Link to original story. Oklahoma Historical Society officials unveiled the design rendering of the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture, a museum that will be constructed in Tulsa’s Arts District. The reveal of the “grit” and “glitz” design took place during a Monday morning news conference at the historic Cain’s Ballroom. Jeff Moore, executive director of […]
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Link to original story in the Seattle Times. Reverently preserved, carefully protected from an adoring public, The Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, contains more than 100,000 prized items of music-icon memorabilia. Here is the definitive, first-person story of an American legend — expressed through handwritten manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence; films, videos, photos and […]
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Link to original story. TULSA, Oklahoma – Five firms are competing to win the bid to renovate Tulsa’s historic Church Studio. For the next three weeks, the five firms chosen will work to come up with their bids on the renovation and additions to the iconic Tulsa landmark where Leon Russell spent so much […]
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Link to original story. Downtown Tulsa, Okla., could be described as a ghost town after the oil bust of the 1980s. [See “Back from the Dead”, March-April 2014 issue, page 22, for more background on the city’s boom to bust.] However, artists—who tend to see possibilities where others don’t—continued to make their homes and […]
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Link to original story. A team led by local architect Chris Lilly has been tentatively chosen to design and ultimately build the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture in Tulsa, state officials said Wednesday. The decision is contingent upon final contract negotiations between the state and the design team. State officials hope to break ground […]
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Link to original story. The one thing that has been decided is that the pop museum will be in the Brady Arts District. “Well, the great thing about the Brady District is it’s near everything,” said Jeff Moore, Director of OKPOP Museum. One of the possible sites is Archer and MLK. But after eight […]
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