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Milwaukee Art Museum to Light Iconic Calatrava-Designed Wings Pink

Milwaukee’s cultural icon shows support for breast cancer awareness in conjunction with premiere of Andy Warhol: The Last Decade

Milwaukee, Wis. – September 23, 2009 – Beginning this evening, the Milwaukee Art Museum, for the first time ever, will glow pink against the stunning backdrop of the September evening sky. The 10-day lighting project celebrates the opening of the Museum’s major fall exhibition, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade with a nod to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure at the Milwaukee lakefront on Sunday, September 27. With a 217-foot wingspan that opens and closes twice daily, the illuminated wings of the Quadracci Pavilion will offer an extraordinary spectacle along the city’s skyline. … Milwaukee Art Museum to Light Iconic Calatrava-Designed Wings Pink

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Milwaukee Art Museum organizes first U.S. museum exhibition of Warhol’s late works

-Andy Warhol: The Last Decade opens September 26; challenges preconceptions of the Pop icon-

Milwaukee, WI, August 5, 2009—This fall, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present the first U.S. museum exhibition to explore the work Andy Warhol produced during his late years. Organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade premieres in Milwaukee September 26, 2009 – January 3, 2010 before heading on national tour. Created amidst the bustle of Warhol’s Pop celebrity, the works on view illustrate as never before the artist’s vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation during the final years of his life.

… <i>Andy Warhol: The Last Decade</i> Opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum

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MILWAUKEE (July 27, 2009) – inPLAY EVENTS announces the return of the 2009 Milwaukee Wine Festival presented by Harris Bank to be held Aug. 21–22 on the grounds of the Milwaukee Art Museum. The two-day, outdoor event will provide festival-goers with an opportunity to sample more than 200 fine wines from around the globe in a relaxed setting along the shore of Lake Michigan, with a beautiful view of the Milwaukee Art Museum and its Santiago Calatrava–designed Quadracci Pavilion. … Harris Bank Presents The 2009 Milwaukee Wine Festival AUG. 21–22

Milwaukee, WI, July 12, 2009—The Milwaukee Art Museum will present Raphael: The Woman with the Veil in a one-work masterpiece exhibition March 27–June 6, 2010. The oil on canvas painting, completed ca. 1516, will be on loan from the Medici collection of the Palatine Gallery, Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy and is the result of more than a year of negotiations. The work will leave the United States indefinitely after the exhibition closes on June 6. … Museum Announces Exhibition of Raphael’s High Renaissance Masterpiece

All exhibitions and dates are subject to change; please call 4-224-3246 or e-mail jonas.wittke@mam.org to verify before publication. Images available upon request. … Advanced Exhibition Schedule as of July 2009

Milwaukee, WI, June 20—More than170 artists vied for top spots at the 47th annual Lakefront Festival of Arts (LFOA), one of the premier juried art festivals in the country. Winners were announced at this morning’s annual Saturday awards breakfast. … Winners of 2009 Lakefront Festival of Arts Announced

Milwaukee, WI, March 6—From three outstanding public collections of their work, more than eighty paintings by the group of American artists dubbed The Eight—Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan—are joined together for the first time in The Eight and American Modernisms, on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6–August 23, 2009. … Milwaukee Art Museum Presents <i>The Eight and American Modernisms</i>

Milwaukee, WI, March 6—The first major exhibition of furniture and decorative art by the protean American craftsman and designer Charles Rohlfs begins its five-venue national tour at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6–August 23, 2009. The product of an innovative three-institution partnership, the exhibition’s scholarship is based on the Rohlfs family archives and newly discovered period sources, and brings together over forty pieces from ten museums and several private collections. The exhibition’s tour concludes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 2010. … <i>The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs</i> Opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, WI, March 16—The words and faces of forty students make up a penetrating view into contemporary American youth in Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey, on view April 16–July 12, 2009 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. A compelling juxtaposition of first- and third-person perspectives, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue challenge teenage stereotypes as they present a highly diverse portrait of a generation. The occasion brings Bey to the Museum for an artist talk and reception on Thursday, April 23, 2009. … <i>Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey</i> at the Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, WI, April 9, 2009—Over 11,500 people visited the visited the Milwaukee Art Museum during the Second Annual Art in Bloom exhibition, April 2-5, 2009. Presented by the Museum’s Garden Club and sponsored by the Wisconsin Energy Foundation, Art in Bloom also included lectures and workshops with celebrity floral designers and master gardeners, book signings, plein air painters, a multi-vendor indoor marketplace, a garden sculpture sale, and floral-inspired dining in the Café Calatrava Garden Room. … Museum Announces Art in Bloom Award Winners

Milwaukee, WI, February 11—Celebrating springtime April 2-5, 2009, Art In Bloom showcases the talents of more than 40 renowned floral designers interpreting masterworks from the Museum’s Collection. This year’s expanded exhibition also includes lectures and workshops with celebrity floral designers and master gardeners, book signings, plein air painters, a multi-vendor indoor marketplace, a garden sculpture sale, and floral-inspired dining in the Café Calatrava Garden Room. Guests can rub elbows with participating experts while supporting the Museum at the Cocktails and Blooms After Hours gathering on Friday, April 3. … MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM PRESENTS 2nd ANNUAL ART IN BLOOM

The Milwaukee Art Museum is pleased to present a chronology covering the lives and careers of The Eight:
Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan. The timeline is adapted from The Eight and American Modernisms exhibition catalogue, available at the Milwaukee Art Museum Store ($29.95/$26.95 Member): 414-224-3210 or www.mam.org/store. The exhibition will be on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum June 6–August 23, 2009

Milwaukee, WI—
The Milwaukee Art Museum has announced that the Dutch master Jan Lievens used Rembrandt van Rijn as a model in four works painted over approximately six years between c. 1623 and 1628.Highlighting the close working relationship between the artists, three of the paintings can be seen in Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow at the Museum February 7–April 26. … EARLIEST KNOWN PORTRAIT OF REMBRANDT AT MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM

One of the world’s foremost experts on Dutch art, Walter Liedtke will talk about the difficulties of untangling the attribution of works to Rembrandt and his followers, many of whom worked in a style that closely imitated the master’s. … Metropolitan Museum Curator of Northern Baroque Art Visits the Museum Thursday

iona rozeal brown talks about her artistic influences and her painting sacrifice, on view in the Museum’s New Acquisitions and Rotations Gallery, on Thursday, March 5, at 6:15 p.m. The lecture in Lubar Auditorium is free with Museum admission. … Artist iona rozeal brown Lectures at the Milwaukee Art Museum Thursday

MILWAUKEE, WI—Three midwestern artists explore the dreams, fantasies, and memories that people project onto material objects in Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past, on view February 12–June 7 in the Decorative Arts gallery at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Beth Lipman, Sarah Lindley, and BA Harrington breathe life into historic forms through their new work, collectively raising questions about the lingering lifecycle and hidden meanings of things in our homes. The occasion brings the artists to the Museum for an
opening night roundtable on Thursday, February 12. … The Museum Presents <i>Remains: Contemporary Artists and the Material Past</i>

Milwaukee, WI, February 12, 2009—
The Milwaukee Art Museum’s Café Calatrava will travel to New York City to serve a five-course dinner on Valentine’s Day at the renowned James Beard House in Greenwich Village. The menu and beverage pairings designed for the occasion celebrate American culinary diversity with ingredients such as Door County cherries and Hudson Valley foie gras. Executive Chef Chris Hatleli, Chef de Cuisine Nick Burki, and Café Calatrava Food & Beverage Director David Jones lead the team, which served the menu to Museum supporters at a special rehearsal dinner in Milwaukee on January 10. … CAFÉ CALATRAVA TO SERVE VALENTINE’S DINNER AT JAMES BEARD HOUSE

Milwaukee, WI, February 2—The Milwaukee Art Museum’s new Speakers Bureau is an outreach program that engages audiences in conversation about the enriching art experiences at the Museum. Specially trained Museum docents are prepared to visit locations in the community and deliver a rich, hourlong audio-visual presentation on the feature exhibition. The Museum is launching this new program in conjunction with the exhibition
Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered, on view at the Museum February 7-April 26, 2009. … Milwaukee Art Museum Launches Free Speakers Bureau for Feature Exhibitions

The Milwaukee Art Museum is pleased to provide the text from interpretive panels in the Museum’s presentation of Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow, on view February 7-April 26, 2009. The texts made available here through the website are ordered to correspond with the flow of the exhibition from its beginning to conclusion. The Museum has also produced an audio tour in conjunction with the exhibition, featuring a conversation between curators Laurie Winters and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.  For more information, visit www.mam.org/lievens

Milwaukee, WI, January 26, 2009—The Milwaukee Art Museum has appointed Brady Roberts as Chief Curator, announced Museum Director Daniel Keegan today. Roberts will assume his position on March 2, 2009. … MUSEUM ANNOUNCES NEW CHIEF CURATOR AND NEW DIRECTOR OF EXHIBITIONS

Milwaukee, WI, October 30, 2008—The first U.S. exhibition of the work of Jan Lievens (1607–1674), one of the great Dutch artists of the 17th century, will be on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum February 7–April 26, 2009. Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow challenges the artist’s place in art history, calling into question why the artist has only been studied in the shade of his more famous contemporary, Rembrandt van Rijn. … Milwaukee Art Museum Presents <i>Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow</i>

Milwaukee, WI, January 27—A total of 347 outstanding works by Wisconsin students grades 7-12 comprise the Wisconsin Regional—one of 67 art regionals held across the country—of the annual Scholastic Art Awards exhibition.  The exhibition is on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum January 31-March 8.  … Museum Exhibition Features Outstanding Student Artwork

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Richard Rhodes is author of the acclaimed biography John James Audubon (Random House, 2004). … Pulitzer Prize-winning Biographer Presents <i>Audubon in the American Wilderness</i> January 22

October 31, 2008—The Milwaukee Art Museum is pleased to present this comprehensive timeline exploring the intertwining lives and careers of two Dutch Masters. Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered is on view at the Museum February 7–April 26, 2009.

Milwaukee, WI, January 7, 2009—The Milwaukee Art Museum announces new hours and pricing for the new year. New hours begin January 12; new all-access single-ticket admission starts Saturday, February 7. … New Hours and Admission Price at the Milwaukee Art Museum