World Views: May 31, 2013
Suzette Grillot reports from Antalya, Turkey, where she speaks with Middle East expert Joshua Landis about Turkey’s booming economy and domestic anxieties. Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Anna Somers Cocks...
View ArticleOutgoing OU Museum Director Says Technology Will Define Art’s Next Generation
The departing director of the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art says 21st Century art will be shaped by music, video, and other mixed media to visually express ideas in new and...
View ArticleWorld Views: August 23, 2013
Joshua Landis provides an update on Syria after anti-government activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime of carrying out a toxic gas attack, and the panel discusses the renewed focus on...
View ArticleEntertaining The Hours of Your Week: Artistic Adventures
Art comes in all shapes, sizes and forms and artistic event opportunities fill this weekend's OneSix8 . If you are a natural artists, or just someone trying to learn a new skill, this weekend has an...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why American Artists Rarely Painted The Civil War
The first two major American military conflicts produced some of the most important art of the 18 th and 19 th centuries. John Trumbull’s portraits of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and...
View ArticleAuthor Esmeralda Santiago Finds Identity Through Art
When Esmeralda Santiago arrived in New York City in the early 1960s , she was completely terrified. “I always think of the trip from Puerto Rico to the United States as probably the most traumatic...
View ArticleDaughters Back An Artful End To The Rivera-Rockefeller Rivalry Story
It's been called one of the great rivalries of the art world — a clash between egos, riches and ideologies. In the spring of 1932, capitalist (and prolific collector of Mexican art) Nelson Rockefeller...
View ArticleArt In Andean Religious Traditions And How It Evolved After Spanish Conquest
Colonization of the Andes and the expansion of Catholicism changed the subjects of the region’s art, but many of the older traditions survived Spain’s settlement of South America. Pre-Columbian art...
View ArticleWorld Views: February 27, 2015
Rebecca Cruise and Suzette Grillot discuss tensions between Israel and the United States ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress next week, and European nations that are...
View ArticleStolen Artifacts Returned To Italy In An Effort To Preserve Cultural History
Last week, 25 stolen archaeological artifacts – some dating back to the first century – were repatriated to Italy. Italy’s Division for the Protection of Cultural Heritage worked in cooperation with...
View ArticleWorld Views: May 29, 2015
Rebecca Cruise and Suzette Grillot discuss the former military dictator who’s about to take over for Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria’s new president, and two dozen looted religious artifacts recently...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright's Bartlesville Skyscraper Challenges Conventions Of...
Just 20 miles south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border lies a structure that can’t be missed. The tower draws crowds from around the world and has given a little city a big name. Bartlesville’s Price Tower...
View ArticleIn Volland, Kansas, Ranchers Head To The Old General Store For A New Kind Of...
Inside the gallery, it’s a scene familiar to anyone who attends art openings: People are enjoying the oil paintings and large-scale photographs bathed in natural light, snacking on cheese and crackers...
View ArticleOU Reaches Settlement With Family Over Controversial Painting Once Looted By...
The fate of a painting at the center of a years-long dispute between its former owners and the University of Oklahoma has been settled. Attorney Pierre Ciric, who represents the family of Léone Meyer,...
View ArticleKehinde Wiley Reimagines Blackness In A Eurocentric Art World
Artist Kehinde Wiley is known for his colorful portraits of everyday African-Americans in the style of classical European paintings. Raised in South Central Los Angeles and educated at the San...
View Article'¡Murales Rebeldes!': These Disappearing LA Murals Mirror Their Community
In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, on the corner of Soto Street and Cesar Chavez Avenue, a brightly colored mural masks the wall behind a bus stop. At the center of the image, a woman...
View ArticleWe Are What We Wear: Exhibition Examines Clothing That Changed The World
From baseball caps to saris to the little black dress, there's a social history woven into the clothing we wear. A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) explores that history. "...
View ArticleNew Oklahoma City Installation Immerses Its Visitors In Art
A new immersive art project could help drive business to a shopping area and create economic opportunities for Oklahoma City artists. Factory Obscura, a collective of artists, created an installation...
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