Renewing the American Spirit: The Art of the Great Depression through April 26 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive okcmoa.com 405-236-3100 Free-$12 Oklahoma City Museum of Art recently acquired an artwork so big there was basically no choice but to create an exhibition around it. Gardner Hale’s mural “Triumph of Washington” — nearly […]
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Designer tacos
The rainbow canopy over the patio at Mexican Radio — the newest restaurant from A Good Egg Dining Group — serves both practical and aesthetic purposes. It provides shield from the rain and allows the outdoors to be warm during the cold, but the bright colors also connect the restaurant to its home in 16th […]
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Best of OKC 2019: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Best local cover band My So Called Band Nicnos Superfreak Uncle Zep Weekend Allstars Best local original band or singer Mike Hosty Jabee Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road Sophia Massad The Dirty Little Betty’s Best radio personality or team Joey and Heather 98.9 KYIS Lisa and Kent, 92.5 KOMA Rick and Brad, 100.5 KATT Shawn […]
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Street life
The focus seems clear, but Photographing the Street is not completely black-and-white. On display through Dec. 1 at Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, Photographing the Street features 22 works by four photographers with notably varied methods and motives. “They’re all engaging with this artistic genre in different ways,” said assistant curator Jessica […]
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OKG Lifestyle: Andy Moore
Around OKC EAT: Brisket Burnt Ends Tacos at Oso on Paseo WATCH: The Bold Type (Freeform) LISTEN: “You Can Feel Sad” by Carly Gwin and the Sin READ: November Road by Lou Berney LOVE: Fireworks (Archives) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Oklahoma City Museum of Art EXPERIENCE: Bricktown Beach Outside OKC EAT: La Duni in Dallas WATCH: Hilda (Netflix) LISTEN: […]
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Cover: First Impressionists
Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 22-Sept. 22 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive okcmoa.com 405-236-3100 $15-$25 Vincent van Gogh, in a letter dated Nov. 19, 1873, gave his brother Theo some advice. “You must in any case go to the […]
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Cover: Tech boom
For its 19th annual celebration of local, regional, national and world film June 6-9 in downtown Oklahoma City, deadCenter Film Festival selected 140 features and short films. Among the final films announced for this year’s event include director Danny Boyle’s musical fantasy Yesterday, about a world in which the Beatles never existed, and Growing Up […]
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SUMMER GUIDE Art adventures
From about-to-get-a-Van-Gogh-exhibit Oklahoma City Museum of Art to soon-to-be-relocated Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center and Factory Obscura’s new space Mix-Tape and the numerous other arts organizations that we unforgivably omitted from this list just now, Oklahoma City is rife with enriching art experiences, but if you’re fortunate enough to be able to take a day or […]
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Color movement
Postwar Abstraction: Variations through Dec. 31 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive okcmoa.com 405-236-3100 Free–$12 If you have trouble understanding or enjoying abstract art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art curator Roja Najafi offers some reassuring advice that will be familiar to fans of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “Do not […]
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Face value
From the Golden Age to the Moving Image: The Changing Face of the Permanent Collection through Dec. 31, 2020 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive okcmoa.com 405-236-3100 Free-$12 Known for painting Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait, artist Kehinde Wiley’s neoclassical work typically features people of color — subjects not fully represented in art […]