Jun
10
Harley Museum: First Impressions
Aisha Motlani CityscapeOn 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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May
23
A Quiet Revolutionary
Aisha Motlani CityscapeMilwaukee 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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May
18
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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Apr
25
Hopper Retrospective
Aisha Motlani CityscapeEdward 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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Apr
13
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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Apr
09
Collecting or Conquering? An Insatiable Appetite for the East
Aisha Motlani CityscapeIt’s difficult for any exploration of the Oriental-inspired 19th-century Victorian
interiors to remain entirely uncolored by the strident assertions of Edward
Said on the subject. Even the mild-toned lecture which John Eastberg, the Pabst
Mansion&rs
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Apr
01
To Save or Not To Save: It's No Longer a Question
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
This past week marked two momentous events in the world of
architecture, one of local and the other of international significance. The Old
Coast Guard Station, which had silently suffered an increasingly abject
existence since it’d been aba
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Mar
23
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
Aisha Motlani Cityscape
Almost more than any other discipline, students of
architecture are overworked (and eventually underpaid), overstretched and, it
has to be said, overindulged. So when architect Matthew Frederick recently
published his survival guide for architect
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Mar
17
Catch Them While You Can
Aisha Motlani CityscapeThough its still uncertain whether March will go out like a lamb there's still a lionshare of artwork to be seen in Milwaukee before the month ends. Here are a few things to catch while you can:
- VJAA Case Study at UWM's School of Architecture and Urba
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Mar
16
Annelisse Molini at Latino Arts
Aisha Motlani CityscapeIf there's one thing Puerto Rican artist Annelisse Molini has learnt from her architecture training it's the power of the sectional drawing. She uses it to great effect in her paintings, though in a much looser and agitated manner than most architects mig
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All Good Things, My Disaster March, and The Lillies have joined forces to help raise money and awareness for both the American Heart Association and Heart Disease. There is no cover, but we do ask for a $5 donation at the door. All proceeds go the the AHA.
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
Ry Cooder's California trilogy started purposefully and thematically with Chavez Ravine, turned old-time-radio wistful on My Name is Buddy, and now takes a complete header into the deep end for the concluding I, Flathead. Assuming the point of view
Genesis skipped Wisconsin during last year's reunion tour, but the three-DVD box set When In Rome 2007 spectacularly captures what we missed. Although original
frontman Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett passed on this tour,
the incarnation
Michael Polaski’s Umami Moto is already a familiar dining spot in Brookfield, where it has gained note for its menu of Asian fusion. A second Umami Moto opened in downtown Milwaukee this summer, located on Milwaukee Street in the former Eve. This ti
The Painted Parrot (8028 W. National Ave.) is a fun, colorful restaurant that follows a Caribbean theme. Jamaican murals cover the walls and reggae music blasts from behind the large bar. The menu wanders through the Caribbean with a few Louisiana touches
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