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What’s Happening at the Milwaukee Art Museum: Jan. 31-Feb. 6
Greetings Packers fans! For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with Museum news, the Museum has placed a friendly-but-serious wager on Super Bowl XLV, featuring your Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The wager: If the Green … Continue reading
American Industrial Design Stamps
One could say that I’m jumping the gun on this post. But I’ll argue that I’m giving design-lovers six months fair warning, and I can’t contain my excitement: The United States Postal Service has announced their 2011 special stamps. In … Continue reading
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Tagged American Art, Decorative Arts, Design, Donald Deskey, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Russel Wright, Walter Dorwin Teague
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Milton Rogovin—“Photography could be an instrument of social change”
Photographer and social documentarian Milton Rogovin passed away last week at 101. His legacy can be found in his photographs of the underprivileged in the United States, enlightening us and provoking our compassion. His strong drive to explore social inequality led … Continue reading
Wafaa Bilal wants to do what?!
I love that the Milwaukee Art Museum doesn’t shy away from controversial contemporary artists. You might remember a work in the Museum’s Collection Galleries by Wafaa Bilal and Shawn Lawson that was temporarily installed in the Museum’s Impressionism Gallery in 2007: the Bar at the Folies Bergère … Continue reading
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Tagged Collection, Contemporary Art, Impressionism, News, Wafaa Bilal
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Bertoia in Limbo?
Check out this article in The New York Times blog about a major work by an artist in the Museum’s Collection, Harry Bertoia (American, b. Italy, 1915–1978). You can see several of his works in person in the Museum’s Bradley … Continue reading
