Category: Arts

4 stops for Milwaukee’s spring Gallery Night & Day, April 19-20

April 19, 2024

Milwaukee feels saturated in art and culture at the moment. It feels a little overwhelming to put all these events on your radar, but I believe it's worth it to consume as much art as possible over the weekend....

The Space Marines of spring: AdeptiCon announces move to Milwaukee in 2025

Rob Wieland

April 15, 2024

Fresh off the successful 2024 Midwest Gaming Classic, the Baird Center will be home to another large nerd convention in 2025. AdeptiCon announced on Monday that it will be moving from its home in Schaumburg, Il...

Typewriter-tastic QWERTYFEST MKE returns June 21-23

Matt Wild

April 15, 2024

That faint clacking sound you hear throughout the city isn't your imagination—it's just the impending return of QWERTYFEST MKE, a homegrown celebration of a homegrown Milwaukee invention. That's right! Working ...

39 photos from the 2024 Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

April 8, 2024

Remember when the annual Midwest Gaming Classic was held at the Brookfield Sheraton? Remember when that seemed like a big convention? Remember when the annual Midwest Gaming Classic moved to Milwaukee's oft-ren...

Milwaukee game designer Jordan Davis slays with 8-bit swashbuckler ‘The Storied Sword’

Matt Wild

April 4, 2024

Back in February, Microsoft announced that its state-of-the-art (and pricey) PlayStation 5 was entering "the latter stage of its life cycle." This came as something of a shock for PS5 owners, since the console ...

Ecstasy and escape: 5 Milwaukee art exhibitions for spring

Annie Raab

March 27, 2024

It's spring! Maybe you've noticed? The daffodils are peeking through and the shorts-all-year guys look a little more comfortable. To celebrate the long-awaited vernal shift, we've assembled a visual arts roundu...

Marcus Performing Arts Center announces 2024-2025 Broadway season, MPAC Presents Jazz and Dance series

Tyler Maas

March 25, 2024

Milwaukee’s famed Marcus Performing Arts Center has it all: A snow pile! Rapidly-spinning advertising cubes! World-class musicals! Though the multi-faceted venue ably wears a lot of different hats, let’s focus ...

No mystery here: ‘Clue’ at Marcus Performing Arts Center is an absolute blast

Carmella D'Acquisto

March 14, 2024

Gather your candlestick, lead pipe, and rope—a mystery is afoot. Clue, the schtick-y play-based-on-the-movie-based-on-the-game, is playing at the Marcus Performing Arts Center through March 17. It's a hit of no...

Click to Accept: Highland Community Players face ‘The Loathsome Fate Of Riley Faust’

Matt Wild

March 7, 2024

"Attention: This production will use a fog machine at three different moments. The performance will also have flashing lights and will play loud music and sound effects. There may also be references to chonky c...

40,000 tear sheets from old Eisner advertising museum going up for auction

Matt Wild

February 26, 2024

For 10 years, between 2000 and 2010, the William F. Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design was a unique destination in Milwaukee's Third Ward neighborhood. The museum and event space housed tens of thousands...

Here are the dates for the 2024 Milwaukee Night Market, and that’s it

Matt Wild

February 21, 2024

Wednesday, June 26 Wednesday, July 24 Wednesday, August 14 Wednesday, September 11 Okay, okay, here's more, via a press release: Milwaukee Night Market, presented by Clover from Fiserv, returns on June...

Help fund a locally designed adult card game, ‘Forbidden Plates’

Matt Wild

February 19, 2024

Are you and your friends, in the Year of Our Lord 2024, still playing Cards Against Humanity? Looking to mix things up a bit? Then buckle up for a new game: Forbidden Plates. (Tagline: "The adult card game for ...

Our bodies are ready: Midwest Gaming Classic returns to Baird Center April 5-7

Matt Wild

February 13, 2024

In a city absolutely stuffed with events, the annual Midwest Gaming Classic is one of our favorites. Want to relive the 2023 installment? Read our one-day minute-by-minute report HERE. Want to experience all th...

WMSE’s Art & Music brings live auction, music and more to The Pritzlaff Building

Annie Raab

February 6, 2024

For the seventh year, Art & Music—an art auction fundraiser for WMSE 91.7FM—will take place at The Pritzlaff Building and showcase art and music as a means of generating support for the public radio station...

Help make locally created card game ‘Mythy’ a reality

Matt Wild

January 25, 2024

Greetings, fellow card and board game geeks! Are you looking for a light, fun, and constantly changing 2-to-6-player card game to slot between marathon sessions of Ark Nova and Gloomhaven? Are you interested in...

20 Years Later: Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira in conversation with Jaime Hernandez

Cris Siqueira

January 23, 2024

The title of this article ("20 Years Later") refers to a series of conversations starting in 2017, with cartoonists I had first met in 1997. I've been posting these new interviews here in Milwaukee Record over ...

That Culver’s mural/sign on the East Side: The Milwaukee Record Review

Matt Wild

January 22, 2024

Milwaukee is currently in the throes of a mural renaissance. It seems a week can't go by without the unveiling of another gorgeous mural on a previously unadorned side of a prominent building. There are colorfu...

5 things to see during Milwaukee’s Gallery Night & Day, January 19-20

Annie Raab

January 18, 2024

We're in the valley of it now, Milwaukee. Below zero temps, Dry January, being held accountable for our ambitious resolutions. Whatever is keeping you indoors this month is probably valid, but I do think skippi...

Whatever! Nineties-themed Diorama-Rama set for March 26

Matt Wild

January 17, 2024

Here's a fun fact: Milwaukee is home to the world's first habitat diorama! In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony diorama for the then-young Milwaukee Public Mus...

Milwaukee Makers Market releases 2024 schedule

Tyler Maas

January 8, 2024

These days, Milwaukee is home to more marketplaces for local makers, artists, crafters, and creators than ever before. And that's a great thing! With the hope that trend continues into 2024, we're excited to le...