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Aisha Motlani
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Nov
30
Hotel Hopping Part One: The Iron Horse
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By its very nature the hotel conjures
up an especially rich and often contradictory set of associations: openness and
intimacy, public engagement and private pursuit, permanence and transience,
business and pleasure, glamour and seediness. N
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Oct
15
Gallery Night Openings
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Here are a few gallery openings which we weren't able to include in the print issue of the paper.
Here's a link to the print listings.
Paper Boat Gallery and Boutique
2375 S. Howell Ave.
Prints by
Kimberly Weiss (Milwaukee)
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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
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Sep
11
Nikki McGuinnis at UWM's Union Gallery
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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.
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Aug
31
Under Surveillance at the Kohler Center
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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
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Aug
25
Interview with Grace La from La Dallman Architects
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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
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Aug
17
Should Artists Talk About Their Work?
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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
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Jul
20
Conversation on Public Art
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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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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
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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.
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No, we didn't ask for an album featuring another recording of "Breathe," leading into "Time," leading into "Breathe (Reprise)," as happens on tracks two through four on Live in Gdansk. But Pink Floyd completists (we are legion) will want it anyway. Howeve
Jorge "El Guero" Hernandez may be the best-known regional Mexican artist with Milwaukee roots. Most of a decade has passed since he and brother Rogelio moved to San Antonio, but El Guero's Banda Centenario still nurtures a unique take on the often-manic D
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