A rare opportunity to view works by the legendary Pablo Picasso begins Friday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman. The small exhibit centers on the Spanish artist’s painting Woman in the Studio, a 1956 work on loan for a year from the Saint Louis Art Museum. The exhibit includes eight other […]
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Artistic ambassador
One hundred years ago, one of the country’s most iconic and revered American Indian artists was born. His works are just as beautiful and important now as they ever were, despite a century’s worth of technological, social and political change. The Oklahoma History Center celebrates the life of the artist in Crumbo Spirit Talk, a […]
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Don’t let the sunshine in
Credit: Brad Gregg As it turns out, too much sunlight can also be a bad thing for, if not government officials, at least for their captured images. Portraits and murals on the fourth floor of the state Capitol building are slowly degrading due to the light slipping in under the dome and striking the paintings. […]
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Sweet ‘Serendipity’
A Transylvania native currently has her artwork hanging in the Governor’s Gallery of the Oklahoma state Capitol, but don’t get your hopes up, “Twilight” fans: You won’t find a single vampire in her pieces. Tunde Darvay’s exhibit, “Serendipity in Color,” remains on display through Dec. 11. Capitol galleries’ curator Alyson Moses saw Darvay’s paintings in […]
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Sweet ‘Serendipity’
A Transylvania native currently has her artwork hanging in the Governor’s Gallery of the Oklahoma state Capitol, but don’t get your hopes up, “Twilight” fans: You won’t find a single vampire in her pieces. Tunde Darvay’s exhibit, “Serendipity in Color,” remains on display through Dec. 11. Capitol galleries’ curator Alyson Moses saw Darvay’s paintings in […]
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Sweet ‘Serendipity’
A Transylvania native currently has her artwork hanging in the Governor’s Gallery of the Oklahoma state Capitol, but don’t get your hopes up, “Twilight” fans: You won’t find a single vampire in her pieces. Tunde Darvay’s exhibit, “Serendipity in Color,” remains on display through Dec. 11. Capitol galleries’ curator Alyson Moses saw Darvay’s paintings in […]
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Disney channel
He uses photographs he has taken as inspiration. He shoots while traveling the national festival circuit because, wherever the good weather and art goes, he goes. The Czech Republic, England and Australia are a few of his many destinations, but he always remembers his Oklahoma roots. “I want to be more Oklahoma-focused,” Disney said. “Cityscapes” […]
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‘Deal’ of the century
What’s the big deal with “A New Deal”? Lots, according to Alison Amick, curator at Oklahoma City Museum of Art, where the exhibition opens Thursday for a summer run. With 56 paintings, “1934: A New Deal for Artists” celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Project — the first program that addressed […]
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Truth in advertising
The resulting exhibit, “New Work,” features paintings of landscapes he saw while on a cross-country journey to 16 art shows. It remains on display through Feb. 28 at Adelante! Gallery, 3003 Paseo, where an artist’s reception will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday. “It had always been a dream of mine to […]