Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 28, 2009
Take a spin and you might win Warhol tickets
Through Saturday, you have an opportunity to win two tickets to the Milwaukee Art Museum's "Andy Warhol: The Last Decade" exhibit.
Tags: Warhol, contests, MAM, Milwaukee Art Museum, free tickets, Last Decade

Milwaukee Buzz - Oct. 6, 2009
I love this spot
It's easy for me to love this new BMW spot. It features the world's best automobile, my favorite city and one of Milwaukee's icons, the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Tags: BMW, GT, MAM, Milwaukee Art Museum, TV spot, German

Arts & Entertainment - Sept. 23, 2009
A new look at Andy Warhol's later years
Andy Warhol is easily one of the most recognizable, famous and definitely most prolific American artists that ever lived. Not only are there a seemingly endless array of museum exhibits dedicated to his special work, but there are also entire museums created just to display his talents and educate the masses about his fascinating existence.
Tags: milwaukee art museum, mam, andy warhol, the last decade

Travel & Visitors Guide - June 21, 2009
Milwaukee Staycation: Milwaukee Art Museum
Who needs expensive hotels and hours spent on airline layovers when you can save a few dollars and opt for a Milwaukee Staycation. Throughout the summer, keep an eye out for OnMilwaukee.com's ongoing Staycation articles with the low-down on the key tourism sights in Milwaukee. This installment features the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Tags: Milwaukee Art Museum, MAM, Calatrava, Eero Saarinen, War Memorial Center, Layton Art Gallery, Hatleli

Arts & Entertainment - June 6, 2009
MAM welcomes Rohlf's furniture and The Eight
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) opens two new shows simultaneously Saturday, June 6: "The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs" and "The Eight and American Modernism."
Tags: milwaukee art museum, mam, charles rohlfs, the eight, moderism

Arts & Entertainment - Feb. 20, 2009
Cedar Block presents Jan Lievens on a Jet Plane
Cedar Block kicks it old-school tonight. After five events highlighting more contemporary artists, Cedar Block is taking this collaboration with the Milwaukee Art Museum back to the 17th century to coincide with MAM's current exhibition on Dutch Master Jan Lievens.
Tags: cedar block, mam, jan lievens on a jet plane

Arts & Entertainment - Dec. 30, 2008
MAM shows Catesby and the naturalists
As the super-cutting-edge "Act/React" exhibition slows to its close on Jan. 11, Milwaukee Art Museum has a number of other exhibitions on view. One that is perhaps the opposite of "Act" in some ways is "Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World," which opened Dec. 18 and runs through March 22, 2009.
Tags: MAM, Audubon, Catesby, Act/React, Mary Weaver Chapin, Drawn to Nature, JoAnna Poehlmann

Travel & Visitors Guide - Oct. 24, 2008
David Byrne's Milwaukee travelogue
David Byrne was in town recently for a show at The Pabst Theater. While he was here, he hooked up with local musician and man about town Paul Finger. The story is all in Byrne's recent blog entry.
Tags: David Byrne, Paul Finger, boat house, Turner Hall, Deerhoof, Pabst Theater, Talking Heads, MAM, Calatrava, Tripoli Shrine, Satin Doll's Lounge

Arts & Entertainment - Oct. 3, 2008
MAM's "Act/React" ditches the middleman
Interactive exhibits are nothing new. And George Fifield, guest curator of Milwaukee Art Museum's "Act/React" show, which opens today -- would be the first to admit that. But, he says, that's not what "Act/React" is, exactly. Thanks to its lack of interface, "Act/React" is the world's first unmediated interactive exhibition.
Tags: MAM, George Fifield, Act/React, Liz Phillips, Scott Snibbe, Camille Utterback

Arts & Entertainment - Aug. 12, 2008
What do you get when you cross...
This Friday, Cedar Block takes over the Milwaukee Art Museum with a one-night-only exhibit of local artists paying tribute to Gilbert & George, the legendary duo which has been collaborating artistically for so long they consider themselves to be not two artists, but one.
Tags: cedar block, gilbert & george, milwaukee art museum, mam, what you get when you cross, brent gohde, milan zori

Arts & Entertainment - June 23, 2008
Milwaukee Talks: MAM director Dan Keegan
Milwaukee Art Museum director Dan Keegan has some progressive ideas for the future of the museum; ones that will undoubtedly keep it on the forefront of Milwaukee's cultural attraction. We sat down to talk with him about his plans in this latest Milwaukee Talks.
Tags: milwaukee art museum, mam, dan keegan, technology

Arts & Entertainment - June 14, 2008
Brace yourself for Gilbert & George's bold world
Gilbert & George describe themselves as "two people, one artist." The British artists -- we'll use the plural here to avoid confusion -- met at St. Martins School of Art in London in 1967 and have been together, personally, professionally and artistically, ever since.
Tags: gilbert & george, tate modern, living sculpture, mam

Travel & Visitors Guide - May 27, 2008
Tourists in our own town
On Saturday, we took a family trip to Veteran's Park at the lakefront and we spent a day like tourists in our own town.
Tags: MAM, lakefront, bike rental, kites, Discovery World

Travel & Visitors Guide - April 14, 2008
MAM brochures tighten visitor focus
These brochures, written by a freelance writer along with the museum's Education Department in 2006 and 2007, come in five flavors: "Impress the Out-of-Towners," "I'm un a Hurry!," You Think You're Having a Bad Day," "The Blues" and "Naughty Bits."
Tags: Barbara Brown Lee, Eding, MAM, Naughty Bits, Nardo di Cione

Arts & Entertainment - Feb. 12, 2008
"Foto" captures adventurous spirit of European photographers
It's refreshing to see an exhibition -- nay, a fine exhibition -- of 20th century photography and see very few recognizable names and very few "landmark" images.
Tags: MAM, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, Calatrava, Martin Ramirez, Evzen Markalous, Jaromir Funke, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Leni Riefenstahl, Martin Munkacsi