County Arts Funding Up in the Air After Committee Reconsiders Cuts, Allocation
Many local arts groups were expecting thousands of dollars next month before a county committee voted to re-examine who gets what.
Is There Any Hope for More State Funding for the Arts in Wisconsin?
With more funding challenges than ever, some arts advocates look to the state of Wisconsin for help. Will it ever come?
What Will Ease Milwaukee’s Arts Funding Crisis? Collaboration, Leaders Say
A recent Greater Milwaukee Committee panel discussion continued the conversation looming over local arts.
Step into a Strange, Imaginative World at This Sheboygan Exhibit
Patricia Piccinini’s uncanny creatures inspire thoughts about our relationship with nature.
Your Guide to Summer Art
The next three months are filled with art galleries, exhibitions, markets and more.
Milwaukee Fall Arts Guide 2019: November
Newsies comes to town, Elf the Musical is here to entertain and more this month in fall arts.
‘Good People’ and ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’
Two big plays headline this week’s Friday Five.
Culture Jam MKE
Culture Jam MKE is the largest all-local gallery show this year, but it aims to be more than that. The exhibit, located at The Hide House (2625 S Greeley St.) challenges people to explore big issues in the world today. The exhibit has been in the works since November. Organizer and participating artist Jeff Redmon and a few others wanted a way to use art to impact the community. He reached out to artists he thought would fit the theme, and got a total of 40 artists to participate. “Really it’s just all about impact. It’s an interesting lineup of…
LFOA 2014
The art, the people, the wine.
Comic Eddie Izzard Dazzles
A figure, his back to the audience, slinks onto the stage inside the Pabst Theater. He’s clad in a black suit and hat and carries an umbrella the same color. The intro music blares. The stage lights bounce around the hall. The crowd goes bonkers. With Gene Kelly agility, the figure turns and pulls off his hat, tossing it to stage right. He lobs his umbrella to stage left. He smiles. Eddie Izzard, ladies and gentlemen. Over the course of two-plus hours on Tuesday night (one of two shows at the Pabst), the award-winning British comic and actor engages the…