PURSUITS | High Points
The Top By Steve Gill
OKC PHILHARMONIC
IT’S A BIG, BUSY METRO OUT THERE – IF YOU CAN’T MAKE IT TO EVERYTHING, HERE’S WHERE TO START.
STUDIES IN SCARLET
Gayle Curry, “The Wrath”
February 1-24, In Your Eye Gallery The expression normally connotes fury, but in this case “Seeing Red” should prompt a whole range of emotions. The Paseo gallery draws on the combined talents of a dozen of its pre-eminent stars – Carl Shortt, Natalie Friedman, Sue Hale, Gayle Curry and more – to provide a spectrum of creative excellence sparked by the use of a single shade.
SWEET MEMORIES
February 2, National Center for Employee Development For over 30 years, Norman’s Chocolate Festival has been circled on the calendar by art lovers and the sweet-toothed alike. Choose as many vendors as there are blank boxes on your ticket and watch them fill your take-home box with amazingly tempting chocolate treats, while free art activities provide extra interest and a reminder that the whole shebang benefits the Firehouse Art Center.
THEY!
February 2-May 12, Sam Noble Museum Insects take the Sam Noble spotlight this month, and there’s no need for a magnifying glass; the subjects are already enlarged in “Bugs Outside the Box,” featuring largescale sculptures with educational material to accompany its fourfoot-long beetles, and Thomas Shahan, “Phidippus putnami” “Beautiful Beasts,” a collection of Thomas Shahan’s extreme close-ups of Oklahoma arthropods. Even entomophobes may find themselves fascinated by the level of detail.
SPECIAL, DARK
February 7, Hudson-Essex Lofts Sweet? Certainly. But this over-21-only soiree on Automobile Alley isn’t all sunshine and sugar; there’s a tantalizing extra flavor of adventure and luxury amid the live music, daring auction and wine, champagne and gourmet coffees that fuel Chocolate Decadence. Bring a date – or prowl for one there – and enjoy the perennially sold-out show.
88 SLICE // FEBRUARY 2013
Colin Currie
POWER PLAY
February 2, OKC Civic Center When Copland’s viscerally rousing “Fanfare for the Common Man” is the first piece in a concert rather than the grand finale, it’s a sign of great things to come. The OKC Philharmonic unleashes the dynamo of force named Colin Currie for a positively frenetic performance of Higdon’s Percussion Concerto in the next installment of its Classics series, entitled “Motion and Emotion.”