Even in the middle of a bustling art event like Momentum, Alexandra Knox’s performance piece “The Refusal to Forget” commands attention. For this piece, Knox kneeled on a low white pedestal dressed entirely in white. Using a simple hand grater, she methodically grated a pile of 100 beets that lay in front of her, gradually [...]
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OKC Museum of Art Celebrates 10 Years Downtown
Photo by Helen Grant. Can you imagine a montage of iconic “Oklahoma City” images without the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s 55’ tall tower of Dale Chihuly art glass? In a relatively short time, the Eleanor Blake Kirkpatrick Memorial Tower–that is the title of this piece–has become indelibly linked to the public image of downtown [...]
A Dose of Momentum
“Art doesn’t stand still”- The tagline for Momentum Oklahoma City sets the tone for an event that embraces the new, the unusual, and the experimental. This event returns to the Farmer’s Market this Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, to once again highlight the work of our community’s emerging artists. If you have [...]
Album Review- A Very She and Him Christmas (2011)
A Very She & Him Christmas has really been an album waiting to happen. Many of the characteristics of She & Him: nostalgia, kitsch, a honey-voiced vocalist- are already elements that allow classic holiday standards to connect with listeners across generations. Add to that, a vocalist who co-starred- and sang- in one of the most [...]
An OKC.NET Christmas Carol
For a long time, I was firmly in the anti-Christmas Music camp. Not by coincidence, this was a time during which I worked at a retail store, in direct contact with holiday shoppers. I have looked into the cold eyes of Black Friday and Christmas Eve shoppers alike, and I have been terrified. The closer [...]
Person of Interest: Steven Kovash
Carving out an unlikely niche of vibrant arts activities at NW 12th Street and Western Ave., Istvan Gallery prepares to celebrate four years in business with a reception this Friday. Owned and managed by Stephen Kovash, Istvan Gallery is one of four art galleries in the enclave known as Urban Art, which also includes Rick [...]
“I Wanna Know Girls”- The Girlie Show Returns
Ah, Oklahoma City in the fall: once empty box stores are temporarily reborn as Halloween supply stores; changing foliage and college football supporters compete to fill the landscape with reds and oranges; outsized pumpkins roll onto outsized lawns in historic neighborhoods. There’s something invigorating in the air. With another oppressive summer behind us and [...]
99 Bottles of Homemade Beer On The Wall
In early March 2010, the Oklahoma Legislature passed House Bill 2348 with a margin of 76 to 19. Despite a bit of predictably overblown rhetoric at the time (Cordell’s Representative Todd Russ warned colleagues in the house: “…if you go to church Sunday, remember how you voted today.”) this piece of legislation repealed a [...]
Womb Gallery: Giving A Whole New Meaning to ‘Art Opening’
Recently, drivers along Broadway Avenue in downtown Oklahoma City have noticed the progress of a mural, painted over two blank white faces of a two- story empty building on 9th Street. With flourescent pinks, radiating diagonal lines, graphic black-and-white eyeballs, and lots and lots of pink- its happy chaos is impossible to miss. This [...]
Crossing Borders: The Photography of Narciso Argüelles
While still in high school near San Diego, photographer Narciso Argüelles had a chance encounter that he describes as one of the most influential of his life: He met a man who had just been hit by a car. Injured but still able to walk, Argüelles asked if the man needed help, and he recognized [...]
