Author: Staff

A new three-part exhibition series at the Milwaukee Art Museum seeks to relate the Museum’s collection to historical events that have contemporary resonance, while reflecting on the institution’s own past and collecting history. Opening July 15, 2021, American Memory: Commemoration, Nostalgia, and Revision explores and reveals the selective editing of historical narratives in America’s past through drawings, prints, and paintings from the Museum’s collection. Though well known by many, historical narratives are often told from a single perspective. Incidents that have especially involved or impacted women, people of color and the LGBTQI+ community have frequently been ignored, skewed or...

The work of some of Japan’s most important artists of the last 100 years will be on display in Milwaukee at Art Japan: 2021-1921, a new exhibition drawn from the collection of The Warehouse that will run from July 9 until September 24. With over 80 works in the exhibition from 18 artists, the art, ideas, and studio practice of each artist will be shown in depth through several works. The exhibition includes painting, drawing, modern and contemporary prints, silver and gold leaf constructions, as well as ceramics, basketry, textiles and recently acquired fiber art. The exhibition leans toward...