Oct
15
Gallery Night Openings
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
Here are a few gallery openings which we weren't able to include in the print issue of the paper.
Paper Boat Gallery and Boutique
2375 S. Howell Ave.
Prints by
Kimberly Weiss (Milwaukee) and Joseph Rizzo (Minneapolis)
Opening
» Read More...
Sep
23
Unmasked and Uncomfortable
Aisha Motlani CityscapeAn air of uneasiness lingers over the “Unmasked and Anonymous” exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum and it has little to do with the severe, antiquated faces gazing at you from beneath glass vitrines. Perhaps it arises from the sense of history
» Read More...
Sep
11
Nikki McGuinnis at UWM's Union Gallery
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
Every now and then a piece of art reminds you of the exquisite beauty that resides in fragility. Such is the case with Milwaukee artist Nikki McGuinness' photographs in the soon-to-end "Intimacies" exhibit at UW-Milwaukee's Union Gallery.
» Read More...
Aug
31
Under Surveillance at the Kohler Center
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
When Richard Sennett
published his thesis on the diminishing boundaries between man’s public and
private selves in the late ‘70s, things like reality TV and the Patriot Act
were unheard of. Today they’re incontrovertible f
» Read More...
Aug
25
Interview with Grace La from La Dallman Architects
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
Why do you feel you were chosen for this project?
One of the reasons I think [Discovery World] was interested in our work
was because our firm is interested in research and work which has its
root in the geomorphology of lands—the shaping and
» Read More...
Aug
17
Should Artists Talk About Their Work?
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
Is it a mistake for an artist
to talk about his work - to allow the viewer to pierce the sumptuous veil of
illusion and gaze into the mundanities of his workaday existence? Can it really
do any harm to hear him groping for high-minded phrases, tr
» Read More...
Jul
20
Conversation on Public Art
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
On Thursday evening UWM’s Inova-Kenilworth gallery hosted a panel discussion entitled “A Conversation on Public Art” in conjunction with its soon-to-end exhibition of five sculptures created by then-Milwaukee artist Gene Galazan in 198
» Read More...
Jul
11
Book Review: Endless Cities (Phaidon)
Aisha Motlani CityscapeCities are like organized religion: richly layered, often paradoxical and uniquely qualified to bring out the best and worst in humankind. A new book edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic and titled The Endless City (Phaidon) conveys the oft-contradict
» Read More...
Jun
26
Armoury Gallery's Second Show
Aisha Motlani CityscapeTwo artists whose work is currently on display at the Armoury Gallery north of downtown tackle the traditional medium of the landscape painting in was that areboth very cotemporary yet at the same time rooted in ancient means of depicting the landscape.
» Read More...
Jun
16
Gilbert and George at MAM
Aisha Motlani Cityscape"Are you angry or are you boring?" asks one of the pieces in the new “Gilbert & George” exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM). The idea that nothing worthwhile exists outside these two states might explain why the work of the artistic
» Read More...
Shepherd Express Staff Bloggers
Express Milwaukee Contributing Bloggers
..Search Shepherd Express
- Wed
15 - Thu
16 - Fri
17 - Sat
18 - Sun
19 - Mon
20 - Tue
21
Search in Events
2008-10-15 7:00pm
Education
Free Community Lecture on why Wisconsin residents were seen as enemies of the US during World War I. Speaker is Trevor Jones, Curator of History, Neville Public Museum, Green Bay. Lecture is approximately 1 hour in length followed by a Question and Answer session. Held in Room 228.
Location: Central Milwaukee
Eighteen-year-old Ian Lafferty sets out on a cross country drive with his best
friends Lance and Felicia in order to lose his virginity to a red-hot babe he
met on the Internet. But the journey, filled wi
"Body of Lies" is based on "Washington Post" columnist David Ignatius' 2007
novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major
terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of J
The tribute-album
idiom has changed. It used to be the cover song: Pat Boone covering
Little Richard, for a '50s example of white artists taking black
artists' songs into middle-class homes; or Maurice Williams and the
Zodiacs' "Little Darlin'
Instrumental
post-rock of a surging, emotionally varied sort marks the first
full-length project by West Bend's wonderfully named Canyons of Static.
The quartet-to-quintet, depending upon whether their violinist is in
tow, takes as much from shoega
Situated east of Mitchell International Airport in an area of low-rise office buildings, South Woods restaurant occupies a very unlikely location. The patch of mature trees lining its driveway and the sign announcing the restaurant will take you by surpri
The Diablos Rojos Restaurant Group, which owns Trocadero and Cafe Hollander, opened two new venues this year. In addition to the Belgian-themed Fat Abbey, the group started Cafe Centraal (2306 S. Kinnickinnic Ave.) in the booming neighborhood of Bay View.
Halloween Events
Free Classifieds
Win Secret Machines Tickets
..Search Shepherd Express
