Category Archives: Art

Celebrate Women Artists at the Museum

Posted on March 7, 2019 by

Who run the [art] world? Historically, men. But, despite an enduring lack of public recognition and acclaim, our Collection shows that women artists have helped shape the art world throughout time, using their talents to not only reflect the world … Continue reading →

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Book donation drive through March 10

Posted on January 31, 2019 by

Donate books. In conjunction with the exhibition The San Quentin Project, The Milwaukee Art Museum is collecting books for the incarcerated people in our community. The book drive continues through March 10, 2019, through the run of the exhibition The … Continue reading →

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Remembering Dr. Alfred Bader

Posted on January 23, 2019 by

There is never a good time to write about the loss of a friend. And though I knew him for only a short time, Dr. Alfred Bader was a friend to us all in the Milwaukee Art Museum family. News … Continue reading →

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Modern Lamps in Midcentury America

Posted on December 7, 2018 by

In 1950, the Museum of Modern Art and New York-based Heifetz Manufacturing Company announced a design competition for floor and table lamps, offering cash prizes and the tantalizing promise that Heifetz would put at least three-quarters of the winning designs … Continue reading →

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The House of Cards Project

Posted on October 25, 2018 by

In the early 1950s, designers Charles and Ray Eames painstakingly arranged penny cars, pencils, pills, and papers to photograph for their House of Cards construction set. They probably never imagined that decades later, thousands of children and adults in the … Continue reading →

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