Copyright 2008  Art History Chicks LLC
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
ART HEADLINES
Some recent news items from major sources
online:

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at
82 - from New York Times (May 14, 2008)

A record for Bacon: Sotheby's Contemporary
Sale Smashes Records, from ArtInfo (May 15,
2008)





          


                        Francis Bacon, Triptych, 1976

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