Art

Conscious Spaces: Intentional art
Conscious Spaces

Intentional art

Art is energy and intent given shape.

Sixteen Blocks & What Have You Got?

Sixteen Blocks & What Have You Got?

Notes and observations on the In:Site Park East Corridor Project

Tableclothes, Tea and Take-out at Dean Jensen and WPCA

Tableclothes, Tea and Take-out at Dean Jensen and WPCA

Commentaries on culture and impermanence run deep in two current gallery shows: Susanna Raab at Dean Jensen and Decorative Directive (closes this Saturday) at Walker's Point Center for the Arts.

Artist Roy Staab’s Swags in the Woods

Artist Roy Staab’s Swags in the Woods

Milwaukee artist Roy Staab festoons the Urban Ecology Center's woodsy amphitheater in Riverside Park.

Reviewed: Fumes at Green Gallery East
Reviewed

Fumes at Green Gallery East

Jittery, nerved-up new paintings by local artist Peter Barrickman at the mod pizza parlor-cum-East Side art gallery.

Summer travel: Artful destinations
Summer travel

Artful destinations

Get out of town for must-see modern and contemporary art shows in Madison, Sheboygan and West Bend

Great American Kitchens at MIAD

Great American Kitchens at MIAD

Kitchens have become the most glamorous, expensive spaces in American homes. MIAD surveys a century of them.

Summer reading: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Summer reading

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Why would you read a book about work, of all things, during the dog days of summer? Alain de Botton's latest collection of essays is surprisingly gracious, entertaining and lovely to look at. That's why.

Photo Gallery: Summer Gallery Night
Photo Gallery

Summer Gallery Night

Gallery Night: out and about at the Portrait Society Gallery, Pritzlaff Building, Dean Jensen, Gallery 218, Artasia, Tory Folliard and the Petullo Collection.

GALLERY NIGHT: Rest your eyes this week. You’ll need them.
GALLERY NIGHT

Rest your eyes this week. You’ll need them.

A summer bumper crop of intriguing shows and promising installations in an art corridor that runs from the East Side down to Bay View.

VIDEO: An interview with Roy Staab
VIDEO

An interview with Roy Staab

Discussed: being broke in Paris early, how installation art is like a dance, working like a scientist, structuration and figuration, and the one question interviewers should never ask him.

Photo Gallery: A Night at the Circus
Photo Gallery

A Night at the Circus

It may just be a boutique festival circus attached to a much larger parade, but on a cool summer night at Milwaukee's lakefront -- it's pure magic.