It's Museums Advocacy Day, the annual time frame that the American Alliance of Museums sets aside for showing support for museums with members of Congress and their staff in Washington, D.C.
The makers of the upcoming movie "American Underdog: The Kurt Warner Story" issued over the weekend a casting call for extras to play big, beefy football players as well as coaches, trainers, security guards and press corps Thursday in football scenes for the biopic, now filming in Oklahoma City.
"Ed Ruscha: OKLA," the second major exhibition in Oklahoma Contemporary’s new $30 million home, is believed to be the first solo exhibit of Ruscha's work in the seminal artist’s home state and hometown.
The Oklahoma City Philharmonic is promising to bring “Burst of Energy” with its Saturday Classics concert, featuring selections by Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev.
But the orchestra also will receive the energy of performing for a live audience for the first time since November with its second concert of its Classics series.
“Really, there’s power to music. . It’s like a food; it’s like nurturing. I guess with this pandemic, I finally just realized, ‘Oh my God, it’s just much more than just a job.’ The energy and sounds are literally like a nurturing energy,” said OKC Philharmonic Music Director Alexander Mickelthwate.
Ed Ruscha is considered the King of California Cool, the unofficial artist laureate of Los Angeles and an iconic American artist.
But he's also a Northwest Classen High School graduate who grew up in Oklahoma City and has never stopped digging into his Oklahoma roots for artistic inspiration.
"Ed Ruscha unarguably is one of the most influential living artists American or otherwise on the planet. He's been creating a massive body of work encompassing a variety of different media and disciplines since the early 1960s. The artist is in his 80s currently, and he's still very actively producing work. . Of course, a lot of his work is closely tied to the idea or culture of Los Angeles. But that narrative misses a pretty