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Diverse Voices – Gathering in the Wild



Jeff Filipiak reviews this recent exhibition at the Urban Ecology Center,
featuring works derived from and focusing on nature.
Sally Kuzma: Seed Cycles at Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum

Debra Brehmer reviews the work of Kuzma, rooted in her explorations of the
Iowa landscape.
The Path of Discovery: The Christine LaJoice Collection of Bernhard
Schneider Photographs

Assistant Director of the Museum of Wisconsin Art, Graeme Reid, reveals the
fascinating story that lead to the exhibition of these photographs, and
examines clues left for us about the work of photographers in late-nineteenth
century Milwaukee.
Dark Fair at the Swiss
Institute, New York.  

Noah Friedman reviews this
recent art fair produced by
Milwaukee International.
Drop to your knees: John Singer
Sargent's The Daughters of Edward
Darley Boit

Drop to your Knees is a new periodic
column where readers share their
personal relationships with works of art
that have made an impact in their lives.

Laura Baldus Murphy shares her
profound reactions to this enigmatic
portrait.
Environmental historian Jeff
Filipiak reviews two current
exhibitions in Milwaukee, each
with conscious messages about
the natural environment:


Seeing Green: Art, Ecology and
Activism at Woodland Pattern
Book Center







MIAD Senior Exhibition 2008
Milwaukee Institute of Art and
Design
OPEN / CLOSE
a scattering of openings, closings, and other
things coming up...

OPENING
Friday May 2
Steve MacDonald & Rachel Budde at Paper Boat
Make Your Own History at the Blatz Building

Saturday May 3
Waukesha Art Crawl, downtown Waukesha, all over


CLOSING
Saturday May 3
Stretching the Truth at John Michael Kohler Art Center

Sunday May 4
Foto at Milwaukee Art Museum


OTHER THINGS COMING UP
Milwaukee International Art Fair, May 16-17

Join us for the next installment of art historical-ish
presentations at this diminutive east side
establishment.

Friday, May 23, 7:30pm.  
Lemon Lounge.
2884 N. Oakland Ave.,  414-908-0100

Professor Kenneth Bendiner from the UWM
Department of Art History will speak about Edouard
Manet's iconic painting
Bar at the Folies-Bergère.  
(Free lecture, 21-and-over please).
REVIEWS AND ESSAYS