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A BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE ARTS Volume 5, Issue 4 Complimentary MARCH 15/MAY 15,1991 Editor-in-Chief Debra Brehmer Associate Editor Calendar Editor Business Manager Mary Therese Gantz Associate Editor-Music f r m t h e editor Bobby DuPa Associate Editor Every artist, or art writer for that matter, should at least once in their lifetimes go through Nathan Guequierre the process of organizing an art exhibition. It's truly a learning experience to be on the other end of this business, as I recently discovered in organizing The Wood Show for Editorial Assistants Judith Ann Moriarty & Mark Bucher Metropolitan Gallery. The exhibition, which runs through March 20, celebrates Art Muscle's 5th (wood) anniversary a little prematurely. Our anniversary is actually in Photo Editor September. Besides the lengthy process of receiving and responding to slides for a group Francis Ford show, the actual installation of the work was far more labor-intense than I had thought. Design Although we expend huge amounts of energy every two months during Art Muscle's Chris Bleiler pasteup process, somehow I still wasn't prepared for the anxiety, doubts and excitement of putting up this show. At 7 p.m. opening night, after a momentary panic of affixing two Sales Angel French, Sales Manager final labels while people were walking in the door, things looked pretty good. Then, at 7:10 Lisa Mahan, Sales Representative p.m. just as I was relaxing a bit and grabbing my first glass of wine, one of the largest sculptures crashed to the floor. Hmmmm. We had wondered days earlier when a woodcut Printing by Port Publications sailed off the wall missing artist Mark Lawson's head by fractions of an inch, if one of the show's sculptures, carved out of ancient Malaysian mahogany, was emitting an evil FRIENDS OF ART MUSCLE influence in the gallery. But in both cases, structural problems in the art work caused the Perry & Bobbie Dinkin Ellen Checota mishaps and neither piece was damaged. The lesson to be learned from this: There's Barbara & Jack Recht Barbara Kohl-Spiro Jim Newhouse Thelma & Sheldon Friedman really nothing that provides a better perspective on one's state of being than stepping into Peter Goldberg Mary & Mark Timpany Theo Kitsch Dr. Clarence E. Kusik a new role. Also, being on the receiving end of a review rather than the giving end is Gerald Pelrine Tina Peterman Jay Brown Babcock Mechanical something all arts writers should endure at some point. I want to thank the artists involved Christine Prevetti Katie Minahan Richard & Marilyn Radke Richard Cler Dennis Hajewsky Patti Davis in the show and the Metropolitan Gallery owners, for this opportunity. Also, thanks to Harvey & Lynn Goldstein Robert A. Holzhauer Robert Johnston Gary T. Black Maggie Beal, Judith Moriarty, Therese Gantz, Bob DuPah, Julie and Johnnie, Carri Polly & Giles Daeger Joel & Mary Pfeiffer Judith Kuhn Nicholas Topping Skoczek and Frank Ford for all their help. Dorothy Brehmer C. Garrett Morriss Karen Johnson Boyd Geralyn Cannon Tim Holte/Debra Vest Roger Hyman Jack & Ellen Weller Dean Weller The next issue of Art Muscle, May 15 to July 15, will take on a sculpture focus for the first Arthur & Flora Cohen Remy Sandra Butler David & Madeleine Lubar time. The entire issue will be devoted to studio visits with Wisconsin sculptors, essays, and Jimmy G. Scharnek Sidney & Elaine Friedman Mike & Joyce Winter Carolyn & Leon Travanti articles looking at the state of the 3-D world. If you have any suggestions for the issue — Mary Joe Donovan James B. Chase Jerome J. Luy Cynthia Kahn Nate Holman Chris Baugniet sculptors we should know about, ideas for essays or features — please let us know. Call Patrick Farrell Riveredge Galleries Albert & Ann Deshur Bob Brue or write. Deadline for the issue is April 20. Pam Jacobs Jewelry Burt & Enid Dinkin Ginny & Gerry Robbins Ello & Guido Brink Taglin Enterprises/Access Milw James & Marie Seder Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops Randi & John Clark Robert E. Klavetter Keith M. Collis Linda Richman Jewelry Mary Paul On page 31 of this issue is a readers' survey. Because we haven't done a survey for three Richard Warzynski Joan Krause Janet Treacy Morton & Joyce Phillips years, your response is very important in helping us re-evaluate our demographics. Please Monica Cannon Haskell Delphine & John Cannon Jim & Julie Ansfield Daniel S. Weinberg take the time to fill out the form and mail it back to us. We also need to ask you to affix your Sharon L. 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All rights reserved, except COVER: Arthur Thrall, Newtonian, 1991. Arthur Thrall, Professor Emeritus at Law in reviews. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Art Muscle rence University, recently moved back to Milwaukee. "My continuing interest in written, is a trademark of Art Muscle-Milwaukee, Inc. printed and drawn forms led me to Sir Isaac Newton's drawings from the Principia, being Subscription rates in continental U.S.:$12 used in scholarly research by my friend, physicist Bruce Brackenridge. Newtonian one year; elsewhere, $16 one year. resulted from my free interpretation of the possibilities." 2 Art Muscle ...;,. ^gpilii ^ * ^^A~^^W^mm ^l m :- "•• p Dane LaF larding Stud! • arty Heavy Metal jequierre Essay ann filemyr mark bucher i^M^^J p a r t m e n t s AGOG Previews •m -II;. EarMuscle J Secondary Smoke*; Calendar if . nlar WIPP" dup Walk This Way t Museum donations down ernment censorship of the arts ("minimal $698,500 Museum Purchase Program. Also Rader-Shieber as its new Artistic Director. In October, the government amended its content restrictions") as it condemns the cancelled were grants for Redefining Mu Stephen Wadsworth and Francesca Zam- 1986 tax-code ruling on donations of all N EA for "bankrolling" a "former pornographic seum Direction ($525,000), Multimedia Arts bello, who have served as artistic directors forms of appreciated property, citing the movie star." The report claims the NEA is Organizations ($305,000), and miscellane since 1983, will continue as artistic advisors huge negative effect on gifts of objects to "bias against traditional art forms" having ous special project grants ($50,000). with the Skylight. Rader-Shieber previously museums. This gifts-deduction window is instead "consistently favored the avant-garde worked with the Pennsylvania Opera The planned only for tax year 1991, and will allow — defined by Webster's Third New Interna Milwaukee Tix opens atre. Archie Sarazin, who has been the top donors to claim tax deductions based on the tional Unabridged Dictionary as 'Those who The Milwaukee Tix Box Office will be fully administrator of the Performing Arts Center property's fair market value. According to a create, produce or apply new, original or operational by mid March at 510 W. Kilbourn for 17 years, will resign in May. A committee survey by the American Association of experimental ideas, designs, techniques.'" Avenue. Milwaukee Tix is a membership, will be formed to find a successor. Lori Museums, the value of objects donated to The report goes on to claim that "current non-profit organization. Tickets to nearly 20 Bechthold has been named fund develop museums fell to $60 million in 1989, from artists who produce representational art" arts and entertainment productions will be ment director for the Milwaukee Ballet. She $103.8 million in 1986, a decline of over 42 are routinely discriminated against by the available at this central box office. previously was employed by the United percent. Over the same period the number federal agency. Performing Arts Fund and more recently of objects donated was down 47 percent. worked for the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. The lack of tax incentives, coupled with high NEA budget cuts Roth opens exhibition space Gregory Blair has been hired by the Milwau auction prices, made it more lucrative for The National Endowment for the Arts is now Florine Roth, active on the Milwaukee art kee Ballet as director of audience develop collectors to sell works than to donate them undergoing transformations to comply with scene for 11 years, has opened a private ment. Mary Garity LaCharite has been hired to museums. (Excerpted from Artpaper). the agency's 1990 reauthorization legisla exhibition space on the first floor of The as director of design and publications at the tion. In trying to accommodate the required Mansion at 1237 N. Cass St. Viewing is by Milwaukee Art Museum. She previously was Heritage Foundation shift of federal monies to grants made di appointment. Call 347-1935. publications director at the Milwaukee Pub issues new NEA report rectly to states, a round of cuts and program lic Museum. Cheryl Ann Stidwell Parker of Ames, Iowa, has been named assistant di Censorship debates may have left the front eliminations have been necessary.