Milwaukee Film seeks to revive city's film festival
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A newly formed group is starting up a new annual international film festival in Milwaukee.
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Cool Pool crew plans visits to IMAX, Festa Italiana, Bradford Beach
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Here's what's on the to-do lists for this weekend:
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Global Eye: Wisconsin
Intelligent Travel (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
On Wisconsin Photographer: Ralph Grunewald, Düsseldorf, Germany Getting the Shot: I am originally from Germany (where I live now), but I spent the last year in Madison, Wisconsin where I studied and taught at the University of Wisconsin. One of...
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Fireworks Light Up the Lakefront
Play in the City (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
One of the highlights of summer for me is Fourth of July weekend. Yep, it’s great to have an extended weekend, but what makes the holiday extra special are the blazing fireworks that light up the pitch-black sky on July...
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Valencia: New horizons
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
I'm just sitting down with Helga Schmidt when the news breaks that Santiago Calatrava is in the building. The arrival of the great architect generates excitement and apprehension in equal measure. "There are things he is still not happy with," says Mrs Schmidt, the intendant of Calatrava's extraordinary Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia.
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Postcards from Milwaukee
The Urbanophile (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Amtrak station and bus terminal The Santiago Calatrava designed entry pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Buildings along the lakefront peeking out from under the Calatrava bridge to the museum.
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Viroqua furniture-maker among art show winners
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
Ten artists, including a Viroqua furniture-maker, have won awards at the Lakefront Festival of Arts. Jurors chose them from among the field of more than 170 artists at the festival.
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Milwaukee's art festival kicks off
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
When the Milwaukee Art Museum's primary fund-raising group, the Friends of Art, held its first arts festival, it was more-or-less a backyard sale.
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An Outsider’s Take on Milwaukee
Play in the City (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
If you had a friend come into town, where would you bring him/her? The Milwaukee Art Museum? Brady Street? Miller Park? Lakefront Brewery? Previously, I mentioned Eric’s friend Kevin coming to Milwaukee a few weeks ago. While I probably would...
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Lakefront art festival offers creative works
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008
The annual, three-day Lakefront Festival of Arts opens Friday on the grounds of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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Gilbert & George Retrospective Opens at The Milwaukee Art Museum
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
MILWAUKEE, WI - The first major retrospective in over twenty-five years of the British artists Gilbert & George makes the only Midwest stop on its international tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum, June 14-September 1, 2008. The exhibition is the largest ever mounted of their art, with more than 45 pictures from 1971 to the present and a host of archive materials that follow the prolific forty-year career...
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Chief curator leaving MAM
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
The Milwaukee Art Museum's chief curator, Joseph D. Ketner II, will resign his post, according to a statement from Daniel Keegan, the museum's new director, to staff and the board of trustees.
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Joe Ketner, Returning
Exhibitionist (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Joe Ketner, the former director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, is heading back to Boston. He's resigning from his job as chief curator at The Milwaukee Art Museum to become professor of contemporary art at Emerson College....
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Finances even at art museum
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
The Milwaukee Art Museum finished its 2007 operating year with a balanced budget and new acquisitions in contemporary art, photography and Biedermeier objects, according to its annual report, released in conjunction with the museum's annual mee...
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Art City: The wacky, wonderful Calatrava
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
The concrete of the Milwaukee Art Museum's new building was still raw and the construction site filled with puddles when I flew to Washington, D.C., about seven years ago.Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava had competed for a museum com...
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