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Where to go (and what to see) at Friday’s Bay View Gallery Night

June 4, 2014

For the past few years, Made In Milwaukee’s semi-annual Bay View Gallery Night has taken the tried and true citywide art exhibition and whittled it down to a single neighborhood. By staging many of its exhibits...

Inspiration Studios breathes life into West Allis arts

Tyler Maas

May 15, 2014

For 70 years, 1500 S. 73rd Street in West Allis was an edifice shrouded in death, loss, and mourning. In 1930, Slattery & Skubal Funeral Home took root in the imposing brick building. In 2000, the funeral h...

Let’s translate the latest “Creational Trails” press release

Matt Wild

May 8, 2014

Back in May 2013, the Greater Milwaukee Committee and a slew of overlapping and cryptically named local arts groups (ART Milwaukee, MiKE, beintween, probably 8,000 more) were awarded a $350,000 ArtPlace America...

Join Milwaukee Record at Maker Market

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 1, 2014

After a successful inaugural year, Maker Market is returning for its second season. On the first Sunday of each month between May and September, the parking lot of Bay View’s Colectivo will turn into an arts an...

Help make KPolly’s “Fake A$$ Rappers” a reality

Matt Wild

April 25, 2014

The music world is filled with plenty of outsized personalities better suited to seizure-inducing Japanese cartoons (Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, etc.), and artists who blur the line between artist and...

White trash Fabergé: L.CHAPPELLE’s “Expanded Landscapes” highlights Gallery Night & Day

Brent Gohde

April 24, 2014

Spring in Milwaukee. It’s not just for baseball and Sunday Funday patio drinking. John Malan gives us the impression that this is the first time since last July that God Himself will not indiscriminately punish...

Talk, talk, talk: Alverno Presents hosts Jeanine Durning’s “inging”

Matt Wild

April 17, 2014

“You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything.” As sung by David Byrne in “Psycho Killer,” it’s a lyric that serves as a put-down at best, a condemnation from a deranged mind at worst. But as practiced ...

Tracklist: 5 reasons why the Milwaukee Art Museum addition is like the Xbox One

Matt Wild

April 14, 2014

Local art circles threw a French Impressionist-sized fit last week when the Milwaukee Art Museum released the design for its proposed 17,000-square-foot addition. The expansion would give MAM more space and a n...

Mapping the mysteries of Alverno Presents’ “Solo Flight”

Matt Wild

April 11, 2014

For more than five decades, Alverno Presents has been the city’s premiere performing arts series, bringing challenging, one-of-a-kind, and thrillingly impermanent live performances to Milwaukee. In recent years...