On the Town: Online ‘Omelette Party’ to feature art raffle By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record March 11, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
This weekend, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will host its 37th annual Omelette Party – in the form of an art raffle online – as we note the one-year anniversary since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 an actual worldwide pandemic.
It obviously has been a tough year on everyone, including our nonprofit, cultural and arts organizations that continue to figure out creative ways to connect with us at home and provide essential services. So even as we’re starting to feel the hope for normalcy to return with vaccinations, let’s keep enjoying these groups’ virtual options and supporting them at home.
The 37th Annual Omelette Party benefiting the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will look a little different this year. While the in-person party has been canceled, the fan-favorite art raffle will featu…
On the Town: Act soon to catch ‘Minari’ in Oklahoma theaters By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record March 4, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
If you are like me and want to see the award-winning film
Minari that was shot in Oklahoma, you’ll have to catch it soon in select nonprofit Oklahoma theaters.
The film directed by Lee Isaac Chung won the Golden Globe Award this week for best foreign language film, even though it was filmed almost entirely in Tulsa and surrounding areas and featured several Oklahoma actors. Inspired by the director’s family’s move to the United States from South Korea when he was young, the story is of a Korean family chasing the American Dream in rural Arkansas. In addition to the Golden Globes,
DINOMITE
Museum of the Red River, 812 E Lincoln Road in Idabel, presents Acrofest 2021 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. The dinosaur-themed festival features crafts, how-to presentations, storytime, dinosaur films and more. For a full schedule or more details, call 580-286-3616, or go to www.museumoftheredriver.org.
NO JUSTICE
“New Year, New Justice,” a documentary film chronicling a walk from the state Capitol to McAlester in support of Julius Jones, screens at 8 p.m. Friday at Tower Theatre, 425 NW 23. A team of advocates walked 131 miles over four days for Jones, who is on Death Row despite credible evidence of his innocence. For information or to purchase tickets, go to
Although it is only a little larger than a shoe box, the interlocking cubes in Robert Bruce Stevenson's acrylic sculpture "Optical Construction" appear to extend into infinity, while the perfectly positioned concentric circles in Tadasky's "C-182" seem to spin like the giant record the painting resembles.
"It's almost like you can't tell if you're receding into a tunnel or if you're looking at a pyramid and it's going out that way," said Curator Catherine Shotick, waving at the lemon-hued canvas of nesting cubes that is Richard Anuszkiewicz's "Soft Yellow." "He was really just playing with the basic geometric shapes and color contrast in getting this effect.