Arts

Watch Sculpture Milwaukee install 400+ tambourines for an Allison Janae Hamilton work

June 16, 2021

For the past four years, Sculpture Milwaukee has brought astounding works from nationally-known and internationally-appreciated artists to various spots scattered through the city’s downtown. The innovative and...

I thought I’d hate these bird sculptures in Lakeshore State Park but I kinda like them

Matt Wild

June 15, 2021

If you find yourself walking, biking, or skipping through Milwaukee's majestic Lakeshore State Park from now until August 1, you'll see some birds. No, not real birds (though you'll see plenty of those, too)—tw...

A guide to Bay View Gallery Night 2021

Tyler Maas

June 9, 2021

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized "Milwaukee’s largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community." The massive neighborhood-wide event brings together talented area artists ...

This Friday: Present Music closes 39th season with virtual “Neon Life” concert

Matt Wild

June 9, 2021

Call it "normal" or a "new normal," but it feels like we're collectively returning to...something. That mixed feeling of closure and relief and uncertainty will course through "Neon Life," the season-closing co...

Steven Wright, North Mississippi Allstars highlight South Milwaukee Performing Art Center’s 2021-2022 season

Tyler Maas

June 7, 2021

Just a few miles south of Milwaukee proper sits the aptly-named city of South Milwaukee. In addition to its natural wonders, some standout restaurants, and an awesome new statue downtown, the industrial suburb ...

The 6-foot-tall Bloody Mary and other quirky local monuments

Tyler Maas

June 2, 2021

In case you missed it, Milwaukee got a brand new statue last week and it's one that's sure to become an area icon. The new 6-foot-tall, 400-pound work of art standing outside of the flagship Sobelman's Pub &...

It’s our solemn duty to report that Milwaukee is actually getting THREE “selfie studios”

Matt Wild

June 2, 2021

Yesterday we blessed you with the news that the Milwaukee area is getting not one, but TWO so-called "selfie studios." Selfie WRLD MKE—a local outpost of a Des Moines-based chain—will open June 12 in Brookfield...

NEWaukee Night Market, now just Milwaukee Night Market, now just August 18

Matt Wild

June 2, 2021

Remember the NEWaukee Night Market? The big art fair/food truck fair/"Hey, it's the Milwaukee Blacksmith family!" fair that would take over a prime chunk of Wisconsin Avenue outside the old Shops of Grand Avenu...

Oh god, the Milwaukee area is getting not one, but TWO “selfie studios”

Matt Wild

June 1, 2021

To quote Nate Gunray from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace: THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND. NOW THERE ARE TWO OF THEM. (Two Milwaukee-area selfie studios, that is.)You've probably already read about S...

Maker Faire Milwaukee coming to MSOE campus September 24-26

Matt Wild

May 17, 2021

One of the 8,000,000 things we missed in 2020 was Maker Faire Milwaukee, a gloriously geeky celebration of funky engineering, crazy crafts, those Dalek folks, and a teenager we spotted one year making a Bob Uec...

Tonight! Milwaukee author Todd Lazarski talks ‘Spend It All’ with Justin Kern for Boswell Books

Matt Wild

May 10, 2021

What do you get when you combine not one, not two, but three Milwaukee institutions for a night of highbrow (and probably some lowbrow) conversation? You get Milwaukee writer Todd Lazarski speaking about his la...

Lion’s Tooth co-owner Cris Siqueira remembers cartoonist Richard Sala

Cris Siqueira

May 7, 2021

Richard Sala's influence is everywhere, in my opinion more so than any alternative cartoonist of his generation. There seems to be an entire new wave of artists touched by his style. Browse new graphic novel re...

Sculpture Milwaukee announces 2021 exhibition, ‘there is this We’

Tyler Maas

May 4, 2021

Milwaukee Zine Fest returns with (mostly) virtual events April 17-18

Matt Wild

April 16, 2021

In Normal Times, the annual Milwaukee Zine Fest would set up shop in Milwaukee Public Library's Central Branch for a one-day event filled with creators, workshops, and more. But these are (still) not Normal Tim...

Zhanna Slor investigates identity, 2008-era Riverwest in ‘At The End Of The World, Turn Left’

Matt Wild

April 13, 2021

"Being existentially lost has a smell; the room is drowning in it. Like grease and beer and sourness. I breathe out of my mouth, get closer. Hakol le'tova, I remind myself. Everything happens for a reason."...

Take a look inside Lion’s Tooth, which is open for appointments and limited walk-ins

Matt Wild

March 22, 2021

Four months after purchasing a storefront in Bay View—and roughly a year and a half after debuting as a subscription service—Lion's Tooth (2421 S. Kinnickinnic Ave., 414-455-3498) is finally open.Similar to...

14 pictures of “Brighten The Passage,” a.k.a. the support pier murals under the I-794 freeway

Matt Wild

February 25, 2021

Ever find yourself wandering around downtown on a mild February afternoon, completely adrift and frazzled and tired? Ever realize that this short walk is the most you've physically moved in months, and that it'...

Milwaukee Artist Resource Network announces new Third Ward arts and culture hub, inaugural show

Matt Wild

February 23, 2021

Approximately a year and a half after moving into its new home at 191 N. Broadway in the city's Historic Third Ward, the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN) has announced the impending opening of its MARN ...

FemFest goes virtual with month-long “Portraits of Femme” series

Matt Wild

February 17, 2021

Like, well, everything, Milwaukee's annual Riverwest FemFest took a pandemic-forced break in 2020. And, like, well, pretty much everything again, Milwaukee's annual FemFest will take a pandemic-forced break in ...

Dulling my Packers pain with a Nintendo Switch virtual pinball cabinet I made out of LEGO bricks

Matt Wild

January 24, 2021

Late Sunday night, after a devastating and all-too-familiar Green Bay Packers loss in the NFC Championship Game, I completed a goofy project I had started the previous week: a Nintendo Switch virtual pinball ca...