Arts Scene: Frida film; Summer’s Fifth Night with Grady Nichols | Arts & Theatre

Philbrook Museum of Art will host two showings of the documentary film “Frida Kahlo,” 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5 and 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6 at the museum, 2727 S. Rockford Road.

The film, produced by Exhibition on Display screen, is regarded as a definitive seem at the existence and artwork of Frida Kahlo, whose get the job done is also featured in the museum’s present exhibit, “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism.”

Filmed extensively at Kahlo’s Mexico City residence, recognised as “The Blue House,” the documentary functions commentary from authorities who understood Kahlo and have analyzed and curated her work, as nicely as employed the hottest visual technologies to offer in-depth looks at some of her most significant operates, a number of of which are on screen at Philbrook.

Kahlo’s have letters help reveal the emotions and strategies that underlie the dense symbolism in her work, as properly as the source of her feverish creative imagination, her resilience, and her unmatched lust for daily life, politics, gentlemen and females.

Tickets for the movie are $12 grownup, which features general admission to the museum. Timed-admission tickets to “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” are obtainable at an supplemental demand. To reserve seats, and a lot more info: 918-748-5300, philbrook.org.

Utica Sq. wraps up its 2022 time of Summer’s Fifth Night time concerts with an evening of clean jazz and pop new music by Tulsa’s very own Grady Nichols, Thursday, Aug. 4, at the procuring middle at 21st Road and Utica Avenue.

The free out of doors concert will start out at 7 p.m.

Nichols has been a mainstay of the Tulsa audio scene for many years, whilst also earning significant praise from nationwide jazz critics and fellow musicians. His most latest recording, his eighth, is “Grady Nichols & Friends: Are living!” that includes collaborations with these artists as Jeff Lorber, Invoice Champlin and Andy Chrisman.