After suffering an injury that ended his dancing career, the artistic director thought he would spend perhaps four years in Tulsa. He’s retiring after three decades.
Category: Arts
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Traffic control, but make it art. Tulsa Global District amplifies local creatives and beautifies street corners.
The Beat Boxes Project brought Tulsa artists and musicians together to transform six traffic control boxes near 21st and Garnett. See where to find them.
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New photo exhibit is a ‘love letter’ to LGBTQ+ Tulsans who keep the city running
Liz Cousins has watched friends leave the city due to safety fears. In “Queer Tulsa,” she tells the stories of 20 who remain and continue to build the LGBTQ+ scene.
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Tulsa on the hook for $20K in storage costs for Cry Baby Cry statue in Florida
The city commissioned a 20-foot statue of a crying baby on a bicycle from an out-of-state artist for $250,000 in taxpayer dollars. Now it’s on the hook for thousands more in storage costs as the public art piece awaits installation.
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AI is changing how Tulsa businesses advertise. Local designers aren’t giving up.
Tulsa businesses are increasingly turning to AI to create social media ads and more. Customers are noticing, as are the designers who are losing out on paid work.
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Tulsa PAC will close for renovations in 2028. Where will performances be held in the meantime?
While renovations won’t begin until 2028, leaders need to figure out the plan soon. On the table: building a temporary theater with 1,800 seats.
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Group of Indigenous authors envision life 250 years from now in new book
A release party was held Friday at 101 Archer for “From the Heart of Our Nations.”
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Jason Lee turned his lens on Oklahoma in new photography book. A sold-out crowd welcomed him back.
The skateboarder-turned-actor-turned-photographer roamed Oklahoma for “OK/BW,” the first of two books capturing the state. He celebrated its release at Magic City Books.
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Philbrook hits the road with a new exhibit connecting Route 66 to modern art
“Roadside Abstractions: Route 66 and American Modernism” traces a parallel journey of 100 years of the Mother Road along with the artists who paved the way for American painting and sculpture to leave realism behind and explore new methods of artmaking.
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Take a bow, Marcello Angelini. The Tulsa Ballet artistic director retires after 3 decades.
He capped a legendary run at the helm of the Tulsa Ballet by taking the company to London in May to perform at the Royal Opera & Ballet at Covent Garden.
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Go behind the scenes of Oklahoma film sets through Circle Cinema gallery
Charles Elmore has spent more than two decades on Oklahoma film sets, taking photographs along the way. His work is on display in Tulsa through July.
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Don Thompson bore witness to Tulsa history. Now his photography is in the spotlight at Hulett Collection.
Don Thompson captured the impact of urban renewal policies on Greenwood. A Cherry Street gallery puts the 88-year-old photographer on center stage through September.