For most Americans, technology permeates everyday life via e-mails, text messages and voice messages on iPads, iPods, iPhones and miniscule laptops. It’s all about faster, lighter and smaller, especially when compared to vintage mechanisms that seem impossibly cumbersome nowadays. But is today’s...

This summer Marquette University continues its centennial celebration of women. The 2009-2010 school year marked 100 years since Marquette became the first Catholic university to admit female students alongside male students. In keeping with the theme, the university is also honoring the Haggerty...

Portraits on postcards—palladium postcard portraits, to be specific—reunite the 20th and 21st centuries in “J. Shimon and J. Lindemann: The Real Photo Postcard Survey Project,” the latest exhibition at Portrait Society Gallery (207 E. Buffalo St., fifth floor). The exhibit’s opening on Friday, July 23, coincides with Summer Gallery Night...

Through Aug. 8, the exhibition “Jennifer Bolande: Landmarks, 1982-2010” makes its home at the East Gallery of the Institute of Visual Arts (Inova) in UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. This marks the first Milwaukee exhibit for Jennifer Bolande, a UCLA art professor who has displayed her work at shows worldwide. Bolande creates...

The Wisconsin art community truly spreads its wings during the summer months, with many artists traveling to the Door Peninsula. At the nationally recognized Peninsula School of Art...

“My name is Mr. Weekend. I am an artoholic.” A giant white sock puppet with bulging blue eyes repeats these words from a corner of the art gallery in John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s current exhibition, “A Sense of Humor” (through Sept. 26).

On Sunday, June 27, Sheboygan’s John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) presents “A Celebration of Humor,” an event that kicks off its summer series titled “A Sense of Humor.” More than 20 artists provide provocative, satirical and/or witty approaches to art. Multiple mediums were chosen...

The Pacific Northwest offers artists miles of inspirational vistas. Wisconsin artist Theodore Czebotar (1915-1996) used to journey to this area every year to complete the images presented in the exhibit “Theodore Czebotar: Paintings From the Olympic Peninsula,” on display through Aug. 15 at Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art. The art in this exhibit ranges from the 1940s to the ’60s...

Blacksmithing developed as a trade many centuries ago, when forging iron into functional objects was more of a necessity. Through the ages this trade acquired an artistic sensibility, with creative design and expertise incorporated into the blacksmith’s work. The Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum...

The upcoming Father’s Day weekend offers several unique opportunities for art lovers. On June 20, The Art Institute of Chicago closes the exhibition “Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917.” The exhibit provides a personal glimpse into modernist master Henri Matisse during a time in which the artist experimented with his creative muse and dealt with the gravity of World War I.

Sitting in the Calatrava over a cup of coffee before he views his extensive retrospective at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM), Warrington Colescott...

There’s no denying that digital technology and computer software have revolutionized graphic design, but one can debate whether technology enhances the finished image or restricts the creative process by reducing the hand-drawn element. The exhibition “Ink!”—currently on display at Bay View’s BYO...

The Museum of Wisconsin Art (MWA) and Tory Folliard Gallery host two extraordinary experiences this week. Each gallery’s exhibition promises a fresh of contemporary life. One of the most expansive collections of modern...

Ruth Grotenrath (1912-1988) studied at Milwaukee’s Layton School of Art, but it appears that she truly connected her heart and talent to France and Fauvism. In viewing the works of Grotenrath, one can see how Fauvism, an early-20th-century modern art movement led by Henri Matisse (1869-1954), influences her career...

The portrait reflects a time-honored tradition that is consistently contemporary. Several captivating exhibits in the Historic Third Ward’s Marshall Building (207 E. Buffalo Ave.) offer fresh insight to this genre by picturing either...

Harry and Peg Bradley’s private world opens to Milwaukee with great celebration on May 30. Their personal retreat and 40 acre sculpture gallery renamed...

Gregory Rodriguez counts himself “lucky enough to be born into a migrant family.” The painter, who now...

Exceptional art often deserves more than one viewing. For examples in Milwaukee, look no further than the exhibits at two of the city’s most respected galleries, Dean Jensen Gallery and Tory Folliard Gallery...

The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMoCA) strives for excellence in its upcoming exhibition “2010 Wisconsin Triennial.” Wisconsin artists submit work every three years for this state tradition, which has evolved since its start in the late 1960s and features most every...

While some insects intrigue viewers, or even inspire a sense of awe, cockroaches almost always meet with disgust. Catherine Chalmers takes a closer look at the cockroach—and human reactions toward it—in “Catherine Chalmers: American Cockroach,” one of three interrelated exhibitions in the “All the Buzz” project at the Racine Art Museum (441 Main St., Racine)...

Latino Arts Inc. continually strives to provide Milwaukee with the artwork of acclaimed Latin artists. In keeping with that mission, the current exhibit “Coexistencia en Chiapas y Aqui” brings...

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts (WPCA) showcases the work of three Milwaukee artists for “In the...

Milwaukee Artbeat really knows how to throw a party. Especially one to celebrate its one-year anniversary. Bring your maracas and an $8 donation and celebrate the theme of the evening, "A Taste of Central...

Insect species, which outnumber every other animal species on Earth, inspire a sense of both fascination and fear...

Words develop into language, and language influences our thoughts and actions. Every day people are inundated by written and spoken words that require context and comprehension. In the current exhibition “A Torrent of Words: Contemporary Art...