New York City artist Fred Wilson<\/strong>‘s captivating installations have fueled a heated national conversation about the display of history and objects. Come hear this pioneering figure reflect on his career and offer his take on the Milwaukee Art Museum’s new American Collections Galleries. The Milwaukee Art Museum’s American Collections Galleries have been comprehensively reinstalled. Five distinct installations now present historic objects and paintings in ways that promise to inspire a modern-day wonder about art and design.<\/p>\n Reception<\/strong> | 5:30 p.m. | Baumgartner Galleria Lecture<\/strong> | 6:15 p.m. | Lubar Auditorium The American Collections Galleries are supported by the Chipstone Foundation and\u00a0the ABOUT FRED WILSON New York City artist Fred Wilson‘s captivating installations have fueled a heated national conversation about the display of history and objects. Come hear this pioneering figure reflect on his career and offer his take on the Milwaukee Art Museum’s new American Collections Galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mam.org\/info\/pressroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nTHE AMERICAN COLLECTIONS
\n<\/strong>Grand Opening | October 23, 2008<\/p>\n
\nHors d’oeuvres, wine and cash bar
\nFree with general admission
\nSponsored by the Collectors’ Corner<\/em><\/p>\n
\n“The Silent Message of the Museum” by Fred Wilson
\nFree with general admission
\nCo-sponsored by the American Heritage Society<\/strong> and the
\nFaith and Willard F. <\/strong><\/em>Henoch Acquisition and Program Fund<\/strong> of the Layton Art Collection<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRichard C. von Hess Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
\nBorn in the Bronx in 1954, Fred Wilson received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2003. His groundbreaking exhibit “Mining the Museum” (1992) transformed the Baltimore Historical Society’s collection and started a national discussion about the display of history and its objects.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"