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
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Book Review: Endless Cities (Phaidon)
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
Cities 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
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Armoury Gallery's Second Show
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
Two 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.
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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
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Tackling the Triangle
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
Some of you may be aware of plans to improve the 5th Ward/ Walker’s Point area that were outlined in a recent article in the Milwaukee Journal’s Cue section. I went along to 5th Ward Development Association on Tuesday night at the new Café Lun
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Harley Museum: First Impressions
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
On Monday evening I had my first glimpse of the Harley Davidson Museum – albeit one restricted to its exterior (thanks to the tenacious resistance of its staff to all of my passionate entreaties to take a peek at its interior). My first impression w
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A Quiet Revolutionary
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
Milwaukee interior architect George Mann Niedecken visited Europe during a time when the curlicues of art nouveau were being succeeded by purer geometric forms of Viennese Secession in an atmosphere increasing opposed to 19th century historicism. Accordin
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Santiago Cucullu at MAM
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
In some respects Santiago
Cucullu’s onsite installation at the Milwaukee
Art Museum encapsulates
the post-modern spirit. Rather than being a single cohesive piece it’s an
agglomeration of micro-narratives. Titled MF
Ziggurat, an allusion t
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Hopper Retrospective
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
Edward Hopper's paintings of ordinary people and incidental gatherings have a strong suggestive power that
seems to imply a heftier purpose crouching in the shadows - unspoken
words electifying the spaces between speech and silence much like a
Raymond Car
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Urbanism: From Thin to Thick
Aisha Motlani
Cityscape
Ever heard of the terms “Thin Urbanism” or “Thick Urbanism”? They were used by Sarah Dunn, one half of the husband and wife
UrbanLab architecture team based in Chicago, when she came to deliver a lecture
to students at UW
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