Milwaukee Art Museum Archives

Milwaukee Art Museum is closed, will remain closed until at least January

November 19, 2020

The Milwaukee Art Museum—which has been open in a limited capacity since July—is now closed. It will remain closed until at least January 2, 2021. Sigh. Here's the press release.Milwaukee Art Museum Clo...

21 new pandemic pieces on display at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Matt Wild

July 27, 2020

In case you missed it, the Milwaukee Art Museum reopened to the public on July 16. Free admission through August 16, a timed ticketing system, earlier opening hours for "high-risk visitors," and a designated fi...

Milwaukee Art Museum will reopen July 16 (with timed ticketing, free admission for a month)

Matt Wild

July 6, 2020

The Milwaukee Art Museum will reopen to the public on Thursday, July 16. If you're a Museum Member, that reopening gets bumped ahead to Thursday, July 9.As for pandemic precautions, MAM will employee a time...

Milwaukee Art Museum cancels this year’s Lakefront Festival Of Art

Tyler Maas

April 28, 2020

Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations, there ...

Joe Pera lives it up in Milwaukee on latest episode of ‘Joe Pera Talks With You’

Tyler Maas

January 25, 2020

Last month, we told you eight reasons why you need to watch the new season of Joe Pera Talks With You. Currently most of the way through its marvelous second season, the program—which has garnered rave reviews ...

Here’s the 2019 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

Tyler Maas

June 4, 2019

Here’s the 2018 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

Tyler Maas

May 21, 2018

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...

Let’s watch this wacky Milwaukee Art Museum commercial from 1983

Matt Wild

May 11, 2017

Tonight at 5 p.m., the Milwaukee Art Museum will celebrate the opening of A Social Event Archive, a collection of more than 700 submitted photographs depicting "public or private social occasions." The piece is...

In Defense Of: “The Calling,” a.k.a. that big orange sunburst thing at the end of Wisconsin Avenue

Matt Wild

April 25, 2017

In a city as relatively small as Milwaukee, certain people, places, or things can get saddled with bad reputations. Even if these reputations are somewhat deserved, Milwaukee Record strives to look past the neg...

A comprehensive guide to finding cats at Milwaukee Art Museum

Tyler Maas

February 7, 2017

Sometimes you just need to unplug from the world.As useful a tool as it can be for providing information, entertainment, and interpersonal connection, the internet can also be a horrible, addicting, and o...

MAM’s “Haunted Screens” delves deep into dark world of German Expressionist cinema

Matt Wild

October 27, 2016

Earlier this month, during the 2016 Milwaukee Film Festival, Boston's Alloy Orchestra returned to the Oriental Theatre to perform a live music accompaniment to Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis. Lang's sil...

“American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood” gets its close-up at MAM

Matt Wild

June 30, 2016

//There's a scene in the Coen brothers' underrated 2016 film Hail, Caesar! when brassy 1950s starlet DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) is shooting a synchronized swimming film. She rises from the water, c...

Here’s the 2016 Lakefront Festival Of Art lineup

Tyler Maas

May 16, 2016

//Milwaukee Art Museum’s Lakefront Festival Of Art has always been one of the city’s classier summer festivals—no beer runs or zany street performers here! Still, per Milwaukee summer festival regulations,...

Old Milwaukee: Brooks Stevens, Wienermobiles, and High Life

Erin TerBeek

November 20, 2015

The Milwaukee Art Museum will reopen its main galleries to the public on November 24, following an extensive remodeling project. While many of the museum’s favorite pieces have been off display during constru...

“Larry Sultan: Here And Home” brings suburban ennui, flaming oranges to MAM

Matt Wild

October 22, 2015

There’s a moment in the Manos: The Hands Of Fate episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 where Joel comments on the unnerving nature of the infamously terrible film: “Every frame of this movie looks like someon...

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