A BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION of the ARTS Volume 2, Issue 4 March 15/May 15, 1988 Editor-In-Chief Debra Brehmer from the Editor
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A BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE ARTS Volume 2, Issue 4 March 15/May 15, 1988 Editor-in-Chief Debra Brehmer From the Editor Associate Editor Calendar Editor I attended a two-day conference at the Center We hope you'll help us assess how close we're for Arts Criticism in St. Paul recently for edi coming to some of these goals by filling out the Business Manager tors of art magazines. It turned out that Art survey you'll find inside this issue. We need to Muscle was the only for-profit art magazine Therese Gantz know who you are, where you're from and why represented, which means we rely on advertis you now have a copy of this magazine in your ing and subscriptions for income, rather than hands. We also want to know what you like and Associate Editor-Music grants. We initially chose this route because we dislike about the magazine and whether you wanted to ensure that the magazine was inte have any ideas for increasing coverage in cer Bobby DuPah grated into the city-at-large. We wanted the tain areas or developing the content, look, etc. magazine to reach a large and diverse audience So please take the time to complete the survey (which it does), not just an art audience. Most and add any comments you want. We'll talk Photo Editor of the other magazines at the conference had about the results in our next issue (May 15). smaller incomes and therefore smaller circula Francis Ford tions of about 2,000. Art Muscle's circulation is In a future issue of Art Muscle, we'll also pub 20,000. The question came up as to whether we lish an index of other cities' art magazines for could continue to reach such a diverse audience anyone interested in obtaining copies. Ad Manager without compromising the intellectual content Sam Woodburn of the magazine. Good question. Our philos On an unrelated note: In case you missed it, our ophy has been that difficult ideas and concepts dance party in February drew about 350 peo can be communicated to a large audience, but it ple, many of whom did manage to figure out Art Direction takes good writing and clear thinking to do it. how to dance to salsa music. No easy feat, but hopefully we succeed more Scott Schanke often than not. Anyway, what I realized from And a final reminder: you too can be a Friend of all of this is that Art Muscle is an experiment. Art Muscle. If you'll notice the masthead, our Design Assistance We are determining whether the commercial number of Friends has more than doubled since market will support something as altruistic as a Don Sefton the last issue (which contained only two friends, local art magazine; whether we can continue to both relatives). Just send a check for $50, and interest many sectors of the population; wheth you'll be a friend and have a 5-year subscrip er we can stimulate intellectual thought and tion to boot. We're putting the Friends' money Typesetting by Ries Graphics discussion and entertain at the same time, and in a special account earmarked to purchase Printing by Citizen Publishing whether we can increase participation in the some badly needed additional computer equip- arts in Wisconsin. ment- Debra Brehmer FRIENDS OF ART MUSCLE Mr, & Mrs. Perry Dinkin, Mr. & Mrs. Jack Recht, Jim Newhouse, Peter Goldberg, Theo Kisch To become a FRIEND OF ART MUS CLE, send a check for $50 which enti tles you to a 5-year subsription. Art Muscle is published bi-monthly by Art Muscle-Milwaukee, Inc., 909 W. National Ave, P.O. Box 93219, Milwau kee, Wl 53203. Third Class postage paid at Milwaukee, Wl 53202 and ad ditional mailing offices. Postmaster: photo by Jim lirozck Send address changes to Art Muscle, P.O. 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Lintlemann Selling Outside the City 22 .fobu Gruemvald Architechture - Premodo 26 ./'ofon Utttro/)/) Photography on the Edge 28 <"yhthia Crigler Reader Survey 33 DEPARTMENTS AGOG 6 Letters/Letter Home 7 Post Facto - Reviews 10 Previews 11 Ear Muscle 12 Beyond Video Clone 14 Linear B 17 Performance Futures 20 Walk This Way 25 Calendar 35 Cover: Fred Stonehouse, 1987. Fred Stonehouse is a Milwaukee painter. ADVERTISE! call (414)672-8485 I \ That's our incomparable Eggs Pampered Eggs and Omelettes, Benedict. Atop two perfectly toasted English specialty pancakes, Panhandled Egg dishes or muffins and thinly sliced ham are delicately fresh, crispy salads. Complement your meal poached eggs crowned with a gloriously rich with fresh squeezed, sweet, cold orange juice. Hollandaise sauce. What more could you possibly It's the kind of sumptuous breakfast fare that want for Le Breakfast, Le Brunch f*3&« Le Peep" is famous for. Not to mention our or Le Lunch? I Pbet 4 Art Muscle EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED ASTORS II BAYSHORE 5900 NORTH PORT WASHINGTON ROAD (414)332-5900 Skin Care & Make-Up Consultation Massage Therapy Tanning European Nail Services Waxing Fashion Accessories Please Call For a Free Consultation A Member of Intercoiffure mflicoim of LOflDOn Full Service Hairdressing Salon 1924 E. Kenilworth Place 278-0990 AGOG A rts Upaf awards smaller The following arts groups received ter Burks, Kate Davy, Pat Fetterley, Dick Blau, department chairman, will arts groups grants grants under the new program: Great- Danni Gendelman, Phil McGoohan be shown in March at the Houston For the first time in its 21 year history, American Children's Theater Co., and Nancy Stephens. Unlike other Fotofest. Cecelia Conduit, associate the United Performing Arts Fund re $13,458; Milwaukee Inner City Arts grant programs, once a group qualifies professor of film, presented her video, cently awarded grant money to 15 Council, $9,176; Milwaukee Chamber it will continue to receive funding on a Not a Jealous Bone at the Museum of smaller arts groups. This represents a Theater, $8,130; Theatre X, $7,293; yearly basis. UPAF raises funding each Modern Art in New York on Feb. 28. major change in the organization's Woodland Pattern, $6,423; Milwau year through corporate foundations, structure and mission. UPAF previous kee Opera Co., $5,826; Bauer Con individual donations and workplace Steichen show ly only awarded money to seven of the temporary Ballet, $5,701; Ko-Thi giving. This year's campaign goal is An artist who started his career in Mil city's largest performing arts organiza Dance Co., $5,454; Clavis Theater, $5.2 million. waukee and went on to become one of tions. $5,317; Acacia Theater, $5,307; Mil the world's greatest photographers is waukee Chamber Music Society, Film department scores being honored in Steichen/109, a ma UPAF initiated the program with $5,291; Theater Tesseract, $5,152; Members of the University of Wiscon jor exhibition at the University of Wis $100,009 seed money, $50,000 of Theater School Ltd., $5,111; and sin-Milwaukee Film Department have consin-Milwaukee Art Museum, Vogel which was awarded from the Milwau Dancecircus Ltd., $4,470. recently garnered some awards. Patri Hall Galleries, 3253 N. Downer Ave., kee Foundation. According to Cam cia Mellencamp, associate professor of from March 27 to May 8. The exhibi paign Director Lisa Froemming, UPAF Three applicants were rejected: Mil art history and the coordinator of the tion includes 118 works, divided into hopes to double the amount this year. waukee Choristers, Milwaukee Music Letters and Science Film Program, was five sections outlining phases of Stei- Ensemble and Next Generation The one of 10 Americans selected to attend chen's career. Any arts group with a yearly budget of ater. These groups did not meet all the the First International Congress of $50,000 or more that has been in exis UPAF requirements. Women in Film in the Soviet Union in New director for tence for three seasons and has an ac March. Rob Danielson, an associate Madison Art Center tive board of directors can apply. For Grant awards are based on the organi professor of film, had a documentary, The Madison Art Center has hired Da application information, contact the zations' total operating budgets, not Opposite Effects selected for the Infer- vid Scott Berreth, 38, as its new direc Milwaukee Artists Foundation at 276- on project requests or other need fac mental 7 exhibition. His was one of 58 tor, replacing Tom Garver who re 9276. Grants will be awarded in the tors. A seven member panel reviews films and videos selected from 575 en signed in 1987. Berreth previously fall of 1988. the proposals. Current panel members tries to be broadcast in 25 countries was director of Miami University's Art are Kent Anderson (Chairman), Wal around the world. Ten photographs by Museum in Oxford, Ohio. G rants Erickson wins fellowship award Fellowship awards kee, a video artist and teacher at Lorrie Moore of Madison, a fiction Jon Erickson, a Milwaukee perfor The 1988 Wisconsin Arts Board Fel UWM; Joyce Paul of Mequon, a paint writer.