Oklahoma Is Black Friday-May 19 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 Free To view Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s art is to be confronted. Intense gazes stare out from her oil paintings or wheatpaste posters, asserting space not only on a canvas or wall, but within the world, proclaiming their existence despite the hostility […]
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Chocolate city
22nd annual Chocolate Decadence 6:30 p.m. Thursday Volvo Annex 33 Broadway Circle automobilealley.org 405-706-7484 $65-$100 Roughly nine years ago, a small crew of artists climbed rickety scaffolding, stood up on their tiptoes and hefted circular saws above their heads to cut down the sagging ceiling of the top floor of the Magnolia Building in Automobile […]
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New Year’s Eve: Burlesque resolutions
Adèle Wolf’s Burlesque & Variety Show New Year’s Eve Bash 10 p.m. Monday Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. adelewolf.com 405-673-6162 $25-$40 Adèle Wolf is deep into preparations for her annual New Year’s Eve Burlesque & Variety Show, recently returning to Oklahoma City from performances in Berlin to run one of the many […]
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HALLOWEEN Dead can dance
Pixar’s release of the 2017 blockbuster animated film Coco about a small boy searching the land of the dead to make contact with his mariachi father, will inform the way many Oklahomans view the upcoming Day of the Dead celebrations and enhance the appreciation of how the holiday encourages remembrance of loved ones who have […]
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Lit up
Whiteout Oct. 11-March 31 Campbell Art Park 1146 N. Broadway Ave. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 Free Relocating from New York City to Oklahoma City requires some adjustment, even for a configuration of LED lights embedded in transparent white spheres suspended from a grid of steel poles and cabling. Erwin Redl’s Whiteout, the latest exhibition at Campbell Art […]
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Irish steps
Students of Jean Hill have reaped the benefits of her multifaceted love of Irish culture and arts for decades. This appreciation is apparent in everything from her music selection to the ancillary cultural influences and the tenacity of maintaining one of the state’s only Irish dance outposts for over 20 years. Hill began independently teaching […]
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COVER: The tapestry
Many of Oklahoma City’s biggest summer art exhibitions share a common thread. Fiber art has entangled the local scene. There was no grand meeting of art galleries and institutions to plan shows around the broad medium. But with at least three major fiber exhibits in the metropolitan area running all at once, there clearly is […]
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Real intimacy
Honey: An Immersive Performance 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, June 21-23 Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. oklahomacontemporary.org 405-951-0000 $25 The second show in Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center’s Women in Performance series follows symphonies with sex work. Honey, a play commissioned from performance art collective Fresh Paint Performance Lab, runs Thursday-Sunday and June 21-23 at […]
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COVER: Cora’s travels
Cora’s Door 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center 3000 General Pershing Blvd. perpetualmotiondance.org 405-951-0000 $10-$20 Dancing in a multiverse allowed Perpetual Motion Dance to discover a new dimension of possibilities. Completing a six-day residency in the surrealistic interactive art installation Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, New Mexico, gave the performers in […]
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Making moves
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center got a lot out of its State Fair Park headquarters since it moved in nearly 30 years ago as the first-year organization City Arts Center. But wear and tear — along with growing community usage — necessitated a move. “We’ve loved this place into disrepair,” said artistic director Jeremiah Matthew Davis. […]