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18-foot-tall bronze Sculpture Milwaukee piece will be permanently installed outside City Hall

April 17, 2018

Tuesday morning, the Milwaukee Common Council unanimously approved a gift of an 18-foot-tall, 9,200-pound bronze sculpture from Sculpture Milwaukee, which will be permanently installed outside City Hall. Instal...

Listen to Kavon Cortez-Jones’ poem, “A Love Letter To Milwaukee”

Tyler Maas

April 12, 2018

Kavon Cortez-Jones loves Milwaukee. The poet (pictured third from left) and lifelong resident calls the city the “Paris of the Midwest” in his book, Club Noir. Cortez-Jones’ debut release is bursting with refer...

Milwaukee neighborhood posters, ranked

Tyler Maas

April 11, 2018

On top of being known as the "City Of Festivals" and "Cream City," Milwaukee has been aptly called "A City Of Neighborhoods." While enclaves like Bay View, Walker's Point, and Third Ward are well-known neighbor...

“Domestic Animals” Makeal Flammini and Colin Matthes bring joint exhibition to galerie Kenilworth

Matt Wild

March 21, 2018

There's no greater threat to the creative process, the common thinking goes, than "settling down." Marriage, parenthood, and home ownership couldn't be more different than making art, thinking about art, and li...

Shakespeare meets Snapchat in ‘Dick Pix Montana’

Tyler Maas

March 7, 2018

Stop us if you've heard this old story before: Boy meets girl at youth contraception PSA video shoot. Boy and girl start texting, then boy mistakenly posts a dick pic on social media and gets arrested. So goes ...

Cast, crew, and crowd get messy in Nickelodeon game show-inspired ‘Winnerz Take All’

Matt Wild

March 6, 2018

A totally tubular game show host pumps up an already pumped-up crowd. Four teams slosh around in a super sloppy obstacle course stocked with buckets of popcorn, swimming pools of slime, and paper mache boulders...

Enter the hand-drawn, hasty world of Getting Shit Done Animation Club

Matt Wild

March 6, 2018

It's a joke as old as time: Mega Man and Samus Aran walk into a bar and talk about a crazy night at Dr. Wily's. Or how about this: Two space-faring explorers bicker amongst themselves while a dastardly villain ...

A comprehensive guide to finding dogs at Milwaukee Art Museum

Tyler Maas

February 21, 2018

Last February, figuring you needed a break from the endless stream of increasingly awful news and overwhelming negativity that dominates the internet, we suggested you step away from the computer and search for...

Apply now to create a new mural for Black Cat Alley

Matt Wild

February 20, 2018

Since opening in September 2016, the East Side's Black Cat Alley has seen its fair share of controversy. Adam Stoner's "Devontay"—which depicted a black man in an orange prison jumpsuit—immediately came under f...

Dream Lab aims to blur the line between coffee shop and artist studio

Matt Wild

January 23, 2018

"I want to be the creative hub. I want to have a hand in everything creative that goes on in this city. I want it to happen here." So says Shawn DeKay, owner, creator, and dreamer-upper of Dream Lab, a hybri...

Latino Arts announces spring and summer exhibitions, performances

Tyler Maas

January 23, 2018

Despite being around since 1985 (and formally taking root in Walker’s Point in 1997), Latino Arts Inc. is only becoming more relevant with age. Recent seasons have brought Grammy-winning musicians and the work ...

Fine, let’s use Google’s “art selfie” thing on some famous Milwaukee faces

Matt Wild

January 18, 2018

Let's just get this out of the way before it disappears from your Facebook feed like so many other "10 bands I've seen live...but 1 is a lie!" time-wasters: Over the weekend, everyone got really into using Goog...

In case you missed it, Black Cat Alley’s newest mural features an alcoholic Santa Claus

Matt Wild

January 5, 2018

Since opening in September 2016, the East Side's Black Cat Alley has seen its fair share of controversy. Well, one of the pieces in the outdoor mural gallery has seen its fair share of controversy, at least. Ad...

Turning Page’s Batman and Superman mural > ‘Batman v Superman’

Matt Wild

December 20, 2017

While the internet continues to argue about Star Wars: The Last Jedi (spoiler: it's okay!), let's take a moment to remember a recent blockbuster that everyone agreed sucked: 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Ju...

Galerie Kenilworth brings art, fresh perspective to the East Side

Matt Wild

November 9, 2017

The East Side, you may have heard, is changing. The past 18 months have seen multiple businesses in the once bar-heavy North and Farwell area closing their doors, new businesses taking their place, and a more "...

Been blocked by Corey Feldman? Now there’s a patch for that

Matt Wild

October 24, 2017

Back in March, we drove our sorry asses to Green Bay to see Corey Feldman and his lingerie-clad group of Angels play the Green Bay Distillery. The show was...something. Feldman, apparently peeved at our review,...

Remembering the 2011 Gallery Night when Milwaukee officially met Milverine

Matt Wild

October 18, 2017

Milwaukee's quarterly Gallery Night is always a blast. But no matter how great the latest installment will be, it won't hold a candle to a Very Special Gallery Night event that went down in 2011. It was a water...

Watch a Medical College of Wisconsin student take some impressive notes

Josh Hoppert

October 11, 2017

Rushi Patel, a second year medical student at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is a seriously talented guy. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, he moved to Wisconsin two years ago and spent time working at Epic...

NYC artist Michael Alan brings “Living Installation” to inaugural Riverwest Gallery Night

Matt Wild

October 4, 2017

On Saturday, October 7, Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood will play host to the Riverwest Artists Association's Artwalk, as well as the inaugural Riverwest Gallery Night. Roughly 20 galleries, studios, and ven...

Hover Craft 2017 announces vendor lineup

Tyler Maas

September 29, 2017

Since 2009, Hover Craft has brought some of the most skilled local artists, crafters, retailers, and others residing beneath the broad “maker” umbrella together to bring Milwaukee-made goods to area consumers d...