You’re standing inside a giant kaleidoscope. The year is 2004, and the site is the Milwaukee Art Museum where you’ve come to indulge yourself (through June 20) in 200-plus items comprising “American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840.”…
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Book Review: Banana Republicans
There’s a This Modern World cartoon on the front cover of Banana Republicans and chapter titles like “Pumping Irony,” but it’s not a remotely funny book. Perhaps it was intended to be so, but its authors ended up on quite a different track…
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Spin City
The final issue of Art Muscle magazine was published in the summer of 1997. As publisher/editor, I made the decision to devote our farewell to the “art of criticism.” Four well-known writers were given space to correct the common misunderstanding of the word “criticism,” i.e. that it does not mean to hammer an artist relentlessly…
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Walker’s Pre-Election Pension Pass: Journal Sentinel Misfires
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s belated, post-election reporting on County Executive Scott Walker’s broken promise to stop huge pension payouts for county managers left the paper trying to explain away the obvious: the JS blew it.
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Spin City
by Judith Ann Moriarty
“Movers and shakers on the local arts scene.” What does that mean? Are they the 35 who attended a panel discussion/luncheon way back in the spring of 2003 at the esteemed Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette’s campus?
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