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Paul Fairchild
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The Pop and Purity of Nature
[dropcap]Crystal[/dropcap] Bridges Museum of American Art invites visitors to see the natural world through the eyes of two of America’s most prominent and distinctive artists:...

Back to the Futurista
Darryl Starbird was just a kid when America began its deep love affair with the car. In the mid-20th century, Americans, finished with Europe and...

Managing The Moving Parts
With the advent of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, new oil wells are going up around the state at a record pace and with a...

Oklahoma’s Energy
Fifteen years ago, movers and shakers wondered what the next engine of Oklahoma commerce would be. Oil and gas reservoirs were tapping out, and wind...

Advocates and Activists
Luck favors Charlie Soap. His quest to bring water to the rural community of Bell, Okla., in the 1980s brought him into the orbit of...

The Trauma Of Culture
When commentators called the 2008 presidential election for Barack Obama, author and storyteller Clifton Taulbert celebrated, but not whole-heartedly. The child in him, raised in...

Virtual Monitor
[pullquote]”I wrote a few pages and put them up. Surprisingly, it’s turned out to be addictive. There were seven pages then. There are 22,000 now.”[/pullquote]Charles...

Our Lady Of Art
Oklahoma City-based neo-pop artist Marilyn Artus drew nationwide attention with her controversial exhibit Our Lady of the Anti-Personnel Weapon & Her Stepford Friends that displayed...

The Fate of the Tracks
Supporters of passenger rail service between Oklahoma City and Tulsa are having trouble getting their voices heard over the noise of the project’s squealing brakes....