Visual Art

• Entertainment, Featured, Visual Art July 14,2016 by Michael Muckian

  Art from the heart of the Driftless at Watrous

  The Driftless region in southwestern Wisconsin, with its towering bluffs and deeply carved river valleys, exerts an influence over its residents. The region comprises more than 16,000 square miles of land that avoided being scoured flat by the last glacier to pass through the state half a million years ago. Now, The James Watrous Gallery is showcasing the work of two of the region’s resident .... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Travel, Visual Art July 05,2016 by Associated Press

  Georgia O’Keeffe exhibit opens at London’s Tate Modern

  Georgia O'Keeffe has come to London, like a bracing American desert wind rippling the River Thames. An exhibition of more than 100 works opening this week at Tate Modern is the American art icon's biggest-ever show outside the United States. Curators hope it will surprise visitors who know the artist mainly for her giant flowers and sun-bleached animal skulls. The exhibition also offers O'Keef.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Lifestyle, Visual Art June 30,2016 by Michael Muckian

  MOWA presents the ads that made Milwaukee beer famous

  Many still remember when Schlitz was "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous," a longstanding tagline and a central part of the former Milwaukee brewer's marketing boast. In reality, however, it was the entire beer industry and the marketing and printing innovations it fostered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that helped make Milwaukee famous as a brewing and industrial powerhouse. Beer.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Visual Art June 30,2016 by Kat Minerath

  Villa Terrace makes Roy Staab a monumental focus

  Every step down the long wooden staircase is worth it. It follows the steep slope of the Renaissance Garden behind the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, a nearly century-old Italianate villa-turned-museum on Milwaukee’s East Side. What makes the descent particularly special at this time is Roy Staab’s sculpture, "Shadow Dance," newly installed in the lower garden. [caption id="attachmen.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Political, Visual Art June 27,2016 by Associated Press

  Art installation to melt away during conventions

  “The American Dream” will melt away during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Two artists from Brooklyn are installing massive ice sculptures of the words “The American Dream” in Cleveland and Philadelphia during those cities’ conventions. Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese hope their 4,000-pound sculptures prompt viewers to think about issues of racial and income in.... Read More
• Entertainment, Visual Art June 16,2016 by Kat Minerath

  Nohl Fellowship Artists Go Big 

  There is a lot of ambition in this year’s Nohl Fellowship Exhibition. All five of the fellowship recipients — Jon Horvath, Frankie Latina, Ben Balcom, Zach Hill and Maggie Sasso — get the opportunity to fully showcase their unique viewpoints, and they transform the Haggerty Museum of Art into an expansive journey down a variety of aesthetic avenues. The Fellowships are born from a legacy .... Read More
• Entertainment, Visual Art June 02,2016 by Kat Minerath

  Textual pleasures: Art books for summer reading 

  Whether or not you are an art aficionado, the stories of artists are interesting tales and told in many different ways — which makes them perfect possibilities for a summer reading list. Ranging from the autobiographical, to the fictional, as well as more scholarly in tone, here are a few selections to consider for the beach, hammock, or porch swing near you. In the Artists’ Words   [ca.... Read More
• Entertainment, Visual Art June 02,2016 by Rachele Krivichi

  Examining Robert Mapplethorpe three decades later

  “The thing the world is most afraid of is the penis.” That's the claim Jack Fritscher makes, partially on behalf of his ex-lover Robert Mapplethorpe, in the new HBO documentary, Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures. The film, released parallel to an unprecedented joint exhibition of the photographer's work at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art under the name Rober.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Visual Art May 23,2016 by Associated Press

  Diego Rivera painting sells privately for $15.7 million

  A Diego Rivera painting has sold privately for $15.7 million, setting a world record price for any Latin American work of art, Phillips auction house said this month. The price for “Dance in Tehuantepec” nearly doubles the figure paid at auction last month for a painting by Frida Kahlo, Rivera’s wife. Her “Two Nudes in the Forest (The Land Itself)” set a new auction record for Latin A.... Read More
• Entertainment, Featured Entertainment, Visual Art May 19,2016 by Michael Muckian

  MMOCA explores Claire Stigliani’s complexities

  Look behind Claire Stigliani's colored pencil drawings and you'll find a most complex process at work. More of those complexities than ever before can be seen at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, where the new exhibition Half-Sick of Shadows will present new drawings and paintings by Stigliani alongside video and miniaturized sets used to help create those works. The show opens May 28. .... Read More