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. Winderl Mary Streich Dori & Sam Chortek Dori & Sam Chortek own stamp, but we'll send you some coupons for a free drink and appetizer for your efforts Carole & Adam Glass Janet & Marvin Fishman

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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. In the rector at the West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts. pages, but they're far from over. The Heri­ visual arts, the largest reductions were made Personnel news In Minneapolis, Gary Garrels was named tage Foundation, a conservative Washing­ in some of the most popular programs: Stephen Fleischman has been hired as the senior curator at the Walker Art Center. He ton think-tank, recently issued a 27-page $1,764,000 from Museums (a 13.7 percent new director of the Madison Art Center. He is currently director of programs at the DIA report regarding the National Endowment cut), $775,000 from Visual Arts (12.7 per­ previously was Director of Program Plan­ Center for the Arts in New York. for the Arts that the LA. Times dubbed cent cut) and $500,000 from Folk Arts (15.2 ning at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. "stupefyingly dumb." The report backs gov­ percent cut). Totally eliminated was the The SkyJightOperaTheatre has named Chas

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Milwaukee Arts Board Arts Presenters. The prize was awarded for the endowment and operation of a new ects. The deadline is April 5. The Diverse High Impact Projects and Neighborhood Arts Arts Midwest's Minority Arts Administration museum building and sculpture garden. The Visions program is for artists who are at­ Programs grants are available through the Fellowship Program, created to address the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago tempting to explore the boundaries between Milwaukee Arts Board. Deadline is May 1. critical absence of persons of color from will open in its new location at the Chicago cultures, art disciplines or traditions in their High Impact Project grants provide funding senior management positions in thecountry's Avenue National Guard Armory in the spring work. While the program encourages ex­ for projects which help arts organizations arts organizations. The program selects up of 1995. perimentation and interdisciplinary work, in diversify their audiences, staffs, boards and to six candidates a year and places them in special circumstances innovative work in a programs. Neighborhood grants are to help senior level residencies with cultural institu­ UWM Filmmakers receive single discipline will be considered. Call (612) neighborhood organizations strengthen their tions nationally. Each fellow receives a nine- Wis. Arts Board grants 627-4444 for an application. work with local artists. Applications are month stipend of $18,000, travel and train­ Five of the seven grants awarded in this available by calling 223-5790. ing allowance and on-going support. The year's Media Arts Program have been re­ Motion Picture Academy scholarships Milwaukee Repertory Theater is one of the ceived by University of Wisconsin-Milwau­ EightUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee film Film/Video grants program's 1990-1991 host site assignments. kee Film Department faculty, staff andalumni. students received scholarships from The Film in the Cities, a regional media arts Asst. Prof. Debra Robinson received a Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci­ center based in St. Paul, will award more April 30 is the deadline for applications to Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship for contin­ ences. Graduate students Leah Gilliam and than $115,000 to independent film and video participate in this program. Contact Janis ued work on her feature film Kiss Grand- Aldis Strazdins each received $800 toward artists in five states including Wisconsin. Lane-Ewart for an application at (612) 341- mama Goodbye. Asst. Prof. Iverson White completion of their films. Dennis Dykstra, Deadline is May 9. To request application 0755. and alumna Claudia Looze both received Tanzy Falck, Tim Furdek, Mark Luedtke, materials call (612) 646-6104. New Works Awards. White is working on a Akihiro Miyashitaand Kirsten Stoltmann each Exhibition grants 16 mm motion picture entitled Magic Love. received $400 awards. Acacia Theatre grant Any non-profitmuseum, gallery, artists' space Looze has finished a script treatment for her Milwaukee's Acacia Theatre received a or art center in the country can receive new film Paulette. Assistant technical direc­ String Academy grant $5,000 grant from the Lynde and Harry matching grants of up to $1,000 for exhibi­ tor Bill Berens and Assoc. Prof. Dick Blau The String Academy of Wisconsin received Bradley Foundation for its new theatre at tions oracquisitionsof work by Arts Midwest's both received development grants. Beren's $2,000 from the Milwaukee Board of Real­ 3300 N. Sherman Boulevard. A $500 opera­ visual arts fellowship recipients. Now in its grant will support his audio work with Aqua tors Youth Foundation recently. The String tion grant from the Milwaukee Foundation second year, the Exhibition Assistance/ Velveeta. Blau will begin work on a short Academy is a pre-college music school. and a $1,000 grant from De Ranee Founda­ Midwest Acquisitions program makes video project about domestic life. tion toward student ticket prices were also $25,000 available annually. Call (612) 341- Trumpet Chair endowed received. 0755 for more information. Intermedia Arts The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra has Intermedia Arts will award $24,000 to Mid­ received a major gift to endow its Principal Arts Midwest receives Chicago's Contemporary Museum west artist through the Diverse Visions Trumpet Chair, held by Richard Metzger, award for minority program receives $37 million toward new building Regional Grants Program. Artists from seven from Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Robb, former Arts Midwest has won the 1990 Dawson The Trustees of the Museum of Contempo­ states including Wisconsin may apply for Milwaukee residents. Award from the Association of Performing rary Art have contributed over $37 million for grants of $500 to $5,000 for personal proj­

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Wisconsin Biennial Deadline is May 10. For information and ap­ artists are invited to display their work in the slides is March 20. Contact West Bend April 14 is the deadline for the 1991 Wiscon­ plication call Hermeine Ehlers (414) 782- new facility. Call 242-6633 to set up .an Gallery of Fine Arts, 300 S. 6th Ave., West sin Artists Biennial. Jurors are Holly Solo­ 8398 or the Neville Public Museum, (414) appointment. Viewing will be on March 22, Bend, WI 53095 for information. mon, director of Holly Solomon Gallery, New 448-4460. 23 and 24. York; Joel-Peter Witkin, photographer; and Summer art fairs Alice Aycock, sculptor. Contact Wisconsin Chorus/orchestra auditions Hair salon windows West Allis Art Alliance spring show, June 2. Artists Biennial, c/o WP&S, 341 N. Milwau­ Stars Productions will hold auditions March Malcolm of London hair salon seeks artists Deadline, April 10. Write PO Box 14574, kee St., Milwaukee, 53202 276-2650 for 19 and 20 for chorus members in the July to do window installations. Some budget West Allis, WI 53214 for information. information and prospectus. Music Under the Stars production of The provided. Contact Brian at 278-0990. Watertown's 27th Annual Outdoor Arts Music Man. Auditions will be in the Re­ Festival, July 28. Deadline, June 1. Contact: Lesbian/Gay Pride art test hearsal Hall of the Milwaukee Repertory Artreach artists Susan Morrone, Watertown Arts Council, In conjunction with the 1991 Pride Rally, a Theatre, 108 E. Wells. Call for an appoint­ Artreach Milwaukee is accepting applica­ PO Box 204, Watertown, 53094, (414) 261- juried fine art festival will be held on June 15. ment, 278-4389 on weekdays from 1 to 4 tions from free-lance artists to work with its 6868. Cardinal Stritch Mile of Art, Sept. 22. All gay and lesbian artists, as well as those p.m. Orchestra auditions for Music Man will in-facility programming. Professional artists Deadline March 30. Contact: Eileen Mil- artists supportive of the gay/lesbian commu­ be April 20 and 21. Call for an appointment. in all disciplines are invited to apply. Call lonzi, (414) 352-5400. Audubon Art Fair, nity are eligible. Deadline is April 30. Call 32- 271 -4704 for applications. April 15 deadline. June 1. Deadline April 1. Contact: Jim Gother, PRIDE for an application. Playwrights group 962-2742. UW-Parkside Arts and Crafts Playwrights are invited to join the Third Coast Eccola Festival, June 22-23. Deadline not given. Wauwatosa auditions Playwrights, an organization that critiques Eccola is looking for artists working in mixed- Contact: (414) 553-2457. Kohler Arts Auditions for the comedy George Washing­ works in progress on the second Thursday media/collage. Send slides with SASE to Center's Outdoor Arts Festival, July 20-21. ton Slept Were will be at 7 p.m. March 25 and of every month. Call 962-9990 for more Leon at Eccola, 241 N. Broadway, Milwau­ Deadline, April 15. Contact: (414)458-6144. 26 at 9508 Watertown Plank Rd., Plank information. kee, 53202. Road School auditorium. Male and female National craft show roles. Contact David Blank of the Wauwatosa Call for artists Docents needed Artists working in ceramic, fiber, metal, paper Playhouse, 744-8916, for more information. The Larson Gallery seeks slides from artists Artreach is looking for volunteers to docent and wood may enter Crafts National. Juried for possible representation. Send slides, for a new exhibit entitled 450 Years of the by slide. Deadline April 26. For prospectus Madison Union Galleries resume and SASE to Larson Gallery, 790 N. Human Face and Form that will be touring its send SASE to Crafts National 25, Zoller Regional artists in all media may apply for Jackson St., Milwaukee, WI 53202. No member facilities. Contact Cathreen Gallery, 102 Visual Arts Building, Penn State the 1991-92 exhibition season at the Univer­ deadline. Weissgerber at 271-4704. University, University Park, PA 16802. sity of Wisconsin-Madison Union Galleries. Submitten to 20 slides, statementand SASE. Scholarship auditions Evanston Art Center director National competition Contact Wisconsin Union Galleries, UW- The MacDowell Club of Milwaukee will hold The Evanston Art Center is seeking an Ariene Raven, art critic for the Village Voice Madison, 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI, its annual Scholarship Audition on Satur­ experienced Director to oversee daily op­ and New Art Examiner, will jury this national 53706, for more information. day, April 13 at the Wauwatosa Congrega­ erations at the art center school and galler­ competition. Deadline: April 15. For pro­ tional Church. Cash prizes will be awarded. ies. Position opens May 15. Submit cover spectus send SASE to: Phoenix Gallery, Film/video festival Vocalists between the ages of 20 and 30; letter, resume, salary and three references 568 Broadway, NYC, 10012. Great Lakes Film and Video is seeking new pianists, organists and instrumentalists ages by March 23 to: Search Committee, c/o Alice work for its 1991 film and video festival. I nde- 17 to 28 are eligible. Application deadline is Kreiman, 2505 McCormick, Evanston, IL, Women artists pendent media artists from Illinois, Indiana, March 30. Call Joan Parsley at 258-6133 for 60201. ARC Gallery in Chicago is seeking women Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wis­ information. artists doing experimental/innovative work consin are eligible. Work will be judged in Chicago gallery for membership. Send slides, resume and four categories: animation, documentary, Artists wanted Chiaroscuro, a contemporary retail art gal­ SASE to: 1040 W. Huron, Chicago, IL60622. experimental and narrative. April 10 is the A new gallery opening in the Wauwatosa lery in Chicago is looking for 2-D works, deadline. Entry forms may be obtained from Village seeks art work and fine crafts. Send functional and decorative ceramics, jewelry Printmaking exhibition Great Lakes Film and Video, PO Box 413, photos or slides to ArtEscape, 1510 Under­ and furniture. Send slides, SASE, price list The 11th Annual National Print Exhibition in Milwaukee, WI 53201. Call Jack Davidson, wood Ave., Wauwatosa, WI 53213 or call to Chiaroscuro, 750 N. Orleans, Chicago, IL Fort Wayne, IN. seeks work in all printmak­ 229-6971, for additional information. 774-7472 for an appointment. 60610, (312) 988-9253. ing media (no photography). Cash awards. For prospectus send SASE to ARTLINK, Wisconsin Women Biennial Wisconsin art wanted Slide review 1030 Broadway, Fort Wayne, IN 46802. Women artists in Wisconsin may enter for private dining room Over 20 of the state's leading art institutions Expressions and Commentary, Wisconsin Shully Catering in Thiensville is opening a will meet March 25 to 27 to review slides of Women in the Arts Biennial Exhibition. private dining room on March 18. 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In the isn't that someone we should know- stone dedicates his recent album of synthe­ Teri Garr (sighted at an art opening) and photographer Jim Brozek. Congratulations category: Bambi's partner in romance and sized music (Narada Records) to "Bob Re- Eddie Murphy (dancing at a Sunset club).. to Kris Franzke and Michael Kellog on the flight attendant, Nick Guigliatto, is working itman and Miss Yvonne." Does he mean One wonders, Hmmmmmm, if personnel birth of their brand new, bouncing, baby girl as a waiter at Kostas greek restaurant in the moi????. . .Former Milwaukee artist Mich­ employment surveys are becoming an artis­ Maggie... Prospect Mall. After the novice waiter re­ elle Grabner shows work this month at tic staple of the PAC's employment cently spilled a salad on a diner's coat, she Bienville Gallery in New Orleans and Mil­ agenda??? Sure am glad they don't have Miss Yvonne asked him "Don't I know you from some­ waukee realist painter Joel Jaecks is show­ them here! Oh yeah, good luck to Archie PS: We forgot the paparazzi photos this where?" He replied "You should. My photo's ing at Foxhall Gallery, New Mexico. Artist Sarazin in the near future! And good luck to month, but we will be out there snapping the been plastered all over the papers.".. .For­ Valerie Christeil has two drawings in a newlyweds, painter Pat Hidson and scene for the next issue!!! mer Theatre Tesseract artistic director Northern Indiana Arts Association juried Sharon McQueen is moonlighting as a life exhibition. David Holmes, UW-Parkside pro­ drawing class model at MIAD. . .In the na­ fessor, recently exhibited at the Selby Gal­ tional gossip network, architect Robert A.M. lery in Sarasota, FL. Kathy Keller, former Stern, who recently lectured in Milwaukee, International and Special Sales Manager at will be "changing the architectural language" Gareth Stevens (and an early Art Muscler), of Banana Republic's flagship store in Chi­ has started her own book-packaging com­ cago. Can't wait to see what he replaces the pany called Tiger Tiger. Another early Art jeeps and hay bales with. . .Wild man of Muscler and former Sentinel art critic, Frank theater Robert Wilson is working on The Lewis, is now working at Walker's Point Letter Black Rider, a musical comedy version of Center for the Arts. . .Teri Mitze of Great Weber's opera Der Freishutz in collabora­ American Children's Theatre, according to tion with rock composer Tom Waits and Variety and LA Times (although it hasn't writer William Burroughs. It will be produced been announced here) is moving to Los Clarifies Gossip item Moreover, peltings with wienies could not at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this spring. Angeles to assume the reigns of artistic George Meredith once called gossip "social have taken place, since they weren't even Talk about an all star lineup.. .Speaking of director of the Los Angeles Light Opera sewage." In the instance of a subject of the on the extensive menu. Perhaps your "sec­ collaborations, it looks like Theatre X will be Company, under the James Nederlander Gossip column in reference to Harry Quad- ondary source" was confused by the gigan­ working with Chicago imagist painter Ed Organization. Former Milwaukee actress, racci, president of Quad/Graphics, in the tic hamburgers used in the stage show. I'm Paschke on a future production. . .Artist Lynn Allen, (now Lynn Wilde) has moved to Jan. 15/March 15 issue of Art Muscle, it's ap­ enclosing our newsletter review of the holi­ Gary Wolfe, is collaborating with Mrs. Fun's Columbus, Ohio with Jim Zvanut to form propriate. day parties for your perusal. Connie Grauer on a performance piece The New World Theatre Company. They will March 29 at Melange. Wolfe will be painting stage their marriage vows this summer on Quad/Graphics threw 1990 holiday bashes - Leslie J. Ratay the restaurant's back wall. This will be no the grounds of the Timber Lake Playhouse - themed as Beach Balls - for more than Corporate Communications Manager slapdash sloshing of paint, but an orches­ in Illinois where Jim is artistic director.. 6,000 employees and their guests not just Quad/Graphics Inc. trated mural that will materialize to Connie's .Former Milwaukee photographer Raymond once, but five times: at MECCA in Milwau­ melodious tinkering. . .Alverno College's Kwan, now living in NYC, has been doing kee; in Lomira; Saratoga Springs, NY; Tho- Miss Yvonne responds: The "pelting"inci­ peripatetic Lisa James flys to Portugal this various freelance jobs including shooting maston, GA.; and Anaheim, CA. In an era dent could not be verified by press time. month to attend the Informal European cover images for porn videos. Look for the when it's rare to find a company where However one Quad employee at the party Theatre meeting as a representative of the Kwan style in your local video stores. there's a holiday party which employees do did say there "was an incident" involving a National Performing Network and Alverno. Meanwhile, in LA, former Milw. artist Irene not have to pay to attend, I'd hardly say that tipsy, ex-employee and a plate of food. My She'll be one of 12 Americans at the confer­ Adamczyk, although still looking for film the "recession took its toll." apologies to Harry for any inaccuracies. ence. . .Former Milwaukeean David Arken- work, has been making the scene along side How about in viting Miss Yvonne next time so we can get first-hand information! tK f If r*

17TH ANNUAL ART OF Harry Houdini, which featured an A COMMON THREAD LAST SUPPER AT elaborate museum-style display A Collaborative Installation TABLESETTINGS complete with antique handcuff napkin UNCLE TOM'S CABIN December 2,1990-February 10,1991 February 10-24 rings, a table graced with a strait jacket John Michael Kohler Arts Center Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co. Rahr-West Art Museum and a show poster-inspired Houdini February 13 painting. All in all, the exhibit is truly Pabst Theater unique among Wisconsin museum- -originated shows and a guaranteed No one seems to know how to classify crowd pleaser. Mark your calendar. Next Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co.'s work. year's exhibit will be worth the trip. Understandably so, as the performance ferome Schultz of Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Pabst (part of UWM's outstanding Great Artist Series) used an original LEXICAL OBELISK blend of dance, theater, mime and stunning visual imagery. Perhaps best Jesse Glass, Jr. classified as performance art, what really Cordelia Press 1990 distinguished the work was its commitment to innovative form and As the title of Milwaukee poet Jesse Maybe it's just that these are dark times, meaningful content — an unusual Glass, Jr.'s recent collection implies (and but A Common Thread at Sheboygan's combination these days. The thematic forewarns), Lexical Obelisk is a stroll Kohler Art Center is an uncanny mirror scope and ambition of the work was through a graveyard. Glass would have of the limited power of one, two or even magnificent — from slavery to huge us admire the tombstones and their three. Although the artists in this existential issues of faith. Although apocalyptic epitaphs, but in this site-specific installation try admirably to occasionally the form chosen was a bit cemetary the graves are shallow as fill the Center's huge central gallery, it 77m Woodcock/Jo Rochon. Madonna the 15th sloppy around the edges (music cues Photo by J. Shimon and J. Lindemann distracting hands, legs and the remains strangely empty, almost defiant between episodes seemed endless, occasional skull break the surface. I of their efforts. The vacant unreality of Chicago's Dinner Party and Schnabel's dancers sometimes spoke lines could elaborate by describing the the environment they have created is a plate paintings can't take the cake amateurishly), Jones' choreography was scavenging gulls circling overhead and perfect, although perhaps unintended, compared to the 50 dinner settings impressive — strongly angular and the thick smells on the wind, but it's visual expression of the theme that created by Manitowoc area residents for original — and the visual images enough to say Lexical Obelisk is unites them: the futility of kicking the Rahr-West Art Museum's 17th against the pricks. haunting. Annual Art of Tablesettings exhibition. relentless in its death imagery and unforgivingly dark and morose. This unique event, which is the The Kohler asked three artists, each Act I began with a play within a play. museum's highest-attended show, Doom and gloom aside, Glass exhibits a unfamiliar with the work of the others, Inside a small proscenium frame — features dining tableaus inspired by to collaborate on an installation. similar to an oversized puppet stage — works of art. talented poetic eye. At his best, Glass is capable of coaxing the reader into Wisconsin artist John Ford, Missourian the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin was relatively innocent scenes only to Kim Mosley and Chris Weaver of played out in pantomime, using This year's exhibition was an all-you- Louisiana each came to Sheboygan and African-inspired masks. Simultaneously, can-eat thematic buffet ranging from an systematically reveal underlying horrors. In "Gnosis M," a child's fear of holding a as work progressed, began to visually tie a silver-haired Harriet Beecher Stowe impoverished Christianity, overtly their individual concerns and methods narrated sections of the novel rendered with clay plates (.Come My dead kitten becomes a presence with "fetid breath." In the title poem — the together. The sum is a litany of the most (somewhat stiffly). The episode neared Friend . ... Be My Guest) to the pressing woes facing society. The its end with a narration of Sojourner opulence of shimmering chintz- strongest in the collection — a domestic scene unfolds. The strength of this poem instinct toward violence is explored in Truth's famous speech "Ain't I a articulated Occult (.Your Horoscope). Mosley's wall-mounted screeds equating Woman?" — first forward, then Many of the tableaus were traditional comes from Glass' ability to paint a landscape while presenting the point of deer hunting with the Iraqi war. Ford backward, as the piece segued into a and inspired by the high-gloss settings expresses the consequences of weightier examination of the oppression portrayed in fine dining magazines and view of a boy rebelling against his father's expectations: unchecked greed and need with a of women. Eventually, a rank of men grazing episodes on Lifestyles of the Rich vacant forest of bleak tree stumps rising dressed as dogs — naked except for and Famous. Gourmet with Monet and before a wall covered with architectural muzzles and g-strings — swept the the father knows you, you hear him women away, leaving three female Swan Lake emphasized excessive and in the dark room working mother's plans. Weaver addresses the small ness, opulent preciousness. These were assembly isolation and inarticulateness of the bodies sprawled on the stage. In an overseasoned by the reflective flash of line, pulling something apart, general population in a large "cave" of arresting moment, the "dogs" then metal, fabrics, glazes and crystal. putting something together, he might hanging twine and collaged turned and confronted the audience, Fortunately, this retro Dynasty vision of use language then, divide! is his newspapers. Inside, a video monitor marching out one-by-one into the materialistic "I can see myself!" joy was command displays the responses of regular theater aisles. The act concluded with a outshined by the numerous tablesettings and you must answer with the sound of Sheboygan folks when asked their huge, muscular man, naked from the reflecting American culture. sawing. opinions on hunting and the war, waist up, dressed in heels and a stretch inseparable in the artists' conception of mini-skirt, presenting himself to the Pop icon Madonna was immortalized in The language is strong, and individually, the impulses driving America, audience dispassionately, silently Madonna the Fifteenth, inspired by many of the poems are successful. apparently toward self-destruction (like completing the epic examination of Madonna's MTV Dangerous Liaison Others begin with power as the image is in Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam?). prejudice and oppression, by asking, in interpretation of "Vogue." Seventies pop established skillfully, but then — drawn effect, how we feel about homosexuals. star Strawberry Shortcake was out too long and the gloom spread on thick — they rot away into pretension The result is a walk-through wasteland resurrected in a children's party setting, — a death-knell gong booms an The most exciting part of the Have a Berry Nice Day, composed of and verbosity. Some of Glass' best writing is submerged in longer poems ominous dirge, a cast plaster carcass of a performance was Jones dancing out the mass-produced marketing parapher­ deer hangs from a tower, vaguely both biblical story of Job as it was read aloud nalia: stuffed dolls, paper plates and ("The Lake," "Man without Air," "Gnosis M"), but the works' inconsistencies mar military and DNR. But the installation's by a black minister — an authentic artwork celebrating the cartoon femme overt metaphors, while haunting, aren't reverend. (The company finds a local fatale. Operation Desert Storm was the quality of a good portion of the writing. Alone, each poem might seem nearly as effective a statement of our preacher to participate; in Milwaukee banalized in a mother's tribute to her common predicament as that which the Rev. Kenneth Wheeler cooperated in daughter and son-in-law, Special unique in its morbid fascination. Together, however, the horror loses its emerges less consciously. A Common the brave experiment.) After the story Delivery, in which the daughter's Gulf Thread is about individuals working concluded, Jones interviewed the letters graced the table along with a resonance, the dirge becomes predictable and the heavy-handed together, but it is more about their preacher about his faith. Questions ran studio portrait of the couple in military inability to make much difference. The from "Where are we before we are garb. Rockwellian Americana mysticism diction and imagery become merely dull and oppressive. sheer size of the gallery overwhelms the born?" to "What does God think about was displayed in numerous settings with artists' efforts. This landscape is largely sexual preference?" to "Does God care themes ranging from fire fighting heroics who wins in the Persian Gulf?" to one of In spurts, Glass handles his language empty and disheartening and thus it (Answering the Alarm) to the joys of the most basic questions of all time: with care. It's too bad the same can't be speaks well to the plight of the Wisconsin-style male bonding, Lunch "What is evil?" Rev. Wheeler bore up said for his self-publication. Considering individual. To take a stand against the with Herbie (To Hell With Hunting). with grace, answering the difficult that he is Cordelia Press, one would machinations of big business or against a Rockwell's suspect adolescent fetish questions with candor and humility, but think Glass would treat his poems with state whose needs come before those of dominated the Americana camp with from the firm position of faith — more respect. Instead, stanzas are its citizens or against that which people several tributes to coy childhood: unshaken, but limited. It was an broken with pages and sections are construe as moral "rights" does seem Lunch with the Little Boss, For the Child extraordinary exchange to witness — divided apparently without reason. hopeless. The artists deal with the Within, Alicia Marie Grows Up, and impact of past indiscretions on the electric and alive. Father's Dream, a 19th century-inspired Money limitations no doubt had much to do with all of this, as self-publication is present, but, like many of us, they stop tribute to Daddy's girl. The thematic short of articulating an alternative vision Jones concluded the interview by portraits of these settings with their not cheap. And neither, particularly, is Lexical Obelisk at $ 10. Order it from of the future. The installation's only saying, "Being with you, Reverend, is dominance of Woolworthian sensibilities testament to hope is that it holds like sitting with fire. I don't know that I and Hallmarkian poignancy looked Cordelia Press, PO Box 11066, Milwaukee 53211 with checks payable together at all. And that does, at least, share your faith, but I'm glad to know creatively cheap and psychologically represent a step in the right direction. someone has it." Jones has an cheesy. to Jesse Glass, Jr. Include $1.25 for postage/handling. Nathan Guequierre unquenchable desire to question, to explore and expose why painful things Kate Garfield (Nathan Guequierre is Associate Editor Outstanding among the tableaus was like slavery, prejudice, abuse and (Kate Garfield is a Minneapolis writer of Art Muscle.) Ehrich & Bess (Rosabelle Believe), a disease happen. Sitting in the audience and photographer.) tribute to Wisconsin's magic badger with Bill T. Jones' work on stage is also 6 Art Muscle FT;

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like sitting near fire — a different sort jaded courtesan, but also a Flemish SPEED-THE-PLOW True to the moral ambiguities of Mamet's than the Reverend's or Job's immovable monk and a hedonistic Caravaggio. In play (as well as its out-and-out Northern Stage Company faith — but just as crucial to our society one of the strongest works, she is a comedy), the production left the Through February 10 and our goals. rakish nobleman, her bare chest audience stewing. Were Karen's motives University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Marie Kohler embellished with a grotesque growth of idealistic, or ambitious or both? Is the (Marie Kohler is a local free-lance fake hair — an image reminiscent of world of Gould and Fox completely The Northern Stage Company's writer and actress who most recently comedienne Lily Tomlin's "Tommy contemptible? Stewing is an appropriate production of Speed-the-Plow,wa.s an appeared in Next Act Theatre's Voice of Velour" persona. The chest hair is response to a playwright who holds up a uncommon example of script, acting the Prairie J jarring, all the more so because Sherman mirror (albeit an exaggerated one) to and visual elements coming together to emphasizes its phoniness by letting her society and seems more interested in create a lean, clean whole. Much of this breasts protrude through it. In all of the provoking than answering questions. success was due to the over-arching masterpiece remakes, there are equally Marie Kohler CURRENTS 18 vision of the play established by director jolting reminders of the falsity of what Peter Hacked:, but also to the taste and Cindy Sherman we view — falsies that begin to slip, talents of actors and designers. (Sets and January 25 - March 17 false nipples that resemble red rubber costumes evoked an appropriately EVELYN PATRICIA Milwaukee Art Museum plunger tips, even false warts and fat repellent California, with the de rigeur faux noses. Are these elaborate parodies TERRY casual Italian suits and post-modern of high-culture icons? No, the longer one decor.) Perhaps the most unifying Subtle Memories and looks, the more they question the element of this production was the Empty Promises credibility of any representation, in evident respect for Mamet's script, a Walker's Point Center for the Arts whatever century. Is there more — or script so carefully wrought that the Through March 30 less — beneath it than meets the eye? playwright dictates the designer of a famie Daniel character's suit and the punctuation dic­ The family experience has become a tates the way lines are to be delivered. common theme for US artists over the past ten years. Few artists have handled it with such a sincere commitment to the BENEATH THE ICE Speed-the-Plow is a devastating, understanding of social constructs and The Art of The Fish Decoy on-target portrait of a particularly personal idiosyncracies as Evelyn January 28-March 18 American slice of life: the world of Patricia Terry. In her current installation Milwaukee Public Museum Hollywood film producers. The men and she examines herself as an artist, mother, the system which determine what films wife, divorcee, woman, African- What is it that lifts an object once viewed to make are the subjects under Mamet's American, Christian and housekeeper as ordinary to the status of art? Wasn't it microscope (and can be seen as a (not necessarily in that order). She art before? Has it changed, or have we? microcosm of American society). Profit presents fragments of her life that the The Milwaukee Public Museum's and self-advancement fuel this system, viewer pieces together to get the whole exhibition of 13 display cases filled with not the desire to create good films. picture. small woodcarvings of fish does not Karen, the temporary secretary for immediately grab. It is a quiet show, like producer Bobby Gould, asks naively of The installation consists of large black Untitled #207, 1989 the creatures and occupation which her boss: "Is the film good?" He reacts spawned it. uncomprehendingly, as if she has wall panels with white pastel writing It has been commonplace in 20th spoken in some foreign tongue. He that resemble Terry's pastel images — century art, at least since Duchamp, for rough and reworked. The writing itself While waterfowl decoys have been explains to her that film is a artists to quote from their precursors. looks like it was done very quickly as if collected for decades and enjoy a certain "commodity" and the need to get "asses This has been done with varying she tried to write as fast as she was status in the world of American folk art, into the seats" is fulfilled by making degrees of forthrightness. The late thinking. Around these panels are pieces it took much longer for fish decoys to "films people like." There is very little Robert Mapplethorpe openly quoted of clothing hanging from the ceiling and gain appreciation. Fish decoys, like room for purity in the world of this play, from the formal precision of Edward furniture on low pedestals, all of which living fish, secret themselves beneath the yet when the (perhaps) idealistic Weston and from the great homo-erotic have been covered with white paint. water. For years, only anglers have been secretary tries to make a case for the glamor photography of the 1930s. Jasper Often the paint doesn't conceal the true familiar with their use — a specialized "pure" film, the possibility seems to Johns has taken elaborate pains to colors, as if the clothes were trying to lot, indeed. Believed to have been an exist, for a second, that the system might conceal his references to Grunewald and assert their true identity. invention of Eskimos and/or Woodland have a chink: perhaps something other Edvard Munch by fragmenting these Indians, white folks picked up the idea than film as "commodity" is possible. images almost beyond recognition and The immediate impact when entering and used the carved lures largely during There are only two problems. One is encoding them within a dense language the space is one of white washing in winter seasons "beneath the ice." The that the "pure" film championed by of autobiographical reference. In both both the literal and figurative meanings decoys, sometimes realistic, sometimes Karen is based on a book which seems cases, homage is paid by acknowledging of the term. On fact, the weakest part of abstract, were "jigged" (or bobbed pretty much bullshit. The other is that a formal, thematic or even emotional the installation is the color of the walls; around): attractive wooden morsels Karen seems ready to sell herself by indebtedness to the quoted artist. the white clothes and furniture get lost dangled for the Big Fellows. When sleeping with the producer. So...where in the massive whiteness of the space.) hungry investigators came close to the does the play leave us? With many As one reads the texts revealing various Something much more ambivalent and ice hole, the fisherman was there, questions. aspects of Terry's life, the painted disturbing than this is being worked out lunging a multi-tined spear, and dinner in this group of extraordinary quotations objects become imbued with emotional was on the table. Peter Hackett provided direction that from well-known painted "masterpieces" qualities, like memories that always was clean, clear and faithful to the script. by photographer Cindy Sherman. linger in the back of one's mind or Under the skilled hands of a known Mamet writes dialogue as if it were Sherman is perhaps best known for her emotions hidden out of fear of revealing craftsman/carver, fish decoys (like other musical composition: quotes, for series of black and white images, the so- one's true self. On the furniture, pieces examples of folk art) gain in value, up to instance, determine a different sort of called "Untitled Film Stills," in which she of clothing lay draped and painted onto several thousand dollars at prestige delivery than text in italics. Under places herself in what appears to be the the surfaces as if the chairs and tables auctions. An astute observer can readily Hackett's direction, the actors made mises en scenes of imaginary 1950s were transforming into people or vice- see the individuality in a work by Oscar themselves instruments for this quirky, grade B movies. Those "stills," as versa. In one area an iron hangs Peterson (1887-1951), whose lures are distinctive music. James DeVita played ambivalent in their own way as this suspended over an ironing board like a supplemented by fish vases. His biggest Charlie Fox with a perfect nervous more recent work, seem to be Dali-esque dream image of a dreaded appeal is the use of color: reds against physicality. In the opening scene, he addressing the problematic relationship task. golds and yellows, enhanced by inky was an anxious dog on a short leash, between the camera and the way its blacks and deep greens. Among the animated by jerky, servile energy. "gaze" (generally assumed to be male) most appealing objects de decoy, is a DeVita also successfully portrayed the The texts are sometimes humorous, represents the photographed or filmed Michigan specimen, sides emblazoned Fox of Act II. Enraged by Gould's when Terry reveals certain personality subject (generally female). Sherman with "Eat Me," and some "unfish" betrayal of their deal, Fox's fury and quirks, and sometimes poignant, as she complicates this relationship by delights, including a mouse, crayfish, a sense of injustice after so many years of reveals her struggles. After reading all of presenting herself as both photographer few frogs, an intriguing salamander and "eating your shit and taking your the texts one has a sense of having been and photographed subject, a fashionably patriotic fish camouflaged leavings" was as moving as it was taken into the artist's confidence. She simultaneously questioning the sexual as an American flag. pathetic. The play was at its most has revealed herself to the viewer in an politics of the mass production and dynamic in the scenes between the two intimate way. distribution of various stereotypical Organized by the Museum of American men. Jared Sakren chose to create a Cynthia Crigler fantasies and acting them out and Folk Art in New York, the string of Gould dominated by a kind of crass representing them yet again. appealing items also includes spears, bravado which occasionally opened up photographs, jigging sticks and a fish to expose sometimes a bruised ego, SEX AND THE CIRCUS The vivid color photographs in this shanty, upscale style. This show has sometimes a vague desire to do "good." series grow out of her earlier work. definite al-lure! Carol Halstead's interpretation of the WHAT I KNOW SO FAR Sherman has again photographed Garyfohn Gresl secretary was less strong than the others' Debbie Davis and Lisa Saunders herself as the solitary subject in carefully (Gary fohn Gresl is president of work — due partly to Mamet's enigmatic April 5-20, Fridays/Saturdays, 8 pm constructed scenarios within which she Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors). writing of the role (probably the play's Preview April 4 "inhabits" stereotypical representations. most difficult). In the "seduction" scene Lincoln Center for the Arts, Rm 222 But her representations are from the at Gould's apartment, energy flagged $8 door/$6 advance/$5 preview "priceless" masterpieces of high culture and rhythms were more protracted and rather than B movies. Importantly, monotonous than in the rest of the That cream of the cropped, former Sherman inhabits both male and female production. Cream City SemiCircus performer images; she is a coy madonna and a Debbie Davis, is back with a sixth m iff* iK w K !*^ ^1/ ^i

annual production of original works. Sex University of Wisconsin-Madison. As the presentation, "Gay Studies: Commodity playground and a vehicle; and along and the Circus, Davis' newest, confronts sole proprietor and director (since 1964) and Desire", will be at 7:30 p.m. on with that you may find the limits of the the fears and powers in our personal of The Perishable Press Limited, he has Thursday, April 18. Nestle's "Lesbian vocabulary; a sense of the range and tricks and pleasures. Through the published 100 handmade books by 54 Courage Pre-1970" will be given at 7:30 variety of words — the fence around the multimedia melange of film, rope authors in collaboration with 25 artists. p.m. on Friday, April 19. Both keynote playground? Or the suitcase full of toys." walking and handstands, this Wisconsin As if it isn't enough to have the golden presentations will be in Curtin Hall Arts Board grant-recipient tumbles reputation of developing one of the Room 175. Co-commissioned by The Milwaukee Art through the life of a girl child caught in most innovative private presses in this Museum, Alverno College and the acts of Circus Lesbos. country, Hamady has also been the Flaunting It! was organized by Cheryl Houston's Diverse Works in conjunction recipient of NEA grants, a John Simon Kader and Thomas Piontek, graduate with the National Performance Network Another portion of the program features Guggenheim Memorial Foundation students in UWM's English Department. Creation Fund and Dance Theatre former migrant worker/actor Lisa Fellowship and numerous awards and According to Kader and Piontek, the Workshop, the piece will tour New York, Saunders who has performed with research grants from his employer. His conference was organized "to bring Houston and other faraway places. groups ranging from the* Florentine diverse works have had solo exhibitions together graduate students from across Opera to Friends Mime Theatre and has throughout the United States and Europe the country and across the disciplines recently toured nationally with the Ohio- and most recently Book Arts In The USA working in the fields of lesbian and gay UNCOMMON THREADS based Mad River Theater Works. What I (under the auspices of The Center for studies to exchange ideas and debate Know So Far is a human record of many the Book Arts, New York City) traveled the future of this emergent field of DanceCircus voices taught by every sentence uttered, to six African countries. Additionally, his inquiry." The conference represents the Friday, April 19, 8 pm (Benefit for every dollar spent, vote cast, video seen works are in the select collections of the growing influence of the American Silk For Life), $20 and performance given. Ms. Saunders Smithsonian, Moscow's Lenin Library, lesbian and gay communities and the Saturday, April 20,8 pm, $10/$7 has developed and performed her Harvard University and the Whitney critical theory presented at the Vogel Hall/Performing Arts Center original material in over 80 elementary Museum of American Art. conference will offer a welcomed schools, using theater to engage critique of dominant ideology and students in history and literature. An MFA graduate from Cranbrook culture. Along with the national Academy of Art, Hamady began a series attention the conference is receiving, the This dynamic duo is co-sponsored by of two dimensional collages and incised critical theory addressed will long be Media Jar and Milwaukee Public Theater. collage/drawings in the early 1980s. discussed within lesbian and gay studies For further information call 372-5192. Though created separately and in and the intellectual community. different media, all are products of the same intense intellect, infallable eye, Flaunting It! is partially funded by a WALTER SAMUEL and irreverent humor. His works have grant from Milwaukee's Cream City inspired a generation of bookmakers, Foundation and is co-sponsored by HAATOUM HAMADY artists and collectors, and Director various UWM Departments. Conference DanceCircus Handmade Books, Collages & Pepich feels that whatever course registration begins at 5 pm on April 18 in April is synonymous with kites, laundry Sculptures Hamady takes, his influence will Mitchell Hall's Center for Women's flapping on washday lines, wind chimes, March 15-April 28 continue to reach an ever broader Studies. The $10 registration fee includes the cycle of life and dreams spun of the Wustum Museum of Fine Arts public. admission to all workshops, keynote hopeful silken promises of spring. addresses and a social gathering on Experience all of this with Uncommon Saturday, April 20, which will feature Dr. Threads, a weaving of poetry (by Queen's Drag Academy, a combination FLAUNTING IT Milwaukee's Christina Herrera) into variety show and academic panel. For dance and music. DanceCircus Artistic First National Graduate Conference further information, contact UWM's Director Betty Salamun will also be on Lesbian and Gay Studies Center for Women's Studies at 229-5918. honoring Silk For Life, a group dedicated April 18-20 The public is welome at all events. Fee to converting Columbian cocaine fields University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for individual events is $5. to mulberry plantations to feed silk ferome Schultz In April, history will be made when over worms. 80 graduate students from across the country and Canada come to Milwaukee In one part of the program, Chicago to deliver academic papers at Flaunting MANUAL choreographer Jan Erkert will eulogize It!: First National Graduate Conference Mark Anderson her father and resurrect his spirit on Lesbian and Gay Studies. The three March 28, 29, 30, 8 pm through the power of dancing, and her day conference at UWM will have 26 Stiemke Theater/Perfoming Arts dancing has been described as workshop panels with 3 to 4 participants Center "structurally impeccable." This 107-Lay at the logical intersection presenting papers on various aspects of premiere, Ways of My Fathers, lays bare of two concerns lesbian and gay culture. Workshop Manual will be a performance of firsts the life of a man as he moves from outer The Charles Wustum Museum is topics include autobiography, for Mark Anderson — his first full-length restrictions to inner peace. particularly known for its commitment to community organizing, erotica, film, solo in over four years and the premiere the support of regional artists and history, literature, pedagogy, performance of the work, which is a If washday delights you, Audrey Jung's craftsmen. By once again exhibiting performance, photography and race and culmination of several years exploration F.A.B.(Five Activities of the Body) will Walter Hamady's considerable sexuality. Workshops will be held in into the medium of "talk." present everyday movement in achievements, Director Bruce Pepich UWM's Mitchell and Curtin Halls. starchy—sharp precision. The dream and Associate Curator Caren Heft With music composed by New Yorker images of kinetic sculptor Randy illuminate the close interrelationship Keynote speakers at the conference are Pat Irwin, choreographic direction by Williams will transform into Rika between this praised artist's Thomas Yingling, from Syracuse Milwaukeean Diane VanDerHei, the Burnham's Randy's Turn and Brady development of the handmade book University's English Department and piece continues Anderson's examination Street's Art Smart's Dart Mart will fly a and the exploration of the book as author of the book Hart Crane and the of human behavior. He concludes, backdrop of spectacular kites for subject in recent collages and sculptures. Homosexual Text; and Joan Nestle, co- "being alive makes everyone an Salamun's revival of Tako-fapanese founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives expert...if they want to be." In Kites. For a spring tonic of the highest For the past decade, Walter Hamady has in New York and author of the book A Anderson's words, "Somewhere in there, quality, call 272-6683 for more served as a Professor of Art at the Restricted Country. Yingling's you discover language and words, information.

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By Julia Romanski Instrumental as it may be, I set politics aside on the eve of battle. It seemed to A NEW WORK me that the matters of this war were, at If, today, one of the values by which we BY MARK ANDERSON the root, simple to comprehend. Yet as I might recognize the presence of art lay watched the war and knew how far was simply in seeing form perfectly united my remove, I remained sharply aware with function (if one could argue that that no amount of diligent scrutiny could such a value still counted at a time when bring it — in truth — closer to my world. art seems ever more the matterful crap I feel the distance most acutely in of solipsists), then nothing serves that MAN realizing that I want to know the war value like the military and its attendant beyond my intellectual grasp of it. My aesthetic. The weapons of the world, of instinct craves the depths of the real; it the moneyed world especially, must transacts in experience, not information. function well. Few funds are denied to MARCH 28,29,30 For this reason (and I suspect I am not ensure that they do. But they must also alone in this) it often seems to me that 8 pm look like what they do — must by shape most of the efforts I make to comment and name convey their function before Stiemke Theater on the war, to respond to the fact of it, their use and, in the most artful cases, whether with wit or wisdom, serve little their consequences. more than to point up my own guileless banality. Try as I might. Co-sponsored by Which is to say — the war looms behind The Milwaukee Art Museum me as I write. Its shadow hangs before And one does want to try, I think. One me. It could have ended yesterday, it does want to labor to find some way might be over tomorrow, but that through words or images to shape an doesn't matter. Such an event, moving understanding of such an awesome with a singluar momentum, always event as this. Over there a mighty travels far beyond the settling dust, often power exists. I can't describe its motion. farther than we could have guessed. History waits, pen in hand. I couldn't After the battlefield we know it will write the chapter being outlined now. make its way to history, but by what Men of many nations die, weapons in path, through how many lives? hand. I don't know them. To mourn them, for me, means to make them part I'm still young enough for this war to be of a story, a story which I know is old the first of my mature life. I have no and many times told. There they will frame of reference, no aid by which to find a kind of impersonal immortality in compare and contrast which has not being remembered as those who come to me through books, movies and populated yet another story which is the staggering, halting image of a father larger than our lives. spiritually shot down and made cruel by some moment of war about which he never spoke but to which he remained forever prisoner. But, I think, to particularize is, perhaps, to trivialize.

12 Art Muscle H H JJ u AFONTS By Gathryn Harding

t's a cold, cruel world out there and Dane LaFontsee wants you to forget about it. The new Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Ballet sees it as his duty to push the company "to the forefront" in provid­ Iing escapistfantasy during these troubled times. As he was putting the finishing touches on the company's preparations for a recent four night run, LaFontsee expressed his hope that Milwaukee audiences will come to realize "that ballet is not only a beautiful, beautiful classical art form — it's also an entertain­ ment."

Of course, LaFontsee's duties run to more than just making people feel good. Faced with creating a com­ pany out of the disastrous mergerof the Pennsylvania and Milwaukee Ballets, LaFontsee has financial, tech­ nical and developmental problems to contend with. From the ashes of bankruptcy and audience skepti­ cism he must produce a phoenix of a ballet company whose fiscal soundness and technical excellence will make it soar.

It's a big job, but LaFontsee seems up to it, even cheered by the challenge of resurrecting the company's reputation. Judging from recent record-setting audi­ ence attendance and the growing artistic strength of the company, things are looking good for the 44-year- old director.

Dane LaFontsee came into ballet through the side door of musical comedy. After high-kicking in shows like The Music Man, West Side Storyand Destry Rides Again, he trained at the School of American Ballet in New York City. Eventually, LaFontsee earned princi­ pal dancer status with the Pennsylvania Ballet. He spent 18 years there, the last four as its Associate Di­ rector. Then he headed south to found the Nashville Ballet, the troupe he has directed since 1986. (He will continue to split his time between Nashville and Milwaukee until June). He is particularly proud of his work in Tennessee. "I built a company out of nothing with a $300,000 budget," he said, "and in five years increased that budget to over $1 million, produced over 23 ballets and broke even every year for five years." And the company did alright with the critics, too, winning praise recently for its "aggressive self- assurance."

It was, no doubt, the combination of artistic high marks and fiscal sobriety that made LaFontsee attrac­ tive to the Milwaukee Ballet's Board of Directors when they wentshoppingfor a new director last year. By the time the joint venture with the Pennsylvania Ballet was dissolved, in March of 1989, the Milwau­ kee Ballet was $1.6 million in the red. To make ends meet, the board went public with a massive fundraising Speaking to the Milwaukee Sentinel late last year appeal and cut the company's staff by 18. The efforts his creativity. He seems to approach it with the same Milwaukee BalletPresidentMichaelStirdivantexplained relish he might have for a new piece of choreography. paid off with the Greater Milwaukee Committee and the that earning its keep would be the future watchword for United Performing Arts Funding coming to the rescue. "I'm from a school that says if I have 10 dollars and am the Milwaukee Ballet. "We have committed ourselves to supposed to make it look like $20, that's why I'm an Then Basil Thompson, ballet master rogisseur who at the being income-driven. That is anathema in most of the time was serving as the company's interim artistic direc­ artist. If you give me $20 and say I'm supposed to make arts world," he said. "The general rule is, 'You create it, it look like $20, anybody can do that. My challenge to tor, recruited some new dancers and pulled together a we'll pay for it.'" troupe that, it was hoped, would shine on its own. my staff, to my production management, to my orches­ Feeling more sure-footed financially and artistically, the tra, to my dancers is I want $20 to look like $75, but I LaFontsee is more blunt on that point: "Ballet is a dying board hired LaFontsee last spring. Shortly thereafter the want to do it for $15." art form. It's an endangered species. But I believe that company concluded its fiscal year with its first-ever those of us who believe in keeping ballet alive by being operating surplus, totalling $2,000. LaFontsee may claim that ballet is dying, but judging fiscally responsible are the ones who are going to be from his approach to programming, he is not exactly here ten years from now." digging its grave. Although the bill presented last month was not selected by LaFontsee — audiences will see his Keeping the books ship-shape is not regarded by programming in September — the recent series none- LaFontsee as merely a necessary evil that interferes with Photo By Francis Ford 13 theless echoes his emphasis on diversity. On the pro­ When asked if a sense of context is something he finds regional companies. The big companies really can't afford to do that anymore. I firmly believe that if we have gram were Les Sylphides, a 1908 "white ballet" by typically missing in American ballet dancers, LaFontsee San Francisco Ballet on the west coast and Boston Ballet Michel Fokine which is the essence of diaphanous answers with an emphatic "yes." "American dancers on the Atlantic coast, then why shouldn't we have otherworldliness; Glazounov Variations, a divertisse­ are considered the greatest technicians in the world — Milwaukee Ballet in the middle being the top ballet ment attributed to the master of classical ballet Marius to the point that Bolshoi Ballet (Moscow) is sending company of this region? There's no reason we can't be. Petipa; and Virgin Forest, a sexy, moody, highly theatri­ people over to America to learn how we teach. Techni­ We've got the building, the resources, the support of the cal work about the painter Henri Rousseau by choreog­ cally we are incredibly proficient — we've melded the audience and certainly the support of the board." rapher Margo Sappington. Given this range, it's no classics and the modern and the neo-classics together to surprise when LaFontsee says "I want the Milwaukee create a unique dance style. Our whole training effort in Ballet to be a home for dance, not a home for an America has been on technique. We've forgotten why. Still LaFontsee acknowledges that the nascent greatness individual point of view." Why do we do the step the way we do?" of this new company may not be apparent to all of those in the audience. Although he expresses relief over the termination of the joint venture, he does note that the To that end, the company of 29 will be dancing histori­ LaFontsee says the weakest link in Milwaukee Ballet, company has suffered technically with the loss of Penn­ cal ballets, neo-classical, abstract, romantic and narra­ technically speaking, is the training. He's got a corps sylvania Ballet principal dancers. "I think there's a tive ballets — just about every kind of ballet. He's par­ that, though steadily improving, is sometimes dancing certain amount of artistic integrity that Milwaukee feels ticularly interested in preserving American ballet. Lew with blank stares. And he's dealing with a group of men it may have lost," he said. "In reality there's a certain Christensen's Filling Station, with a score by Virgil who sometimes come out of their jumps with wobbly amount of that I have to concur with. The dancers that Thomson, was the first American ballet choreographed imprecision. ("Men are always the weak link," he came in from Pennsylvania Ballet.. .1 have to say quite to American music and is one work LaFontsee intends to notes.) honestly that I and my wife trained them. The dancers present. He also plans to bring Romeo and Juliet and like Tamara Hadley and Bill Degregory and all the another full-length ballet into the repertory. He would Some dancers won't make the cut when LaFontsee takes dancers who were enjoyed very much here were with like to plan theme evenings — an all American program, over full-time this summer. Those who do will undergo that company for 12, 14 years. Right now Milwaukee for example. He will work some Balanchine into the mix what amounts to a new training regimen with Th­ Ballet is two-years-old. too, and all in all, the company will offerlO premieres ompson, former ballerina Fiona Fuerstner (LaFontsee's next year. wife) and LaFontsee himself. "I think the cohesive look of a company when you call it a company — rather "It's not going to take 14 years here. I think we're going to see a big difference next year. What's going to excite The goal however is not to present Milwaukee Ballet as than a group of dancers who are dancing to the same the audiences about Milwaukee Ballet is the obvious just a company of show-offs who can dance anything. tempo of music — is the way the dancers are trained. amount of growth they're going to see in the next few LaFontsee places a premium on fostering depth in his There has to be a single pointof view that all the dancers years. Notonly will there be faces that they know thatare dancers and one way to do that is to make sure they buy into. It's beginning to happen now through Basil getting better, there will be some new faces and chang­ understand their roots as artists. "It's real easy to teach a and myse If and def i n itely wi 11 be seen next season when ing points of view and more confidence." dancer how," he said. "It's real difficult to teach a dancer (the three of us) are the sole teachers of the company." why. LaFontsee is coming to the helm of the Milwaukee Ballet It's fair to assume that LaFontsee feels that if he were able, over 18 years, to have had a hand in creating a "I have a philosophy that a company is only as good as at a time when the definition of the regional ballet ballet company that Milwaukee once enjoyed, he has its worstdancer and that the corps de ballet has to be the company is changing. Regional companies used to be what it takes to do it again — and this time locally. "I strongest. Anyone can hire principal dancers and look regarded as poor cousins of the big New York compa­ want very much for Milwaukee to fall in love with its wonderful. You can't hire a corps de ballet. Therefore nies. But as established principal dancers take on artistic company again," he said, "and take ownership." *^ your corps de ballet has to be steeped in all the aspects directorships around the country, the production values of ballet. Which means that when we're doing a ballet and performance standards of the regional companies like Les Sylphides, for instance, we have to coach it in have moved up several notches. These days, several of (Cathryn Harding, a feature editor at Isthmus in Madi­ that Baroque style. What I tell them, and what Basil has the smaller companies are looking as good as, if not son, writes regularly about dance for Art Muscle). been emphasizing is the way Fokine designed the ballet, better than, the larger troupes. LaFontsee is aiming to which means limp-wristed. They're supposed to be add Milwaukee Ballet to the ranks of leading regional sylphs. They're not supposed to be real 20th-century companies. "In the dance world, all of the excitement people rocking and rolling to M.C. Hammer. They've got and wonderful world premieres are coming from the to realize they're working in a tradition. To work in Les Sylphides there is a whole different approach to tech­ nique. There's no attack. It has to be totally romantic."

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HHA^H wenty-six year old Ron Kibble lives and works in a studio apartment measuringbarely beyond 10'xlO'. The plumbing drips, there are no chairs, the interior is stuffed, stuffy, I and his windows overlook 2nd Street, where visionary locals breathe new life into Victorian wrecks. Piled high in this room are photographs, books on mythology, saints, sinners and family memorabilia. Set squarely in a square box is a large pet turtle, a female, gender identifiable by the shape of the shell. K her calmness. Furthermore, she nc alked, wormed nor stroked. The walls are pinned with jumbled old work, works in progress, works of other artists and RON KIBBLE a large striking poster of Saint Sebastian. Tied to a tree and pierced by arrows, this is Kibble's hero, a (SLINGS AND ARROWS) homosexual who did not bleed from the flying shafts' powerful points; a man who recovered only By Judith Ann Moriarty to be clubbed to death when he reaffirmed his faith. Kibble sees the powerful points as penises.

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Next to this saintly but commercial poster, is tacked a 4'x5' photographic self portrait. Central to the black and white work is Kibble; nude, frontal, twisted and surrounded by American Indians—toy Indians—the kind a youngster would setup against toy cowboys, but d; me the less. This is not a fun game. Bows drawn, gut strings taut, the airborne arro ek their fleshy marks. Unfra; :>ped, shot through with si . les, this photo is unconven­ tional, powerful, and smeared with the history of third century Roman martyrdom. It is tortured and disturbing. The presentation is sloppily perfect for Kibble's message, which is— Kibble. He is his work, and though he is pretty, to merely record prettiness would make him a mindless cultural scribe. His photos, he explains, are burning flashes of personal experiences, and he pooh-poohs viewer interpretation. He looks startlingly like a young Mapplethorpe and works with a similar wicked­ ness, but his pieces are unstaged, dulled down, fogged and unpretentious. Mapplethorpe is not his hero. He pops a cold Hacker-Pschorr, and says he wants fame, not money.

Enduring Photography I and II before graduating from UWM with a Commercial Arts degree, Kibble mostly did his own walk-on-the-wild side self portraiture. He dislikes the process of taking pho­ tographs, he dislikes developing prints and making them technically perfect. He prefers arranging images with all their possibilities for surprise. At a recent Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors member­ ship show, he was loudly attacked with verbal arrows for leaving developing fluid spots and splashes on his work. But it was a juried show, so at least one other person (Kibble aside) had no problem with his technique. He's been in various local invitational shows with his images of exploi­ tation, masturbation and ejaculation. They are images of a world both straight and gay. Once a student performance artist, he's frozen those expe­ riences with his camera. Is this The Supreme Egotist? Self-portrait, Ron Kibble

Discarded ideas are propped in another corner of The local galleries like his work, he says. But it from the chair, or is one waiting to sit down for the the studio, half finished collages, photos blown up won't, they say, sell in conservative Milwaukee. execution? In another photo, Kibble refuses the and mounted on vertical boards. Leftovers, they Perhaps Chicago or L.A. is for him. He sells work in medicine of safe and sure conservatism, proffered are pronounced, finally (and thoughtfully) as too gay bars, but feels thpbuyers just want to see his from a matriarchal spoon just outside a Wedding commercial or too obvious. He sees each surgically naked self port e's not a pornographer; irre- Chapel in Somewhereland, Nevada. Spirits ride placed staple as his maker's mark, his craftsman­ o much skin, he wants people to see through and around a Gateway Motel Sign, seeking ship insignia, hard and direct. Black, gritty, un­ his sc queen sized beds and giant screen color television, friendly sandpaper backs other photos. Acquiring vacant spaces for those dear couples who wait a sewing machine is next on his want list. It might :n . vith greys and ochres, gashes and vacant eyed to fill to overflowing, BankAmericards. help him with new stitches, new closures. Occa­ . 1.., photography is his therapy, but he is not Cupid is there too, working sweet magic. Angelyne, sionally he adds third dimension with faux pearls- depressed about what he does or who he is. He queen of the outdoor billboards, shares format seed fauxs placed on the photo where the likes seeing his nakedness splayed across paper. space with a Corian-marble Venus. In another photo hopefully from fountainhead penises. Gauze It's his performance, his lonely dance. He manipu­ adventure in dining, Kibble serves up filet of soul, stretches across other image bits and pieces lates, he contemplates; a not so innocent boy hot and spicy, himself turned menu in a take off on of early Kibble thr-. onto collaged top cupid who is quite capable of slinging arrows whopper casino menus. If this sounds like a good layers. Is the L . strata in this psycho-dig his through the orbs of viewers . One wonders if he time, it isn't. It's a searing twist of the arrow into the recent stui :ese the oldest hurts turned bleeds under that self assured shell. The pet turtle breast of the com topsy i: :rd of inside-oul? is the perfect pet afterall. It's no igst-ridden. A A poet, he writes in a black sketch book. One page Currently, Kibble is not cutting, stitching or col- _ r : ._ } . z •—spelled humor— is word, one page image. Words appeared on laging. Rather, he superimposes multipleJmages would offer relief. No matter how tempting earlier pieces, scripted in faux gold. He wishes to onto an 18Mx24M format. . ir*§£fltaflraTvegas the tender treats, too much cheesecake can be con­ be heard, but decided the written word was over­ has its manicured . . . ed spotless with a stipating, and afterall, a laugh now and then is good kill. Refusing to sit down and take his medicine like reliable old He Je pushed along by for one's cultural digestion. **»- a good boy, he is tough but vulnerable, a Donatello a pantless person (headless too). Nude dollie types in Satyr's clothing, more faun than Faust. He sows with California cantaloup breasts, ripe for the his seed carefully, and leaves us guessing. thumping, vie for space with a man measuring his saluting John Henry, just to see how he "measures The Milwaukee Art Museum, it seems, asked him to up." The measure of a man is—well, the measure donate some of his work. They said, (he says) it of a man. At least in Vegas. A lone Indian, clad in would be good for his career. The deal was never loin cloth, shoots heart-shaped arrows at a spook- done. So much for fame. ily empty chair. Has a body just been removed

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EVERY CHILD REPEATS THE FALL OF MAN, QUITS THE PARADISE OF THE WOMB AND IS LAUNCHED INTO THE PAINFUL WORLD. ROBERTSON DAVIES: THE REBEL ANGELS

During the opening act, the dance floor in front of I^L howls into the microphone, giving the rest the stage is empty; people are milling around the of the band a chance to catch their breath bar, checking each other out. Suddenly, a single before finishing the set. "You wanna hear Knee figure, his leg in a cast, hobbles up and begins a Deep in what7/' As the audience yells the answer violent thrashing, hopping on one I eg, falling over, — the only logical answer at 2 a.m. on a Monday getting up. When he starts throwing chairs the night at a metal club on the South Side — Antoni bouncers drag him away, and a minute later a smiles and, in atypical movement, raises his arms woman follows, carrying his crutches out to him. like he's invoking heaven for the energy for an­ When Realm finally does arrive — well after other song as the guitars kick in to what, in this midnight with a joke about "how many of you have place, is a sing-a-long: "Knee Deep in Blood!" to work tomorrow?" — the crowd pushes forward and the head bangers' heads start banging. This is thrash. The band is Realm, king of Milwaukee's speed metal hill. And for once this Realm pi ays fast and loud, extremely fast and loud, winter the crowd is big. At least 250 people have pushing music's boundaries so hard the/re almost come out on a cold Monday night, paid their five ready to fall away, leaving only short, intense bucks and sq ueezed i nto the bar to watch five guys bursts of white noise. The music is aggresive and play music that is the aural equivalent of being run bludgeoning, technically fabulous. It's really over by a train. And the crowd is ready to see it. anti-musical in a way—pure testosterone, adrena-

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18 Art Muscle lin, the fight or flight reflex—the guitars often used intensity that Realm musters, flying over their the windows in the face of this music, but if s true. feeling of otherness, of being outside the mair*- Milwaukee is a city made to produce speed metal bands, uncle's rec-room. The Shark Tank, on 27th ||iayton as rhythm instruments, crashing through the club instalments and howling like a tornado siren, and Only when the big national shows come to town, stream, metalheads are simply fiving their lives, with an abundance of working-class white people who across from the airport, is in a bowling alley, but the like dynamite explosions, in fact, Takis Kinis and still retain absolute control over the songs. Just the Megadeths and Slayers of this world, do the and the bands are singing about them, not for have only, in general, gotten poorer after a decade of sound and atmosphere ate decidely better than at T.A Paul Laganowski, Realm's guitarists, often play when they seem ready to explode into a thousand troops mobilize. Weekends and weekdays at the them. The dichotomy between the power of the fleeing businesses and trickle down economics, with a Venn's. The SharkTankalso occasionally features all-ages exactly the same thing, exceptionally complicated, nuclear-driven pieces, the whole thing stops sud­ metal clubs around town tend to be quiet, almost bands and the apparent disinterest of the fans generation of teenagers ready to tell the world what a thrash shows, so you can take your little brother and multi-faceted riffs that, though they sometimes denly, leaving a heart-pounding void. boring outside of the music. seems irreconcilable. But exactly as there is little ^gimer life is. Among the best are Realm and Acrophet sister along. verge on atonality, are like standing next to a jet affectation in the music, the same holds true of the (with a Misfits-style singer and fabulous guitar playing), engine, able to swoop into searing solos, often in Thaf s an apt metaphor, somehow, for something The likely explanation is that the people who listen audience. The scene wasn't spawned of the bands, who have exported Milwaukee metalonextended tours. The most reliable speed metal venue is Swizzler's, tandem harmony. Prowess is an understatement. a little deeper. While the world may be beyond to speed metal, the white middle class, are primar­ of a sub-culture's need to make a statement, but Bands to watch in the future are Rabid Captor, which located on Barnard a block west of Packard Avenue in On top of it ail, Antoni wails like an an art rock their control, the music isn't That is part of the ily defined by their averageness. There is no sense rather the bands have evolved from a scene that sound like the very gates of hell have opened and Cudahy. It doesn't look too inviting from the outside, but refugee, with the range, intensity and sustain essence of speed metal. The musicians in Realm of counter-culture to bind them to one another. has existed for a long time. Speed metal is a Sinister, who play fast, hard and generally shirtless: like the main floor is a veritable MTV palace, with moving capability necessary to hold his own over the are regular people, not caught up in the myth of Somehow, seeing a thrash band on a Saturday reflection, and perhaps more honest than the real­ Realm, no-frills, no-gimmick thrash. lights, huge PA stacks suspended from the ceiling and musical roar backing him up. The Rock Star, and in a world where decisions are night is not much different from going to work on ity, with a perverse sort of subtlety lacking in the plenty of relatively cheap drinks. On Mondays, Swizzler's made by bloated businessmen, where even con- Monday morning. It's just something you do, an middle-class world. Maybe ifs just hard to get T.A. Vein's, a rock club on H ighway 100 & Si Iver Spring, features Metal Madness, at which (for only $4) you can Thrash is not to be confused with its lesser cousins, gresspeople earn more than $100,000 ayear, how expected and accepted part of experience. There is excited by your life made manifest on stage. And showcases speed metal about once a week, but usually get your fill of the city's finest speed metal from two or death metal and glam. Satan-lord-of-darkness, can regular people feel they have any control? In no cognizance of creating a new order, and there­ amplified. >**• at their downstairs stage, which, aside from its godawful three bands. blood and guts, really aren't a part of this; the the time-honored tradition of rock and roll, speed fore nothing to get too excited about. With no acoustics has the feeling of being in your aunt and world's headlong and ignorant rush toward Arma­ metal takes that reality and twists it to its own geddon is. The songs (as though the words are purposes. Realm is phenomenal to witness, intel­ audible), surprisingly, are issue-oriented. Dealing ligent and talented in a refreshing way. If s hard to with the environment, the Persian Gulf war or just overstate the physical power and presence of a the general tack of American "Suiciety" (Realm's band that makes the hard rock legends of the '70s last album), it's comforting to know that unlike the look like Peter Paul and Mary. Admittedly, speed make-up and hairspray-laden boys in glam metal metal's range of expression is severely limited. bands, thrashers aren't just singing about getting But from the moment the band starts, if s impos­ high and getting laid. sible not to get caught up, because speed metal in the hands of a band like Realm is oddly transcen­ dent of its appearance, something greater than That's a key. Realm and other speed metal bands what it seems. are serious about something, revolving not around the image of rock and roll — chicks, drugs, fast times, whatever — but rather around the essence of their lives. It's extreme music about day to day realities, not about the concept of being a rock star. The woman is drunk when she approaches, wear­ Speed metal is the music of disenfranchised white ing an impossibly brief skirt, hair teased up toward people, for whom the future seems to hold little the black lights on the ceiling. "My name's Tina, promise; specifically, it's the music of white male and I'm really drunk. I had sex for the first time teenagers, dismayed that their lives do seem like a when I was 21, and now I'm tired of my boyfriend. constant headbang. God, I'm really drunk. I live in Delafield and in December I'll be a registered nurse. I love the Speed metal, naturally, is not so hot in its recorded Smiths. You know that song, 'November Spawned form, not the kind of thing for the car radio, a Monster'? That's about me because I was born in because it tends to be rather constrained in scope. November and, really, I can't shop for clothes Eschewing melodies, the music comes across as worth a damn." pounding and monotonous when it's not played at the kind of volume a night club affords. Live, if s The other half of the story is the metal scene. And, overwhelming. No watered-down schlock with a as Tina proves, Tipper Gore and her ilk needn't band like Realm. Talented musicians playing like form a Mothers Against Speed Metal chapter in the there's no tomorrow, hair flailing around their Midwest, because nothing'sout of control just yet. faces. Realm enjoys playing—Antoni and the rest In Milwaukee, there just isn't a metal scene. There smile away as they pound their instruments, leap are quite a number of bands—good bands—but around the stage. And despite the frantic energy, no swelling masses. This Monday night is an there is no room for sloppiness at a Realm show. anomaly because there are a lot of people head- This is the other crux of thrash: control. All the banging. If s quite a spectacle to be in a dark club, changes are together, the band stops on a dime. the band playing so hard they're practically bleed­ And while control is the text, frustration is the ing, and all the patrons are just sitting in their subtext. To use a male metaphor (It's appropriate chairs. 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"As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, herself in a long scarf. Bare-chested, she faces the Choreographer/dancer Bill T. Jones created this piece neither art nor civilization is secure." audience. Audience members seated near me re­ in 1989 in collaboration with former partner Arnie Zane. -John Dewey sponded by yelling "Take if all off baby!" and "Those The text, written by Zane, dealt with the movement Afro-Americans—I" between dream and waking states as a parallel to Can a naked body be art? We accept it as such in most moving from one apartment to another, perhaps into or two-dimensional art forms. Even sculptural represen­ The first comment reduced the political act of nudity to away from the home of a lover, from one life to another. tations of the nude have become acceptible. But three a pornographic strip tease. The second comment was The recurring theme wove throughout in subtle, flow­ contemporary dance concerts over the past year in­ a racist attempt to belittle and dismiss this powerful act. ing movements. Prior to the concert, the local newspa­ volving nudity and in one case, homosexuality, illus­ These people had no cultural or conceptual framework per ran an article discussing Zane's recent death from trated how far we truly are from accepting and under­ with which to undertand the performer. AIDS. Part of the audience's response may have been standing the theatrical merits of the human body. Mo- formed by the media's attention to this detail. The lissa Fenley, Urban Bush Women and Bill T. Jones According to the program notes, Zollar's piece was epidemic plague-mentality surrounding AIDS still holds performances each drew varying reactions that seemed based on her personal research into the Tarot, sha- much of our nation under siege despite the attempts of to prove the unfortunate stereotype of culturally illiter­ manistic healing traditions, African American Orisha the arts community to change attitudes. Furthermore, ate midwesterners. and Christian mysticism. Each of the 22 pieces in Life it left me wondering how much of the audience's Dances was based on a Major Arcana card in the response was based on racist as well as homophobic At issue in Molissa Fenley's State of Darkness, per­ Tarot. The bare-chested dance was based on the reactions. Bill T. Jones and Arthur Avila created an formed at Alverno College, was a naked chest. The Empress, an image which embodies the many selves image of intimacy shared between a black man and a vigorous solo was conceived by Fenley to be per­ of womanhood. white man. formed only in black tights, like a male ballet dancer. The piece was based on a dream Fenley had in which In the piece's conclusion, she took the egg that she had In the more recent Bill T. Jones performance pre­ Igor Stravinsky asked her to uncover her breasts and been cradling and smashed it against her chest. The sented as part of UWM's Great Artist series at the dance freely to his Rite of Spring. When Stravinsky's impact was startling. The egg and the naked female Pabst Theater Feb. 13, the most controversial portion ballet was first performed in the turbulent Russia of body are ancient symbols of fertility, of life, of longevity, of the program featuring full nudity by a cast of 50 1913, the violent and unconventional quality of the of regeneration. Within some sectors of the African dancers was not presented due to finanical considera­ dancing caused the audience to riot. Perhaps even American community there exists a deeply rooted tions. According to Bruce Marquis, UWM's Director of then he envisioned the dancers half naked. Fine Arts Programming, to include Part 5: The Promised Land, would have cost 11 Frank Miller, Assistant Vice-President of Mar­ •n^l^ff ^^™ UWM an additional $3,000 plus a great keting and Communications at Alverno, asked deal of time in amassing the required 50 Fenley to cover herself, according to sources (many of color) local dancers. Also be­ there. Was a bare chest misconstrued as ••• cause of financial constraits, the live music topless dancing? What is the line between intended to accompany the production pornographic exploitation and artistic free­ was replaced with a tape. I saw this pro­ dom? And the crucial question here is—who gram in Columbus. Young, old, thin, large, decides? black, brown, white, male and female bodies created a rich, slow-moving tap­ Fenley agreed to wear a skin-colored leotard estry. The dancers hummed audibly as above her black tights. According to box they passed one another and cast large office personnel, this option was included in shadows against the backdrop. The Fenley's contract. Miller is not a villain. Per­ audience witnessed unity in diversity, haps he was merely afraid to offend the peaceful interaction, the dream of a true audience or administration at a Catholic insti­ humanity. This followed a violent, angst- tution. But do we want to be protected? Is ridden series of dances in which Ameri­ nudity so disruptive it must be regulated? can racism, gender identy and God's Must the naked body continue to be chained love were questioned and explored. Yet to images of perversity and uncivilized sav­ Milwaukee audiences did not see this agery popularized throughout the Victorian final image of redemption. Even though era and reinforced by the current right-wing UWM's reasons for dropping Part 5 may activities of fundamentalist Christians? have been legitimate and necessary, the result was, again, an incomplete version The idea that the costume of thefemale in any of the production. (Of the entire 19 cities historical period speaks about her position in on the tour, six others were unable to society and her role vis-a-vis the power struc­ present this segment). ture, the family, the man, is relevant. Female roles in Hollywood movies have been studied Very few people in the audience knew extensively by feminist film critics including c Pa/t5was omitted orthat Molissa Fenley UWM's Patricia Mellencamp, who point out »*». Willa Jo Zollar, has done groundbreaking work since content. The graceful duet choreographed and per­ 1984. Based in New York City, this was their Milwau­ formed by Bill T. Jones and Arthur Avila suggested kee premiere. male intimacy. However, there was nothing in the Ann Filemyr, formerly of Milwaukee, is now an Assis­ score or in the movements that graphically portrayed tant Professor at Antioch College. In the solo, Life Dance II (mirror in the waters), Zollar's sexuality. In spite of this, one person demanded (and character undergoes a series of transformations. In a received) a ticket refund because he was offended by ritualistic scene, she discards her dress and wraps the homosexuality inferred by the dance.

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Last year, yet another "festival" was added to ing to a total budget of $240,000. Considering the above points, one could assume Milwaukee's already weighty list of "let's have fun that the festival met its mission statement goals. But and bring tourist dollars to the city" agenda. But this The firstyear , the festival had five members. This what about the actual productions? What do they festival was created with an artistic mission in mind year three more were added. Current members are: reveal about the festival, its chosen venues and and aimed at local audiences as well as Illinois visi­ American Inside Theater, First Stage, Friends Mime, preferred styles? tors. Hansberry Sands, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Next Act, Theatre X, the Pabst and the Performing The first production of the Festival's second year The festival, incorporated in 1989, was initiated by Arts Center. Members must be professional theater was Frederick Knott's thriller Wait Until Dark (Jan. Milwaukee's second tier theater companies. Its groups with a paid staff. 11-13 at the Pabst). Next Generation Theater's goals, according to Jeanne Braun, executive direc­ version of this 1966 play was directed by Wesley tor of the festival, are to provide financial re­ According to Braun, who joined the festival in Savick. In the program notes for the production, sources, increase visibility and expand the audi­ September of 1990, the first year was "successful" Mr. Savick asks the question "What is a thriller?" ence base for small theater groups. "To celebrate, and the shows not only played to "full houses" but and answers in part by saying "We're on the edge develop and support exemplary professional thea­ the festival "showed a profit" (of $21,000). Al­ of our seats, preparing for the time when we ter in Milwaukee through the presentation of an though current figures were not yet available, Braun stumble into a thriller of our own." Although Mr. annual festival of diverse works." estimated that this year's festival did equally well at Savick has directed some fine things in the past the box office. Single ticket purchases were down, (Desire ofthe Moth for the Star, Theatre X), the only Briefly, the organization works like this: the festival but subscriptions were up by 35 percent (411 in edge of my seat that I discovered during the 2 1/2 board reviews a list of plays from member theaters 1990, 523 in 1991). Indeed, for Arsenic and Old hour matinee was the back edge. The production's (each presents two choices for production). The Lace and The Boys Next Door, extra shows had to pacing was extremely slow and the cavernous board then votes on the plays and a season is put Pabst Theater swallowed up any tension this pro­ together. The budget for each show is supplied be added. Generally, all four of this season's pro­ duction might have generated. The quality of the through county, city and corporate funding and is ductions received good press from the two major acting was mediocre. Only Hannah Raasch, who managed by the festival. Any profit or loss is ab­ papers. played the neighbor's little girl, summoned the sorbed by the festival, with each show's budget energy to connect with the other actors and the running approximately $28,000 to $30,000, amount BY MARK BUCHER 26 Art Muscle audience. The Pabst is a beautiful theater, but the tarded men who live in a group home enjoyed a theater scene. As an emerging organization, it entire production drifted in the theater's enormity. receptive run this past season at the Madison Rep­ would be unfair at this time to compare it to other The most entertaining moment arrived after I pur­ ertory. Viewing director Jonathan Smoots' comi­ festivals. I would like, however, to see the shows chased my ticket. (Single rickets were $16 & $14, cally colored interpretation of the play quickly made more financially accessible. At its lowest, $ 11 $ 11 for seniors and students with proper identifica­ brought home why Griffin's play is so popular. The for a ticket is closing the door to many who would tion and the subscription prices averaged $11 per script brings together four men (who are either gladly fill rush seats or occupy bad seats for the show). To my chagrin, I discovered my seat to be retarded, schizophrenic, or manic-depressive) and price Of a movie. Braun expressed agreement on in the last balcony. Obviously, $14 purchased not places them in situations which raise many serious this point. only my ticket, but an ample amount of privacy, as questions about the retarded and the mentally ill in I was the only audience member seated there. I our society. Unfortunately, Griffin's "feel good" promptly slithered to the rail of my section. An script never directly addresses these points and Artistically, the festival's reputation would benefit elderly usher noticed me leaning against the cold never answers or attempts to answer the very from an earnest attempt to "develop" new Wiscon­ brass divider and asked, "Who sold you these issues he raises (sex and sexuality between re­ sin playwrights and original scripts. Politcally, it ticket?, Bob Uecker." In general, NGT's production tarded adults, the basic question of the integration would behoove the festival to include other local of Dark was not an example of "exemplary profes­ and acceptance of the retarded, their desires and companies (the Rep, Skylight, etc.) and to rotate sional theater" as outlined in the festival's mission goals etc.). the member theaters' appearances so the same statement. groups aren't featured year after year. All this would Griffin can obviously write in a comic vein (punch reduce any possibility of an "old boy" network and The next offering, DarioFo's The Accidental Death lines, topper laugh lines, running gags), but his eliminate the homogenized quality present thus far of an Anarchist, was produced by Friends Mime writing manipulates us Theatre (now Milwaukee Public Theatre) at the into feeling we under­ Performing Arts Center's Todd Wehr Theater (Jan. stand the retarded and 18-20). Director Rick Ney set this tragi-comedy of mentally ill by viewing mistaken identity at a rollicking pace and gave his them in Neil Si- actors an abundant supply of physical slapstick. monesque situations. This often worked to the production's advantage, We see how funny but many times at the expense of the script and its these "special" guys subsequent appreciation by the audience. Fo's can be (or cute, or sad), script (successfully adapted by Richard Nelson and but Griffin never dares set in present day Milwaukee) offered the most show us the real hu­ complex writing of the entire festival and this pro­ man tragedy of wasted duction was the most ambitious in tone and scope. and depleted human spirits that can engulf Ney is to be commended for the adventurous relish those closest to the re­ he displayed in his pacing and movement choices tarded. Perhaps his and the unity of style he imposed on a diverse cast. writing talent cannot However, Fo's script had some wonderfully Piran- take us to that bound­ dellian themes at its core and due to the unrelenting ary, or perhaps, flesh­ drive of the pacing (and the never ending drum­ ing out the script with ming by a musician set onstage) and the manic more than just hints of energy instilled into the cast, many of the opportu­ humanity wouldnotbe nities to savor the writer's finer points were overrid­ as commercially suc­ den. Of the cast, Yaakov Sullivan was most able to cessful? Jonathan unify the differing talents of timing (physical and Smoots' direction Laura Gordon & Mark Lazar comic) with the comprehensive verve the script, heightened the com­ The Boys Next Door production and director desired. While the whole edy, elevated the pacing, and framed the "socially in the festival's life. may not have been as successful as some of the important" moments well enough to create an en­ parts, Anarchist completely met the mission joyable show for Milwaukee audiences. The cast The festival has, however, successfully brought statement's requirements of "professional theater" radiated strength, although less so in the smaller theater to new audiences and introduced the and happily complied with the term "diverse works." roles. C. Michael Wright's and Dathan B. William's member theaters to different spaces. Its weak­ portrayals brought a balanced emotional range to nesses, besides ticket price, include a lack of daring Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's production of Jo­ their roles that introduced dignity and basic truth scripts and the absence of a sense of challenge and seph Keselring's Arsenic and Old Lace (Jan. 25-27, into an otherwise morally bankrupt piece. One adventure. A large segment of the current and Pabst) was the third production. Unlike Dark, supposes that if only one audience member be­ potential audience wishes only to be entertained— Arsenic was well-suited for the intimidating Pabst comes more open to the rights and plight of the not challenged—and their desires have box office and set designer Skelly Warren made great use of retarded and mentally ill, then the script has suc­ impact. Yet these theater goers might begin to the space with his large staircases and expansive ceeded. appreciate more adventurous scripts and styles if playing areas. Although director William McKer- they were introduced, for example, to companies eghan made good use of Warren's designs, he After viewing this comedy (and it is funny) the from other cities, scripts that occasionally offend, failed to solve a crucial problem this 50-year-old Milwaukee audience sailed past the many people minority directors (not one director this year was a play delivers to both audience and director alike: its in wheelchairs, seemingly oblivious to what the person of color or a female) and the list could go on length. The comedy ran almost three hours and previous two hours were about. I myself won­ and on. The festival is necessary, and it can grow while still serving up some memorable comic char­ dered if I had learned anything new, when an to be more and more necessary by branching out acters and situations, it also dished out unnecessary acting student I knewcame up to me raving about into these artistic nooks and crannies. Isn't that subplots and more narrative than necessary to keep the play and a production of it she had seen in what a festival does — showcase the new and the this comic chestnut afloat. Theatrically saavy Ruth Madison. I asked her if she might play one of the different and the exciting? With over $120,000 Schudson exercised her ability to comically punch supporting roles and she replied that she could being spent on the shows themselves, greater at­ and top a line in her portrayal of the homicidal Aunt easily play Sheila (a young, retarded woman) tention should be focused on making the festival Abby, but the remainder of the cast seemed unable because she's "always played RETARDS." So much unique. to escape the dull boxiness of the writing or rele­ for enlightenment gated themselves to reincarnating the tones and I did not enjoy everything the festival produced this colors set by the movie, the televised versions, the Did the Theatre Festival meet its goals and objec­ year, but during my conversation with Braun, her touring companies the dinner theater productions, tives? It did sustain and enhance civic and artistic excitement about the arts was truly invigorating the stock productions, college, high school... AD collaboration with new groups participating, and and genuine. Braun's enthusiasm leads me to INFINITUM! The credits of the cast assure us increased corporate participation. It certainly believe that the festival is capable of not only talent, and both cast and director fulfilled the provided financial resources, as many union and meeting goals and objectives, but of fulfilling its demands of the script adequately, but it is difficult non-union actors and staff found employment, mission statement. I hope that she and the festival's to consider the term "exemplary" and a production and putting up four shows in union houses does board, and the member theaters AND the audi­ of Arsenic having anything to do with each other; not come cheap. The festival increased visibility ences (who should demand more vibrant and chal­ although it is not impossible. Surely there are more for the member theaters and increased its subscrip­ lenging work. CALL them!) Otherwise, the festival's "diverse" comedies that could mutually capture the tion base. Whether or not it attracts new audiences productions are just a dress rehearsal for the real simplicity audiences enjoy and the blue chip qual­ for the member theaters remains to be seen. thing. >*». ity box offices love. Is the mission statement fulfilled? At this point in Next year's lineup includes: Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoc­ The final weekend of the Festival featured Theatre the festival's young life, it is not producing any eros by TheatreX, Oscar Wilde's /fcelmportance of Being Tesseract's production of Tom Griffin's The Boys dramatically new or different forms of theater. This Ernest by Next Act Theatre, Michael Gazzo's A Hatful of Next Door (Feb. 1-3, Todd Wehr Theater). Boys year's scripts, with the exception of Anarchist, Rain by American Inside Theatre and Aaron Sorkin'sA proved to be so popular that an extra show was were the tried and not so true forms of entertain­ Few Good Men by Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. added. 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Wisconsin; 765-2566. lery of Fine Arts, 300 S 6th; 414/334-9638 Newburg, WI; 414/675-2341 Now-May 4 Now-March 30 Contemporary Oriental Images April 5-May 19 April 26-May 30 14th Annual Student Art Exhibition Traditional & Neo-Deco Japanese & Chinese Nancy Spero & Leon Golub Exposure '91 258 works from schools in north central Wis­ prints; Larson Art Gallery, 790 N Jackson; Recentworks on human rights issues; opening Juried show of works by area adults over 60; consin; also works from Very Special Arts Wis­ 277-9797 reception Apr 5 8-10pm; UWM: Art Museum; opening reception Apr 26; War Memorial consin; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, 229-6310 Center, 750 N Lincoln Memorial Drive; info Franklin & 12th; Wausau; 715/845-7010 Now-May 5 ARTREACH 271 -4704 or 271 -5185 (TDD) The Art of Paul Manship April 6-June 30 Now-March 31 Over 120 works spanning the career of re­ Ideas/Images April 27-May 11 George Green nowned Art Deco sculptor; MAM: Journal/ New works by contemporary Wisconsin art­ A Sense of Place: Posner Gallery, 207 N Milwaukee; 277-3097 Lubar Galleries; 271 -9508 ists; opening reception Apr 5 5-7:30pm; MAM: Photographs from China & Bali Cudahy Gallery; 271-0508 Paul Latowsky; UW-Platteville: Harry Nohr Now-March 31 Now-May 5 Gallery, 1 University Plaza, Platteville; 608/ National Broadside Exhibition Fashion & Furnishings in the Age of Mozart April 7-28 342-1398 Letterpress printed; from collegiate & private Period costumes, ceramics, furniture, silver, League of Milwaukee Artists presses; UWM: Fine Arts Gallery; 229-4946 works on paper, paintings & sculpture; MAM: 39th annual juried exhibition; opening recep­ April 27-May 29 Teweles Gallery; 271 -9508 tion Apr 7 1 -5 pm; $2; Charles Allis Art Mu­ Valerie Christell & John Ford Now-March 31 seum, 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 Opening reception Apr 27 7-10pm; Metro­ 5th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition Now-May 12 politan Gallery, 900 S 5th; 672-4007 80 small-scale prints from around the nation; Religious Visionaries April 7-May 12 West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, 300 S 6th, Norbert Kox, Rev Mary Le Ravin, & Simon 100 Years of National Geographic May 1-26 West Bend; 414/334-9638 Sparrow; JM Kohler Arts Center, 608 New 161 photographs; opening reception Apr 7 Creating Beyond Limitations York Ave, Sheboygan; 414/458-6144 1:30-3:30pm; Uihlein-Peters Gallery, 1840 N Gladys Barry, Bernard Brennan, Dan Gir- Now-March 31 Prospect; 291-4991 ouard, Janet McCallum & Robert Rycroft; re­ League of Milwaukee Artists Show Now-May 27 ception May 5 1:30-4pm; West Bend Gallery St John Uihlein-Peters Gallery, 1840 N Pros­ Kristine Gunther & The Group of Six April 7-May 18 of Fine Arts, 300 S 6th; 414/334-9638 pect; 272-2618 Artists working under the guidance of Gunther: Linda Plotkin, New Monoprints NeyTaitFraser,MaryMellowes, Sophie Parker, Adolph Rosenblatt, Ten Minutes Maximum May 4-31 Now-April 5 MonaSchudson, Hi Ida Stern & Diane Sweitzer; Opening reception Apr 7 3-5:30pm; Peltz Jeff Noska Senior Undergraduate Show opening reception March 17 1-3pm; Piano Gallery,! 119 E Knapp; 223-4278 Wheel-thrown stoneware & porcelain; recep­ UWM: Union Art Gallery; 229-6310 Gallery, 219 N. 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April 19 & 20 March 26-May 9 Linda Caldwell Mozart At The Movies Performance related to Mneme XXXII installa­ Mar 26 - Don Giovanni tion; Walkers Point Center for the Arts, 911 W Mar 28 - Kind Hearts & Coronets National; 673-2787 Apr 2 - Babette's Feast Apr 16 - The Rules of the Game April 20 Apr 25 - 5 Easy Pieces & Breathless A Look At The Americas May 2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday 414 • 289•071$ Argentine artists perform Tangos, bombos, May 7 - Amadeus malambos, & boledoras; 8pm; $9-$l 4; Alverno May 9 - The Magic Flute College, 3401 S. 39th; 382-6044 7:30pm; $3; PAC: Vogel Hall; 273-7206

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May 17 & 18 March 23 & April 28 Watercolor Workshop Great Lakes Opera With Washington state artist Eric Wiegardt; The Three Marys, Stabat Mater, & Mozart; 9am-4pm; West Bend Gallery of Fine Arts, Mar 24 8pm at Mount Mary College; Apr 28 300 S 6th, West Bend; 414/334-9638 2pm at Grand Av Congregational Church; 962-9500

March 23-24 I i t Mass in B Minor Bel Canto Small Group Sa 8:pm, Su 7:30pm; $6-$l 6; Pabst Theater, Mondays 144 E.Wells; 278-3663 Poef s Monday Open mike & featured acts; open to poets & March 24 musicians; Cafe Melange, 720 Old World Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Continuing: "Remarkable Women" to March 23rd Third Street; 291 -9889 Sacred Music Concert; call 272-8540for detail s Show includes The "Circus Quilt" by Anne Kingsbury Ceramic and Leather 8' x 12' March 21 March 24 Opening Sunday, April 7th 3:00-5:30 p.m. Irish Fest Theatre Knightwind Ensemble Spring Concert Evening with Patrick Ball; Harper & Storyteller; Work of Morton Gould, Martin Dalby & others; Linda Plotkin/New Monotypes 8pm; Club Garibaldi, 2501 S. Superior; 258- 3pm; $4; PAC: Vogel Hall; info 382-6372 Adolph Rosenblatt/"Ten Minutes Maximum" 9349 March 24 Artist's talk 3:30 p.m. March 23 William Black, piano; 2pm; Piano Gallery, Also Gallery Group Show: Colescott, Cramer, Kwint, Matson, Mulhern, Blues Seance 219 N Milwaukee; 276-3525 Paschke(Newl), Sayers, and others. Martin Jack Rosenblum & the Blues Rider Band Peltz Gallery Poetry & music; $10 (proceeds benefit Golda March 28-30 1119 E. Knapp St. Milwaukee, WI. 53202 414-223-4278 Meir Library; 7:30pm; UWM: Golda Meir Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Library, 4th Fir Conference Center; 229-4308 Alexander Schneider, Conductor Chamber Music Program; Th 11 am F,Sa 8pm; April 10 $12-$43; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Mornings on Horseback by David McCullough Jo McReynolds-Bjochowiak reviews biogra­ March 28 & 31 HARRY W. SCHWARTZ BOOKSHOPS phy of Theodore Roosevelt; 1 pm; free; East Milwaukee Symphony Chorus Library, 1910 E North Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Milwaukee's Independent Bookseller Since 1927 Handel: Messiah; call for info 273-7206 April 12 Earth Day Benefit April 2 Poetry reading; Coffeehouse, 19th & Wiscon­ Civic Music Association WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP sin; info 273-0922 Lerner & Loewe's Camelot presented by the FEATURING THE GRIEVING SPIRITS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Milwaukee Entertainment League; 7:30pm; April 26 PAC; Uihlein Hall; 278-8295 Poetry Reading Debra Kay Vest & Marilyn Taylor; 8pm; April 2-7 Haunting, p'pp Woodland Pattern, 720 E Locust; info 263- Premiere Fest: 5001 20th Century Chamber Music Festival Bizarre. Apr 2 - Woodwind Arts Quintet & UWM May 8 Percussion Ensemble; 8pm; $6/$3; Now back in print, Those Extraordinary Blackwells by Elinor Rice Apr 3 - UWM Voice Faculty & Enesco Piano Michael Lesly's Hays; Jo McReynolds-Blochowiak reviews Quartet; 8pm; $6/$3; cult classic about fife group biography; lpm; free; East Library, Apr 4 - Music from Almost Yesterday; 8pm; in a small, turn-of-the-century 1910 E North Apr 5 - Kronos Quartet; 8pm; $15 & $18; Wisconsin town is a dramatic look Pabst Theater at the underside Apr 6 - Mercury Wind Quintet & Christopher of rural frontier America. $16.95 PAPERBACK (A price to die for.) String Quartet Apr 7 - Fine Arts Quartet; 3pm; $10; UWM DOWNTOWN WHITEFISH BAY BROOKFIELD DOWNTOWN Recital Hall Pass available $30/$20 (excludes Apr 7); 274-6400 962-7997 786-8017 274-6410 UWM: Recital Hall (unless noted); 229-4308 35 April 5 April 21 Kronos Quartet Sheboygan Area Youth Symphony Mini-performance and discussion open to the 3pm; JM Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York, public; I2:30-I:30pm; free; UWM: Recital Hall Sheboygan; 414/458-6144

April 5-7 April 21 A.R.C. Gallery Milwaukee Symphony Superpops UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band Exhibition space available for one person, Smothers Brothers; F Sa 8pm, Su 7:30pm; Thmoas Dvorak, Conductor, 7:30pm; $6/$3; group shows or installations for the '91 -'92 PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 PAC: Vogel Hall; 229-4308 calendar. Slide deadline May 15. Send SASE or call (312) 733-2787. April 5 April 21 VIDEOGRAPHY A.R.C. Gallery First Friday UWM Concert Chorale Professional studio providing the best in 1040 W. Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60622 videography services. Art shows, plays, dance, Live jazz, cash bar, complementary munchies; Robert Porter, Conductor; 3pm; $4/$2; UWM: performances. We even do weddings! Skillfully 5:30pm; $3/$4; MAM; 271 -9508 Recital Hall; 229-4308 filmed on Super VHS format.

CHARTIER IMAGES April 6 April 22 Women of the Calabash Robert Thompson, Bassoon Milwaukee, Wi •414-272-6106 Interpretive music played on handmade acous­ 8pm; $4/$2; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 tic instruments; 8pm; $8-$16; Alverno Col­ lege, 3401 S. 39th; 382-6044 April 24 Soudscaping Concert April 7 Experimental music composition; Gregpria MODELING Artist wanted to share 600 sq. Showcase Milwaukee! Karides Suchy, Director; 8pm; free; UWM: I am available for modeling. Life foot studio space. Skylight, The best of Milwaukee playing dassical to Recital Hall drawing classes, private sittings, historic building in Wauwatosa. jazz; 2?6pm; $7/$5 (adv); War Memorial anything. 774-3802 ask for Mary Center, 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 327-0829 April 24 Call Dick Bacon • 645-6226 UWM University Band April 7 John Blueul, Conductor UWM Jazz Ensemble 12:30pm; free; UWM: Union Concourse What's It Worth? Curt Hanrahan, Director; 7:30pm; $6/$3; Experienced and Qualified Appraiser of Paintings, Furniture, Art Objects, and UWM Union Wisconsin Room; 229-430 April 25, 27 & 28 Collectibles from the 18th through the 20th Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro century for Insurance values and Sales Purposes. April 7 Florentine Opera Company Timothy Kuehn UWM Institute of Chamber Music Th 7:30pm Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; $14-$48; 1847 N. Prospect Ave. #7 Milw. WI 53202 ART LIQUIDATION Mercury Wind Quintet; 3pm; free; Villa Ter­ PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 (414)278-1197 Assorted original graphics and posters. race, 2220 N Terrace ERTE, Galle, Bau, McKnight, Doyle April 25 and more. . . April 8 UWM Symphony Orchestra Viewing by appointment. Early Music Now Margery Deutsch, Conductor Catherine Davidson - (414) 964-5558 Theater of Voices with conductor Paul Hillier; 12:30pm; free; UWM: Union Concourse PO Box 11756, Milwaukee, WI 53211 8pm; $12-$ 14; Milwaukee Public Library: Centennial Hall, 733 N 8th; 271-3335 April 27 UWM Symphony Orchestra Seven Day Portrait Workshop April 12-21 Winners of the 1991 UWM Concerto compe­ Smoking Weight Control Margaret Carter Baumgaertner Four Centuries of Deceit: tition, Margery Deutsch, conductor; 8pm; $7/ Self-confidence Love Addiction (Master Portraits: Oil - Pen/Ink Operatic Scenes of Treachery & Betrayal $3.50; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 Procrastination Pain Control April 27-May 3,1991 UWM opera; work of Monteverdi, Prokofiev, Anxiety Study Skills For information and registration Bellinin & Mozart; F,Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; $5; April 28 »Anorexia/Bulimia Sleep LF Elliott (Agent) - 871-3184 UWM: Fine Arts Studio Theatre; 229-4308 John Harbison CALL Milw Symphony Chamber Singers Edie Raether, M.S., Psychotherapist April 14 PRESENT Music; 7:30pm; $10; St Paul's Epis­ 278-8959 design Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra copal Church, 914 E Knapp; 271 -0711 Chamber ensembles; works of Mozart & oth­ ers; 7pm; $3; Immanuel Presbyterian Church, April 28 Brew Your Own Beer! 1110 NAstor; 272-8540 Sheboygan South High Symphony Discover the joy of homebrewing! take chances 3pm; JM Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York, With the Home Brewery, make delicious, natural, April 14 Sheboygan; 414/458-6144 homemade beer for just pennies a bottle! German Baroque Plus Perfect gift idea. MacDowell Club of Milwaukee; organ pro­ April 28 For more information call gram; 3pm; Memorial Lutheran Church, Green Historical Keyboard Society 342-0656 Bay & Range Line Rd Igor Kipnis, harpsichordist; works of Mozart & Jellystone Beer Co. Milwaukee, WI others; 7:30pm; $15; UWM Recital Hall; 229- April 14 4308 Cream City Chorus Anniversary Concert; 3pm; $5; New Hope April 28 United Church of Christ, 1418 W. Greenfield; UWM University Band 344-9222 John Bleuel, Conductor; 7:30pm; $6/$3; UWM: Union Wisconsin Room; 229-4308 April 14 ^l^^^^S^^^^I^?3S?. Opera Preview April 28 Mozart Marriage of Figaro Great Lakes Opera Company u p p I i Opera highlights & plot explanation; antici­ Mount Mary Madrigal Singers Language Center pates full production by Florentine Opera; 2pm; Grand Avenue Congregational Church 2:30pm; UWM: Recital Hall; tickets 332-8579 International April 28 Communication by Design April 14 UWM Choirs Phyllis Stringham, Organist Susanna-Maria Schaus, Director; 3pm; $6/ Language Courses Given by Native Speakers 3pm; $5; Cathedral of St John, 812 N Jackson; $3; 229-4308 • 224-0250 Translations, Interpretations, Cultural April 28 Orientation, Organized Trips Abroad April 16 Civic Music Association • Artist Series at the Pabst Metropolitan Opera Auditions; 1990 District Plus, A Complete Library - Books and Tapes CUSTOM FRAMING Camerata Lysy Gsfaad, Swiss chamber or­ finalist; 2:30pm; Villa Terrace, 2220 N Ter- (video and Audio) free for our students chestra performs Mozart, Vivaldi & Bach; 8pm; AT AFFORDABLE PRICES $10-$22; Pabst Theatre, 144 E Wells; 278- For complete details call: 442-0592 1668 N. Warren Ave. M-W-F 10-6 3663 April 29 (Off Brady & Farwell) T-Th 12-7 Broadway & Operetta Favorites Milwaukee, WI 53202 Sat 12-4 April 17 UWM faculty & guests perform; 8pm; $6/$3; Jeffrey Siegel Keyboard Conversations UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 Two Familiar Mozart Sonatas; 8pm; $10-14 ; PAC: Vogel Hall; 273-7206 6TTrp. S3 April 30 Ralph Votapek, Piano April 19 Artist Series at the Pabst; 8pm; $10-$22; 144 Inti lllimani E Wells; 278-3663 Chilean musical ensemble; strings & vocals; Sound-Sound Recording 8pm; $13 & $16; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; April 30 ART MUSCLE 229-4308 Music with Percussion Ensemble 672-S666 Pavel Burda, Conductor;! 2:30pm; free;UWM : classifieds April 20-21 Union Art Gallery Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Zdenek Macal, Conductor April 30 David Gringas, Cellist Sylvan Wnds Track Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $12-$43; PAC: Uihlein Mozart's oboe & flute quartets; 7:30pm; $8/ Inch Hall; 273-7206 $7; St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 914 E Knapp; 276-5838 April 21 Milwaukee Civic Symphony Orchestra May 2 Next Issue All Mozart; 2:30pm; $6-$7.50; MATC: Cooley Chamber Music Concert Auditorium; 276-0615 Call for entries May 15-July 15 8pm; $4/$2; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 City of Rockford, IL requests sculpture proposals for its Veteran's Memorial Hall. $50,000 Deadline: April 20 April 21 May 3 budget. A complete Request for Proposal Claudia Schmidt Chamber Choir of Heidesheim available through Purchasing Department, Att. Ray Gaziano, City of Rockford, 425 E. State St., Gil-Scott Heron & Amnesia Express Bruno Leoff, Conductor; 7:30pm; $5; Cathe­ Rockford, IL 61104 CALL • 672-8485 Earth Day benefit; 7pm; $16 ($14 advance); dral of St John, 812 N Jackson; 224-0250 (815)987-5560 UWM: Union Ballroom; info 332-7600 Reference RFP number 391CD-027 36 Art Muscle May 3-4 Now-March 24 Milwaukee Choristers Adrift Mozart & Figaro arrangement; 8pm; $7-$9; Judy Montague RECYCLE Pabst Theatre, 144 E Wells; 278-3663 American Inside Theatre; based on a true story of shipwreck & survival; Su,T 2pm, W-F 8pm, mports OR. DIE! May 3,4,6 Sa 5 & 9pm; $11 & $14; Carroll College: Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Otteson Theatre, Waukesha; 414/968-4555 CASH FOR CLOTHE/ Morton Gould, Conductor Unique gifts from Aleksie Sultanov, Pianist; F,Sa 8pm M 7:30pm; Now-March 30 $12-$43; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Living Fat • Costa Rica • Hansberry-Sands Theater Company • Dominican Republic • May 5 Th-Su 8pm; $12; Lincoln Center for the Arts, • Haitian Art • Milwaukee Concert Band 820 E Knapp; 272-PLAY • Wooden Jewelry • Patricia Wellman, Conductor Music of Wagner & Makris; 3pm; Alverno Now-April 7 • Pottery • College: Pitman Theatre, 3401 S 39th; tickets Driving Miss Daisy • Puzzle Jewelry Boxes • 895-6163 Alfred Uhry Milwaukee Repertory; Tu,W7:30pm Th,F 8pm, 1938 North Farwell Ave. May 10-11 Sa 5 & 9pm; Su 2 & 7:30pm; $5-$20; Power­ 271-9599 Bel Canto Chorus house Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 STORE HOUR/ Mozart, Penderecki, & Vaughan Williams "Come Explore The Rain Forest" performed with winners of 1990 Bel Canto March 17 N-TH:II-6 Regional ArtistCompetition; 8pm; $6-16; Pabst Irish Fest Theatre SAT 110-6 BUYING HOUR/ Theater, 144 E. Wells; 278-3663 Singers, musicians, dancers & storytellers bring SUN -11-5 T-THM-4 ancient Celtic folk drama & legend to life; $6; May 12 Club Garibaldi, 2501 S. Superior; 258-9349 Greater Milwaukee Youth Wind Ensemble & BUY-SELL-TRADE Cleveland Youth Wind Ensemble March 22-30 2217 N. FARWELL A World premiere of work by David Holsinger; The Tempest 7:30; Pabst Theatre, 144 E Wells; 278-3663 William Shakespeare Dale Gutzman Productions May 14 F,Sa 8pm; $13; PAC: Vogel Hall; 273-7206 Sylvan Winds Amadeus Harmonie performs Mozart; 7:30; April 4-22 $8/$7; PAC: Vogel Hall; 273-7206 I'm Not Rappaport v Sunset Playhouse; Th,F 8pm, Sa 6 & 9pm, Su mi 7pm; $7.50; 800 Elm Grove Road, Elm Grove; 782-4430

April 514 March 28-30 Alone Together Manual Lawrence Roman Mark Anderson Shorewood Players; F,Sa 8pm; Shorewood 8pm; Stiemke Theatre, 108 E Wells; info Alverno Auditorium, Oakland & Capitol; 332-6944 College: 382-6044 April 11,12,13 to April 26 The Butler Did What? Flying Karamazov Brothers BS Productions; Th 7:30 F,Sa 8pm; $6/$4; 1340 W. Towne Sq. Rd. Juggling toasters, chickens, meat cleavers; 8pm; Greendale HS: Henry Ross Auditorium, 6801 $17 & $20; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229- Southway; info 535-1279 Mequon 4308 April 12-20 241-9589 April 5-20 The Lion in Winter Sex & the Circus James Goldman What I Know So Far West Allis Players; F,Sa 8pm; $4 & $5; Central Debbie Davis & Lisa Saunders Auditorium, 8516 W Lincoln; 543-6725 F,Sa 8pm; $8 ($6 advance); preview Apr 4 $5; Lincoln Center for the Arts; 820 E Knapp; info April 14,20,28 & May 4 372-5192 Play to Win: The Jackie Robinson Story First Stage Milwaukee; Sa 1 & 3pm, Su 1:30 & 3:30pm; $6-$8:50; PAC: Todd Wehr Theater; MA1DISOM CA'LBMOAR 273-7206 ART EXHIBITIONS April 26-June 16 April 17-28 The Drunkard, or Down With Demon Drink COBRA & Friends; Elvehjem Museum of Art Alechinsky, Appel, Corneille, Dubuffet, Him- Now-March 22 Brian J Burton Now-March 24 melfarb, Lindstrom Miro & Bram van Velde; Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde Comedy/musical premiered in 1843 by P T Irish Decorative Arts fromn the National Mu­ 1150 Spaight Street; 608/255-3043 First Stage Milwaukee; M-F 10am & 12:30pm; Barnum; Marquette University; W-Sa 8pm, Su seum of Ireland PAC: Todd Wehr Theater; info 273-7206 2:30pm; $7/$6; Evan P & Marion Helfaer Now-March 31 Theater, 525 N 13th; 224-7504 Valperine Gallery Works on Paper by Sarah Schumann Now-March 25 Now-March 23 April 6-may 19 Coming of Spring Haven for the Disillusioned April 18-May 12 Chiaroscuro Prints from the Frank Horlbeck Group show of gallery artists; Samuel Beckett Few Are Chosen Collection April 6-20 Next Act Theatre John Pawinski Layton Woodcuts of primarily classical subject matter; Expressionistic review; poems & songs; Th,F Acacia Theatre Company; women coming to From Impressionism to the Abstract April 13-June 2 Adrienne Michel Sager & Evelyn Terry; recep­ 8pm, Sa 4:30 & 8:30, Su 2pm; Centennial terms with their choices; Th-Sa 8pm Su 3pm; Jakob Ignaz Hittorff: tion Apr 5 6-8pm; 1719 Monroe; 608/256- Hall, 733 N 8th; 278-7780 $7-11; 3300 N Sherman; 223-4996 Architectural Drawings & Watercolors of Paris 4040 & Rome; 800 University; 608/263-2246 Now-March 23 April 19-May 12 LECTURES Translations Twelfth Night Grace Chosy Gallery Brian Friel William Shakespeare Now-March 23 Madison Art Center UWM Professional Theater Training Program Boulevard Ensemble; directed by Amy Zeh; F- Wlliam Weege, Recent Work March 22 British soldiers attempt to anglicize an Irish Su 8pm; $8; 2250 S Kinnickinnic; 672-6019 April 5-27 town; preview Mar 6 8pm; $6; W-Sa 8pm, Su Kathryn Howarth Ryan; Gallery Talk on the Dagny Quisling Myrah, Prints & Paintings 2:30pm; $8-10; UWM: Studio Theater; 229- April 20-May 5 permanent collection; 12:15pm; free May 3-25 April 2 4308 Mud Alberta Marana, Pastel Drawings Maria Irene Fornes James Van Deurzen, glass sculptor; Artists on Opening receptions Apr 5 & May 3 6-8pm; Now-March 23 Milwaukee Repertory Theater; a woman's at­ Art Series; noon (reservations required; in­ My Emperor's New Clothes tempt to change her life by learining to read; 218 N Henry; 608/255-1211 cludes lunch); First Stage Milwaukee T,W 7:30pm, Sa 5 & 9pm, Su 2 & 7:30pm; $7- April 7 Jura Silverman Gallery F 7:30pm, Sa 1 & 3pm, Su 1:30 & 3:30pm; $12; Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Janica Yoder; Art Talk on the photography Now-April 30 $6-$8:50; PAC: Todd Wehr Theater; 273- collection; 1:30pm; free; Life In Wisconsin April 20 7206 April 26-May 4 Rumi OBrien, quilts & woven rugs; Working: The Musical Computer Art Workshop 143 S Washington; Spring Green; 608/588- 11 am- 12:30pm; $4/$3 members; preregis- Now-March 24 Based on the Studs Terkel book; F,Sa 8pm plus 7049 tration recommended; 211 State; 608/257- A Little Tomfoolery 10am May 2; $12; UW-Parkside: Studio 0158 Tom Lehrer Theatre, Kenosha; info 414/553-2278 Madison Art Center Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Stackner Caba­ Now-April 7 UW-Madison University Outreach ret; W, Su 7:30pm Th,F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm; May 1-11 Phantom Cities March 25 $6.50 & $8; 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Summer & Smoke Rita Myers, Installation; also Tennessee Williams Copyright Workshop Young at Art, Works in all media by students Now-March 24 Professional Theater Training Program 9am-4pm; $85 from the Madison Metropolitan School District- Cole W-Sa 8pm, Su 2:30pm; $8-10; UWM: Fine April 24 May 4-August 4 Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa Arts Theatre; 229-4308 How to Publish Your Own Book Frank Lloyd Wright: 8pm; $5/$4; Plank Road School, 9508 W 9am-4pm; $95 In the Realm of Ideas Watertown Plank; info 425-2076 May 2-10 Wisconsin Center, 702 Langdon; info Christine Text panels, photographs scale models, origi­ The Little Mermaid DeSmet 608/262-3447 nal drawings & art pieces plus a special video Now-March 24 M & W Productions; Tu-F 10am, plus May 4 presentation; THEATER Going Forward Backward 12noon; $4.50; MATC: Cooley Auditorium, 211 State; 608/257-0158 Milwaukee Repertory Theater 1015 N 6th; 272-7701 Madison Repertory Theatre T,W 7:30pm, Sa 5 & 9pm, Su 2 & 7:30pm; $7- Spaightwood Galleries Now-April 7 $12; Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 May 10-19 Now—March 17 Speed the Plow George Washington Slept Here A Matter of Scale: Size in Prints Kaufmann & Hart David Mamet March 22-April 21 $12-50-15; Isthmus Playhouse, 211 State; Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa; 8pm; $5/ Three Emerging Artists 608/266-9055 $4; Plank Rood School, 9508 W Watertown Anita Jung, Phyllis, McGibbon & Jean Sanders Plank; info 425-2076 37 ooncV

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By Michelle Grabner which functions as a human substitute, is not only his artistic production, the exhi­ the language inherent to the art object. forever bound (within Peltz's composi­ bition also recognized Moholy-Nagy's NOINK PIGMENTLESS, a diptych com­ tion) to the phone. A sense of helpless efforts as a teacher and commercial de­ No longer with the Zolla/Lieberman posed of black type on a pink ground, anticipation floods this painting in the signer. Displaying works by students Gallery, Wisconsin artist Dennis Nechva­ makes light of the language that consti­ same manner as the deChirico-type light­ who worked under him at Chicago's tutes the piece. The show continues tal mounted his first show with Chicago's ing isolates the domestic iconography. In Institute of Design in the '40s and mount­ through March 30. Phyllis Kind Gallery during the month of ing commercial projects among his sculp­ February. Nechvatal's continuous flirta­ tures, paintings and photograms, curator tion with the visual styles of the early 20th Snake Out '91, presented by SisterSer- Terry Suhre compiled a succinct and com­ century results in work which negotiates pents in conjunction with the Sister Ser­ prehensive look at an enigmatic artist and a heightened celebration of decorative pent Show at Artemisia Gallery through­ designer. In his book, Vision in Motion, devices with an expressive and haunting out the month of February provided three Moholy-Nagy wrote: "There is no hierar­ spiritualism. Self-consciously primitive cabaret-type forums for discussion and chy of art, painting, photography, music, and blatant in historical references, his commiseration. Film and video screen­ poetry, sculpture, architecture, nor any canvases expand beyond an agenda of ings, as well as performance pieces other fields such as industrial design. They appropriation into courageous and often comprised these Snake-Out Cabarets. are equally valid departures toward the outrageous interpretations of figure and SisterSerpents, a Chicago-based feminist fusion of function and content in design." landscape. As in Henri Rousseau's The coalition responsible for the haunting pro- Dream, Nechvatal's Muse #1 places a choice posters that showed up around reclining female nude in the dense foli­ Polonius: What do you read my lord? the city less than a year ago, sponsored an age of a forest. The facets of paint which Hamlet: words, words, words. This text exhibition of work that calls for a radical graces the wall of the Insam Gleicher repositioning of women within social constitute Nechvatal's vegetation often Lorraine Peltz, Chair and Phone, 7990 transform into peering eyes, similar to the Gallery while the wall opposite this vis­ structure, preferably a social structure beasts staring through Rousseau's jungle. addition to an exhibition of Peltz's work, ual riddle sports the other half of the without men. Violent, bloody and The reflection of a mask-like head in the the Evanston Art Center featured the work piece—a black and white film still of Mel graphic, the theme of castration prevailed. stream that flows across the bottom of of collaborators Simon Grennan and Gibson taken from his recent movie A penis with razor blades stuck into its Nechvatal's painting becomes a surro­ Christopher Sperandio. Embellishing endeavor, Hamlet. The piece, titled The clay side, a penis constructed of a blow­ gate for Rousseau's lion. However, un­ public sculptures and monuments with Pen is Mightier from 1991 is one of up baseball bat emerging from two bas­ like Rousseau's whimsical directness, pastries and confections, artists Grennan several works by Kay Rosen that merge ketballs, erect in paintings, discussed in Nechvatal's paintings sport a cynical and and Sperandio tempt the viewer into re­ linguistics with a cool and conceptual pamphlets—the image of the penis was often suspicious handling of the figure. thinking the significance of public monu­ visual language. Slick in presentation everywhere. While no particular work Confrontational bodies and heads are ments. The propagandists motives and display, the word games Rosen en­ stood out as successfully illuminating the stripped of their human qualities by his behind these monuments are reevalu­ courages us to play and solve turn in on political agenda with a high degree of own formal appropriations and inven­ ated when they are donned with choco­ the production of the work itself. Where craft and artistic vision, the anger and tions. This latest body of work walks a late top hats and beautiful candy wreaths. Richard Prince employs jokes with overt frustration behind each individual state­ fine line between expressive figuration The works are often humorous and witty social stereotypes, Rosen's puns embrace ment was undeniable and powerful. and formal innovation. and needless to say very temporary. The notion of permanence vs. transience is also questioned in this series of sweet The ache and frustration associated with assaults. Yet, as sweet and harmless as the absence of human companionship is the work appears, the silent tie between echoed throughout the oil paintings by the aristocratic taste for petit fours (and Lorraine Peltz. Depicting domestic the ir fashion) and funding for monuments interiors with spare furnishings and ac­ is also underscored. Both exhibitions ran coutrements, Peltz presents the viewer through February 27. with iconography that is at once familiar and sad. A small painting titled Chair The State of Illinois Gallery paid tribute to and Phone reveals a simple bent-wood the man who brought the Bauhaus tradi­ chair in awkward proximity to a white tion and Constructivism to Chicago in an telephone resting on the floor. Casting a exhibition titled Moholy-Nagy: A New heavy and animated shadow, the chair, Vision for Chicago. Acknowledging Dennis Nechvatal, Muse #1, 1990

EXHIBITIONS Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd April 6-June 9 Ratner Gallery Now-April 12 Jean-Pierre Raynaud; retrospective of French Now-April 26 ARC Gallery pli ON pli: Mary Ahrendt sculptor; 237 E Ontario; 312/280-5161 Joumana Mourad, paintings; April 2-27 750 N Orleans; 312/642-8611 May 3-June 5 Jane Stevens, photographs; Andrea Rountree, Museum of Contemporary Photography Elvira Bach, neo-expressionist paintings; open­ paintings & drawings; Anne Alaughter, paint­ Galerie Thomas R Monahan March 30-May 25 ing May 3 5-7pm; 750 N Orleans; 312/944- ings & sculpture; Toby Greenberg, mixed April 1-30 Irving Penn Master Images 8884 media; Michael Langton, installation; Valerie Peter Saul: The Founding Father of Pop Art;301 600 S Michigan; 312/663-5544 Burke, photographs; 1040 W Huron; 312/ W Superior; 312/266-7530 Rockford Art Museum 733-2787 N.A.M.E. Gallery March 22-May 8 Gallery Ten Now-March 22 Solo Series 1991; Brigid Finucane; opening Art Institute of Chicago April 19-May 24 Divide And Multiply; Cheryl Bailey, Tom Den- Mar 22 5:30-8:30 Now-April 21 Botanies linger, KateGlazer, Matthew Groshek, & Renee April 7-Mayl 9 New Acquisitions: Modernist Photography Response to the world of plants; opening Apr McPhail share an interest in multiplicity; The Cutting Edge Year 50; Young Artists Show Now-May 9 19 5-9pm; 514 E State, Rockford; 815/964- 700 N. Carpenter; 312/226-0671 Mayl2-July21 Photographs of John Ffahl 1743 Robert McCauley: sculpture & drawings; open­ Now-May 12 Nancy Lurie Gallery ing Ma 31 5:30-7:30pm High and Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture Hokin Kaufman Gallery Now-April 13 711 N Main, Rockford; 815/965-3131 Now-June 23 March 22-April 20 Fictitious Nocturnes Permanent Collection of Asian Art Works: 1985-1991 Mark Forth, paintings; portraits of our youth The Peace Museum Michigan at Adams; 312/443-3626 Sandra Jorgensen, oil paintings; formal gar­ with all of its complexities; 1632 N LaSalle; Now-March 30 dens, chateaus, & reflecting pools; opening 312/377-2883 Forced Out: Beacon Street Gallery Mar 22 5-7:30pm; 210 W Superior; 312/ The Agony of the Refugee in Our Time Now-April 20 266-1211 1935 Gallery Photomurals & texts; 430 W Erie; 312/440- Mending the Cirde Now-April 6 1860 Multi-media; examines issues facing Ameri­ Klein Art Works Contemporary Prints from Mexico can Indians; 4520 N Beacon; 312/561 -3500 Now-March 31 April 12-May 14 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Glenn Jampol: Paintings Sara Farrell, paintings Betty Rymer Gallery Catherine Edelman Gallery Abstract architectural forms; 400 N Morgan; 1935 S Halsted; 312/829-0485 Now-March 29 Now-April 20 312/243-0400 Student architectural drawings & models; Silent Dramas 111: The Landscape Paper Press April 12-May 22 Michael Kenna & Marilyn Bridges Marx Gallery Now-March 30 Local Visions: April 26-June 1 May 3-June 15 Better Homes & Goddesses Folk Art from Northeast Kentucky Maria Martinez-Canas, new work May '91 Cast Glass Invitational Lydia Ruyle, collagraphprints, images of women Opening Apr 12 5-7pm; Columbus at Jackson; Gallery Artists: A Selection Opening May 3 5-8pm; 208 W Kinzie; 312/ in ancient cultures; Gallery II 300 W Superior 661-0657 April 13-June 8 Now-March 29 Veiled Meanings 11:59 Columbia College Art Gallery May Weber Museum of Cultural Arts Mary Dritschel, mixed media constructions; Juried exhibition examining the concept of Now-April 12 Now-June 15 opening Apr 13 5:30-7:30pm; 1017 W time; Home Sweet Home; Art, Furniture &The Home; To Market, To Market: Trade Routes & Cultural Jackson; 312/226-6300 April 5-May 3 72 E Eleventh; 312/663-5554 Diffusion; $1 admission; 299 E Ontario; 312/ Group show; mixed media & installation; 787-4477 Portals, Ltd opening Apr 5 6-8pm; 1040 W Huron; 312/ Contemporary Art Workshop Now-April 1 443-7284 March 15-April 9 Museum of Contemporary Art Myths & Visions Art & Music/Music & Art Now-March 24 Lome Beug, sculptures & Martin Boyle, paint­ State of Illinois Gallery Work of 10 Chicago artists; Cuba-USA: The First Generation ings; 230 W Huron; 312/642-1066 March 18-May 17 April 12-May 32 150 works by 48 Cuban-American artists; Gertrude Abercrombie; also Joel Graesser, sculpture & Michael Maszk, March 23-May 13 Foci: Paintings by michael Banicki drawings; 542 W Grant; 312/472-4004 Options 41: Julia Wachtel Opening Mar 22 7-9pm; 100 W Randolph;

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Unlike the Tehran mnicoim and Lebanon hostages, the US soldiers in Many of the Milwaukee fairs occurred the Gulf are not being held against their during the first weekends of the war, will. They are volunteers. Thus the when the mainstream media, through yellow ribbon of today gives uncritical of LoriDon satellite technology and Orwell-inspired support to the agents of war (the 1924 East Kenilworth, Milwaukee, WI 53202 278-0990 commentary, projected live battle soldiers) but not to the action (war) of footage and, most important, the ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THE those agents. Like the essential concept of the horrific realities of war as SERVICE AT YOUR SALON? character of its bow format, the yellow actual experience into the American ribbon is a convoluted symbol blindly IF NOT, WHY NOT TRY psyche. 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