\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Milwaukee, Wis. <\/strong>\u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum will host a panel discussion on contemporary art and political topics on Thursday, July 7 at 6:15 p.m. in Lubar Auditorium.<\/p>\n Join Melissa Chiu from the Asia Society, New York, and Kathryn Kanjo from the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, among other panelists, as they discuss issues surrounding art and politics, including the recent detention and release of contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is part of our mission to educate and inspire the community, and it is our role to foster dialogue around all art-related issues, including contemporary art,\u201d said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. \u201cI encourage people to come and participate in the discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAi Weiwei: The Collision of Art and Politics\u201d is free to the public, and falls on Target Free First Thursday, when admission to the Museum is free for individuals.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM<\/strong> ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Milwaukee Art Museum to host panel on the politics of art \u00a0 Milwaukee, Wis. \u2013 The Milwaukee Art Museum will host a panel discussion on contemporary art and political topics on Thursday, July 7 at 6:15 p.m. in Lubar Auditorium. Join Melissa Chiu from the Asia Society, New York, and Kathryn Kanjo from the Museum … Milwaukee Art Museum to host July 7 panel on the politics of art<\/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-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s far-reaching holdings include more than 25,000 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n