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Category Archives: Exhibitions
Making an Exhibition, Part 3: Approvals and Loans and Email and Paperwork
In the first two posts of this series, I’ve addressed the origins of the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Grete Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate exhibition (on view September 6, 2012 – January 1, 2013). The exhibition went from my admiration of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind the Scenes, curator, Exhibitions, Grete Marks
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Making an Exhibition, Part 2: Research (with Travel!)
As I moved through the stages of putting together the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Grete Marks: When Modern Was Degenerate exhibition (on view September 6, 2012 – January 1, 2013), I began by researching the designer through secondary literature and compiled a list … Continue reading
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Tagged Behind the Scenes, Exhibition, Grete Marks, Travel
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From the Collection–Girl in Straw Hat (Femme au Chapeau Rouge) by Pierre Bonnard
The Museum’s current exhibition Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and his Contemporaries features a number of posters by Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867-1947)—including the fantastic France-Champagne lithograph, a work that inspired the master Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to make ground-breaking posters. Did you … Continue reading
Looking at “Posters of Paris” Through the Lens of Graphic Design
Even though the exhibition Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec & His Contemporaries may be billed as a fine art retrospective, it also serves as the largest and most extensive graphic design exhibition Milwaukee has ever seen. Featuring posters from the turn … Continue reading
Face Jugs: Art and Ritual
Last month I wrote about the Chipstone Foundation’s new acquisition, an early Edgefield face jug with writing on the back. Since then, our curatorial team has uncovered the meaning behind the elusive inscription. Before revealing this discovery, I’ll catch you … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century Art, African American Art, Ceramics, Decorative Arts, Exhibitions, Face jugs, research, southern art
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