Arts

The Westown Gateway Mural is almost in full bloom

July 9, 2019

Back in March, Downtown Milwaukee announced an open call for the Gateway Mural Project, an initiative to bring a bit of color and action to the west-facing facade of 622 W. Wisconsin Ave. A few months later, Mi...

‘Hotline Miami’ publisher releases official bootleg game, ‘Hotline Milwaukee’

Matt Wild

June 11, 2019

Milwaukee has made its fair share of appearances in film and music, but it remains largely unrepresented in the world of video games. There's the generic Milwaukee level in Rampage, we suppose, but that's about...

Behold da unveiling of “Da Crusher” statue

Matt Wild

June 8, 2019

On Saturday, June 8, in the year of our Lord 2019, it finally happened: a life-sized bronze statue of South Milwaukee wrestling legend Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski was unveiled at a gala celebration dubbed "Cru...

All 22 Sculpture Milwaukee 2019 sculptures, ranked

Matt Wild

June 6, 2019

One of Milwaukee's great public art success stories has been Sculpture Milwaukee. For the past few years, the outdoor art exhibition has peppered more than 20 wonderful, challenging, and sometimes bizarre piece...

Marcus Center releases lineup for “Live At Peck Pavilion” film screenings, concerts, plays

Tyler Maas

June 6, 2019

Marcus Performing Arts Center is known for hosting touring Broadway productions, concerts, ballet shows, community programs, and other sources of entertainment within its walls all year long. Fortunately, the v...

Here’s who’s performing in the fourth annual Milwaukee Fringe Festival

Tyler Maas

June 5, 2019

Each August since 2016, Milwaukee Fringe Festival has showcased live acts from the worlds of theater, music, dance, and visual art downtown in Pere Marquette Park, Marcus Center’s Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall, ...

30 photos of the new Saint Kate arts hotel, plus 5 photos of a haunted penthouse we slept in that one time

Matt Wild

May 30, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4, Milwaukee's newest arts hotel, Saint Kate, will open to the public. The long-anticipated project is a full reimagining of the former InterContinental Milwaukee hotel at 139 E Kilbourn Ave., ...

Emma Daisy Gertel chosen to create Westown’s Gateway Mural

Matt Wild

May 29, 2019

A guide to Bay View Gallery Night 2019

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2019

Since 2011, Bay View Gallery Night has organized “Milwaukee’s largest annual celebration of art, local business, music, and community.” The massive late spring event brings together talented area artists and mu...

What’s up with this weird rock/log thing in the woods along Lincoln Memorial Drive?

Matt Wild

May 14, 2019

Have you ever come across something in the city—a building, a business, a park—and thought to yourself, "Is this new? Have I seen this before? It can't be new, right? I must have seen this before. I dunno..." I...

Sculptures honoring Milwaukee Road workers coming to Hank Aaron State Trail

Matt Wild

April 29, 2019

Milwaukee loves a good sculpture and/or statue. There's the untold number of historical statues. There's that new City Hall sculpture. There's Sculpture Milwaukee. There's the Bronze Fonz. There's the upcoming ...

Giannis has (almost) joined Yelich on Walker’s Point mural

Matt Wild

April 23, 2019

The Milwaukee Bucks. Good grief, what can you say about the Milwaukee Bucks? Monday night, the Bucks defeated the Detroit Pistons to complete a four-game series sweep and advance to the second round of the play...

Here’s the One Trick Pony spring vendor list

Tyler Maas

April 17, 2019

Since early 2013, One Trick Pony has been doing—by its own modest assessment—"a pretty okay job" as a platform for Milwaukee, artists, makers and vintage retailers to sell their products in a fun, public settin...

Mess with us as we play ‘Paranoia’ Wednesday night on Twitch, and help raise money for RAINN

Matt Wild

April 16, 2019

Do you like tabletop role-playing games? Good. Do you like to watch people play tabletop role-playing games via Twitch? Good. Do you like to watch people play tabletop role-playing games via Twitch, and have th...

A winner is you: Get powered up for this weekend’s Midwest Gaming Classic

Matt Wild

April 11, 2019

This weekend, the 2019 Midwest Gaming Classic will somehow stuff more than 10,000 gamers, pinball pros, tabletop enthusiasts, cosplayers, vendors, and entertainers into the 150,000 square feet of the Wisconsin ...

Giant penguin will haunt Northwestern Mutual Gardens as part of 2019 Sculpture Milwaukee

Matt Wild

April 9, 2019

One of Milwaukee's great public art success stories has been Sculpture Milwaukee. For the past two years, the outdoor art exhibition has peppered more than 20 wonderful, challenging, and sometimes bizarre piece...

Watch da pouring of (some of) “Da Crusher” statue

Milwaukee Record Staff

March 27, 2019

Reggie "Da Crusher" Lisowski is known as "The Man Who Made Milwaukee Famous." Over the course of his 40-year professional wrestling career, the South Milwaukee native and World War II vet was the pride of a reg...

Want to create a mural for the west-facing facade of 622 W. Wisconsin Ave.?

Matt Wild

March 19, 2019

Downtown Milwaukee , you may have heard, is going through quite the renaissance/reboot/reimagining etc. The lowly Shops of Grand Avenue are transforming into "The Avenue." The long-vacant Warner Grand Theatre i...

Buckle up for the return of Diorama-Rama, March 26 at the Walker’s Point Anodyne

Matt Wild

March 18, 2019

Among its many oddities—beer, the Bronze Fonz, Bob Uecker—Milwaukee is home to the world's first museum diorama. In 1890, Carl Akeley, a.k.a. the "father of modern taxidermy," created a muskrat colony diorama f...

Conan O’Brien will moderate Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ event at Miller High Life Theatre March 14

Matt Wild

March 6, 2019

We'll keep this weird and wonderful news short and sweet: Michelle Obama is coming to the Miller High Life Theater on Thursday, March 14 for an "intimate conversation" about her book, Becoming. The just-announc...