{"id":2978,"date":"2012-06-18T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2012-06-18T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:47:56","slug":"mam-after-dark-cancan-happening-friday-june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2012\/06\/mam-after-dark-cancan-happening-friday-june-22\/","title":{"rendered":"MAM After Dark: Cancan happening Friday, June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MAM After Dark returns Friday, June 22<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Celebrate all-things-French with a night of cancan, burlesque, and<\/em> Posters of Paris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong> \u2013 MAM After Dark celebrates the opening of the Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s newest exhibiton, <em><a title=\"Posters of Paris homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/posters-of-paris\" target=\"_blank\">Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries<\/a><\/em> on Friday, June 22 with <a title=\"MAM After Dark: Cancan\" href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/afterdark\/mam-after-dark-can-can\/\" target=\"_blank\">MAM After Dark: Cancan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The evening includes live outdoor music by <a title=\"Milwaukee Hot Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gigmasters.com\/gypsy-band\/Milwaukee-Hot-Club\/\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Hot Club<\/a> and indoor tunes with <a title=\"OnMilwaukee.com\" href=\"http:\/\/onmilwaukee.com\/bars\/articles\/whyb.html\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Why-B<\/a>, food by <a title=\"Coquette Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.coquettecafe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coquette Caf\u00e9<\/a>, complimentary wine tastings by Caf\u00e9 Calatrava, and live cancan dancing by <a title=\"Gypsy Moon Dance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gypsymoondance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gypsy Moon Dance<\/a>. The featured performers for the evening are the <a title=\"Brew City Bombshells Burlesque\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Brew-City-Bombshells-Burlesque\/181919585176781\" target=\"_blank\">Brew City Bombshells Burlesque<\/a> dancers, who take the stage at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the special events for the evening, MAM After Dark will again feature the Photo Booth, DIY Studio, and a curator-led tour of <em>Posters of Paris<\/em> at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cancan homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mam.org\/afterdark\" target=\"_blank\">MAM After Dark: Cancan<\/a> runs 5 p.m. to midnight on Friday, June 22, 2011. Admission is $12 at the door or $6 in advance at <a title=\"Buy tickets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.museumtix.com\/ticket\/ord_eventcat.aspx?vid=774&amp;pid=5863010&amp;eid=10413527&amp;evd=6%2f22%2f2012&amp;evt=17%3a00%3a00&amp;pvt=mlwk\" target=\"_blank\">mam.org\/afterdark<\/a>. Museum members are free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE MUSEUM<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 30,000 works spanning antiquity to the present day. With a history dating back to 1888, the Museum houses a collection with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and folk and self-taught art. The Museum includes the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion, named by Time magazine as \u201cBest Design of 2001.\u201d For more information, please visit www.mam.org.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAM After Dark returns Friday, June 22 Celebrate all-things-French with a night of cancan, burlesque, and Posters of Paris Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 MAM After Dark celebrates the opening of the Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s newest exhibiton, Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries on Friday, June 22 with MAM After Dark: Cancan. The evening includes live <a href=\"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/2012\/06\/mam-after-dark-cancan-happening-friday-june-22\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  MAM After Dark: Cancan happening Friday, June 22<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}