Oklahoman
After the COVID-19 pandemic made Mother s Day 2020 along with most everything else a lackluster experience, 2021 is offering ample opportunities to treat Mom right.
With vaccine rates up and coronavirus cases down, many Oklahoma events are making a comeback this year, which means plenty of springtime fun is planned across the state, just in time for Mother s Day on Sunday.
From dancing nuns to animatronic dinosaurs, here are 10 possible outings for your mama this Mother s Day weekend (and they all should pair nicely with dinner, flowers and maybe some chocolates):
1. Mounds of fun at the National Cowboy Museum
Mother s Day is the last chance to see three exhibits at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63, including the sprawling Spiro and the Art of the Mississippian World, considered the first major presentation on Oklahoma s historic Spiro Mounds undertaken by a museum. Almost a decade in the making, the exhibit marks the first and li
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Avant-garde Art
The Origins of the Phrase
Originally, avant-garde was a French military term for what would be called in English the vanguard of an army. However, its first application to art precedes by some decades the emergence of any distinctly avant-garde art movements. The coinage has generally been attributed to the French social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. In his book
Opinions litteraires, philosophiques et industrielles (
Literary, Philosophical, and Industrial Opinions) (1825), published in the year of his death, Saint-Simon wrote: It is we artists who will serve you as avant-garde . . . the power of the artists is in fact most immediate and most rapid: when we wish to spread ideas among men, we inscribe them on marble or on canvas.What a magnificent destiny for the arts is that of exercising a positive power over society, a true priestly function, and of marching forcefully in the van[guard] of all the intellectual faculties.!
No doubt you know we re in the 21st century. And we re in the year 2021.
Well that, as it happens, marks the 21st year that artist Ender Martos has been living in Austin.
That, as it happens, was preceded by 21 years of him living in his native Venezuela.
Martos has taken advantage of this convergence of 21s to create a virtual exhibition that explores not only his artistic work, but also his life – and not only his life in the two 21-year spans he s enjoyed so far but also the life he aspires to live in the 21 years to come. Images of his work are accompanied by photographs of the artist as a child and a young man, videos of him in the present day at work and play in Austin, text and audio in which he shares his history and philosophies, and digital renderings of future works – it s art exhibit as biography.
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.
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