WISCONSIN's ART HISTORY the Art Museum Celebrates 100 Years of Wisconsin Art
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Editor-in-Chief Debra Brehmer Associate Editor Calendar Editor Business Manager Therese Gantz Associate Editor-Music From the Editor BobbyDuPah Associate Editor Nathan Guequierre With this issue, Art Muscle celebrates its 2nd 2nd anniversary and we've only begun tapping Photo Editor anniversary. And no, I won't say anything about into its intriguing, yet still mysterious design ca Francis Ford growing pains and two year olds and all that. I'll pabilities. just say that I hope the magazine will continue to grow so we can expand the depth and detail of We invite you to help celebrate the anniversary Art Direction our coverage. by attending the A rf Muscle exhibition and party Barb Paulini from 7 p.m. to ? on Friday, October 7. The celebra We hope that in the past two years, Art Muscle tion will take place in the Art Muscle Ballroom at has helped define Milwaukee's art community 909 W. National Avenue, with live music and Sales Representatives and put us all closer in touch with one another. It short performances by Foothold Dance Collec is important for artists to feel a sense of commu tive, Wild Space Dance Company and Rip Tenor. Lisa Mohan, Sam Woodburn &Kathy Corbin nity and it's important for the public to feel tuned in to the thoughts and motivations of artists. Thanks to all our advertisers for two great years. Printing by Citizen Publishing Also thanks to our freelancers, families, friends So what's ahead? In the upcoming year, we plan and our subscribers. If you enjoy Art Muscle, FRIENDS OF ART MUSCLE to rearrange our format somewhat and add some there's one little thing that you could do that has new features, expand the "opportunities" sec a far greater impact than you could ever imagine: Perry & Bobbie Dinkin Ellen Checota tion, which provides artists with exhibition and Subscribe. A growing body of subscribers dem Barbara & Jack Recht Barbara Kohl-Spiro Jim Newhouse Thelma Friedman competition information, enlarge the Madison onstrates a willingness to participate in and sup Peter Goldberg Mary & Mark Timpany and Chicago calendars and possibly give each a port the magazine and the arts in Wisconsin. Theo Kitsch Dr. Clarence E. Kusik page of reviews and previews, distribute the Also, it makes us feel good when we get the Gerald Pelrine Tina Peterman magazine statewide and possibly nationally, make morning mail. Jay Brown Babcock Mechanical Christine Prevetti Katie Minahan more money to pay a real staff and attract new Richard & Marilyn Radke talent (writers, photographers, designers). The Dennis Hajewsky look of the magazine also may change. We gave Debra Brehmer Harvey & Lynn Goldstein Editor-in-Chief Robert Johnston ourselves a Macintosh and laserprinter for our Polly & Giles Daeger Judith Kuhn Dorothy Brehmer Karen Johnson Boyd Tim Holte/Debra Vest Jack & Ellen Welier Arthur & Flora Cohen Sandra Butler Jimmy G. Scharnek Sidney & Elaine Friedman To become a FRIEND OF ART MUSCLE, send a check for $50 which entitles you to receive Art Muscle for 5 years. Art Muscle is published bi-monthly by Art Muscle-Milwaukee, Inc., 909 W. National Ave., P.O. Box 93219, Milwaukee, Wl 53203. Third Class postage paid at Milwaukee, Wl 53202 and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Art Muscle, P.O. Box 93219, Milwaukee, Wl 53203. Entire contents copyright © Art Muscle- Milwaukee, Inc. All rights reserved, except in reviews. Reproduction in whole or part without permission is prohibited. Art Muscle ON THE COVER: is a trademark of Art Muscle-Milwaukee, Inc. Hilary Goldblatt, detail from His Master's Voice, 1988. Subscriptions rates in continental U.S.: $12 Hilary Goldblatt is a Milwaukee artist. one year; elsewhere, $16 one year. 2 Art Muscle Art Musde O N N T LOFTS 19 Debra Brehmer & Cynthia Crigler ALICIA CZECHOWSKI 26 Jerome Schultz THEATRE X 30 Debra Vest WISCONSIN ART 32 KitBasquin DEPARTMENTS AGOG 6 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 7 POST FACTO - REVIEWS 10 BEYOND VIDEO CLONE 14 EAR MUSCLE 15 PERFORMANCE FUTURES 16 LINEAR B 17 CALENDAR 35 U//l± / \UA ADVERTISE! call (414)672-8485 BACK THROUGH MILWAUKEE ART THE DISTANCE MUSEUM P.S. 122 FIELD TRIP )RMANCE ART^ - .E ":5 :;AT?v e~";:If r:::;: • re"o e: ";:;,:'W>Ml,)f.-Ill-e.;::• :ll|fi-||;: at the current wor sprawls and lunge ISHMAEL HOU beautiful and movement; pL choreogr •mSlKi f'-i- jseum Shop jrs) Doks 8 PM Downer Ave. :ets: UMCE DANCE FACTORY FACTORY inia Ave. $7, $ um members 1 W. Virginia Ave. PERF /ART 1988 is Friday, September 23rd at 8:00 pm m funded by the National Saturday, September 24th at 8:00 pm Endowm the Arts Performing Arts Center, Vogel Hall INFORM* 414,271.9508 sMywlSelii" Art Museum 51) Main floor - $8.00 / Balcony - $5.00 (PAC Box Office 273-7206) Made possible through grants from The National Endowment for the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board, 750 N. Lincoln Memorial Dr., Milwaukee, Wl 53202 414:271.9508 Milwaukee County, The Kohier Foundation, and The Bradley Foundation 4 Art Muscle Milwaukee Chamber Theatre presents AGOG A rts seum of Art in San Jose, Calif. Individual artists' John Waters Mini-Retrospective and Classics. Admission is $2 at the door.) fellowships proposed bringing Waters here to lecture at 7 p.m. Malcolm Morrison, director of the Na Artists are encouraged to attend a meet Friday, Oct. 14. Waters is the bad-boy Art tours tional Theatre Conservatory and the ing at 3 p.m. Sept. 20 in room 201 of the director of Desperate Living, Mondo Tours D-Art will offer trips to the Art Denver Center Theatre Company in County Courthouse to voice support for Trasho, Pink Flamingos, and most Institute of Chicago's The Art of Paul Colorado, has been hired as director of county funding of individual artists' fel recently, Hair Spray. He made Divine Gauguin exhibition on Saturday, Sept. UWM's professional theater training lowships. In last year's budget, all fund famous. Waters' films will be shown Oct. 24 and Saturday, Dec. 10. Cost is $48 program. The program's former director, ing for individual artists ($30,000) was 14 through 16. Then, the new Primal which includes transportation, exhibi Sanford Robbins vacated the position cut. This year, a group of administrators Screen series initiated last April by Great tion admission with an audio tour and due to monetary squabbles and now and artists including Tom Bamberger, Jill Lakes Film and Video presents a Bergman lunch. Call Karen Kane at 332-3346 for heads a training program in Delaware. Sebastian and Susan Engberg have de series, including Smiles of a Summer reservations and departure times, etc. Morrison will join the UWM faculty full- veloped a proposal calling for $50,000 to Night on Oct. 9, The Seventh Seal on Oct. time in January. A new Professional be awarded a ten $5,000 fellowships to 23, Wild Strawberries on Nov. 6, The Theater Training Program class is sched individual artists in all media, including Virgin Spring on Nov. 20 and The Devil's Architecture lecture uled to start in the fall 1989 semester. performance. The fellowships would be Eye on Dec. 11. If this isn't good enough, The Architecture of Desire, a free lecture based solely on quality of current work, there's also a European Community Film by Professor Don Hanlon of the UWM and would be decided on by a panel of Festival with one current feature length School of Architecture and Urban Plan Art auction artists. During the September 20 meet film from each of 12 countries to be ning, will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 20 in UWM's The Milwaukee Art Museum's Contem ing, CAMP AC (the Cultural, Artistic, Music shown nightly Sept. 17 through Sept. 28. Golda Meir Library, 4th floor conference porary Art Society will hold its 2nd an Programming Advisory Committee), For ticket prices and more information center. Hanlon will discuss why Mod nual Art Auction fund-raiser on Satur which makes budget recommendations call the Union Cinema at 229-4070 or ernism and Post-Modernism have failed day, Oct. 15. Tickets are $150 (you heard to the county, will approve or reject the Great Lakes Film and Video at 229-3906. in achieving a truly humanist architec right). Up for bidding will be works by proposal. By attending the meeting, (Also of interest: The Gallery Cinema, ture. Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Joseph artists will reflect their support of the 2901 S. Delaware Ave., will be showing Beuys, Borofsky, Dubuffet, Fischl, Frank- proposal. Thin Man films at 1:15 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday the Personnel news enthaler, Katz, Jasper Johns, Annie Leibo- vitz and many, many more. The work John Waters coming month of October. An Asta look-alike I. Michael Danoff, former director of the will be on view to preview Oct. 7 through to Milwaukee and more contest will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. Milwaukee Art Museum, and most re Oct. 15 in the South Entrance Gallery The University of Milwaukee's Union 4. All wire-haired terriers are invited. cently director of Chicago's Museum of (and that's free). Call 271-9508 for infor Cinema program has really done it this Screenings will be introduced by Dale Contemporary Art, has taken a new mation about the auction. year. First of all, they are sponsoring a Kunt2, president of Milwaukee Film position as director of the San Jose Mu Grant s Brozek gets fellowship include Susan Ginalick Maakestad of Art Matters Inc. dation, 342 Madison Ave., Suite 1702, Jim Brozek, a Milwaukee photographer, Ladysmith (represented locally by Dean Art Matters funds visual artists projects New York, NY 10173 212-949-6360.