its future is considered
“It is too important of a building to let it go,” Lentz said. “If it was in the wrong hands, it could be altered from the original purpose and the historical character lost.”
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Fred Jones Museum brings four decades of history into focus at fundraiser
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (FJJMA) Association hosts its annual fall fundraising party from 8 p.m. to midnight Nov. 13 at Norman’s newly opened Legacy Park. But this year, the association visits the museum’s past with a modern twist during Silver Soirée: Join the Legacy.
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The city’s legislative agenda
This year, Oklahoma City has dozens of policy interests it wants to advance at both state and federal levels, including funding the completion of a Native American museum, increasing transit funding and allowing the city to collect sales tax on Internet sales.
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Chicken-Fried News: God bless the Greens
God bless the Green family as they part their hair to the right, put on ties and prepare to fight for America’s soul. When they aren’t avoiding playing their fair part in the capitalist regulatory system by (now legally) denying relevant health care for female employees (but, really, why participate fully when you can simply […]
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Jabee and Funnel Design Group win an Emmy
Local musician Jabee is now an Emmy Award-winner with the help of Funnel Design Group and a viral ad for Science Museum Oklahoma.
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Thank Ferris for this day off in OKC
Go. Get outside. Follow the example that Ferris Bueller set nearly three decades ago: Play hooky and love it.
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Family matters
Come on Down The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is expecting approximately 5,000 people to attend its spring Free Family Day to celebrate art and community from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the museum, 415 Couch Drive. The free afternoon event is organized around New York sculptor Lisa Hoke’s exhibit Come on Down, a […]
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New order
Lisa Rotondo-McCord Lisa Rotondo-McCord didn’t intend to become one of the nation’s leading experts on post-disaster museum management. Her work could easily be called on-the-job training. It is a highly specialized skill set, one learned from experience. Before Hurricane Katrina, Rotondo-McCord was the curator of Asian art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA). […]
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Objets d’art
“Two Headed Hereford” In Renaissance Europe, before the advent of museums as we think of them today, there were private collections of things unable to be classified or understood called wunderkammer, or “cabinet of wonders.” The items were encyclopedic collections of objects whose collective categorization were beyond the means of classification. Some items were unclear […]