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It may be a cold one tonight, but downtown Norman’s 2nd Friday Art Walk nonetheless will give pedestrians the chance to check out the city’s creative offerings.

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Julie Mehretu Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey—which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual information. Some of the most recent works on view also smartly deal with contemporary social issues, ...

The artist William T. Wiley in 1997 Jack Fulton William T. Wiley, a beloved Bay Area artist and teacher and one of the founders of the Funk Art movement—which included Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Jim Nutt and others—has died, aged 83. His son Ethan Wiley confirmed to that Wiley died from complications related to Parkinson’s disease, which the artist had lived with since 2014. Wiley was born in Bedford, Indiana, in 1937. His father was a construction foreman who frequently moved the family around the country, and they ultimately settl...