I met Annah Chakola while wandering around The Girlie Show last fall. There are dozens of artists at The Girlie Show, but something about Annah’s booth, Boho Gypsy, kept drawing me back. From the colors and materials she uses to the stories behind her creations, it was all too easy to get hung up just [...]
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Get In The Groove: Review of Record Store Day
For decades, all kinds of technologies have promised to replace the vinyl record, but those perfectly round black discs are a lot like the resilient cockroach, an under-estimated creature that breezed through the ice age and ultimately outlasted its supposedly fiercer competitors. Indeed, vinyl has triumphed over every bright, shiny, new technology that has tried [...]
We’ll Be There Too: The Protest Against SB 1433
There are some very annoyed, possibly livid, Oklahomans today. How mad are these men and women? Well, they’re headed up to the Oklahoma State Capitol at noon to engage in protest. We will be there to document their stories about these and other reproductive rights issues. To that end, the organizers of this event are [...]
2nd Friday Art: Istvan Gallery Opens New Exhibit
Photographer Lori Oden will be one of four artists included in Istvan Gallery’s opening exhibit this Friday. The photo is from Lori Oden’s series entitled, “A Cautionary Tale.” (In conjunction with 2nd Friday Art Walks happening around the metro, each 2nd Friday OKC.NET will feature a local art gallery. -ed) Istvan Gallery 1218 North Western [...]
Reconsidering the Family Of Man – An Exhibition.
Reconsidering The Family of Man Artspace at [Untitled] 1 NE 3rd St, OKC 73104 February-May Free In 1955 “The Family of Man” opened at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York and went on to become a momentous photography exhibition. Renowned photographer and curator Edward Steichen organized the original show and the exhibit [...]
Rolling Deep: Deep Deuce Music Festival
The newly gentrified Deep Deuce neighborhood, streets once walked by Charlie Christian (the first electric guitarist of note), Ralph Ellison (author of Invisible Man, one of the greatest American novels), and Count Basie (who needs no introduction), among others, paid tribute to it’s musical and cultural history Saturday with a music festival. Photographer Lynne [...]
Saturday in the Park
Formerly a ghost town except during the annual Festival of the Arts, the new and vastly improved Myriad Gardens recently received a $30 million makeover as part of the $180 million Project 180 plan for downtown. Included in the renovation of the 17-acre park is a repaneled Crystal Bridge (with LED-lighted glass panels to illuminate [...]
Masterpiece in Peril: Bruce Goff’s Bavinger House
In a state with a great abundance of unique and diverse architectural treasures, the other-worldly Bavinger House in Norman is considered by many to be Oklahoma’s — and even the nation’s — finest example of organic Modernism. And now, sadly, it may be lost forever. But, more about that in a bit. Let’s [...]
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 [...]
