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Michele Oka Doner, "Doll, 1968," porcelain, 18 in. x 6V2 in. x 14 in. (tttefiMeui: ui^f. (Jones 22 Haggerty Museum of Art By Bebra Brehmer Marquette University Dolls in Contemporary Art: Metaphors of Personal Identity March 18 through June 16, 1993

Opening Lecture: Curtis Carter, exhibition curator and director of Haggerty Museum of Art, March 18, 6 p.m. Straz Hall, adjacent to the Museum. Opening Reception: from 7 - 9 p.m. following the lecture in the Museum. Performance/Lecture: "The Art of Sandplay: Mirroring the Soul," James Stewart, artist and play therapist, March 19, 7 p.m. in the Museum. 5 All events are free and open to the public. Aft? Hours: Mori-Sat 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Th 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sun noon 5 p.m. 13th and Clyboum tatters 9 Post Facto 70 Caoe>nicao>o Catena/0 33 Cathms 35

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She will be bringing a Arts has taken over the past few years, a group of Wisconsin obtain an enriched theater experi­ major national artists' book exhibit to artists and arts administrators has joined together to found the gallery next fall. t ence for eight plays remaining in the Arts Wisconsin, a new state-wide arts advocacy group. "We're '92-93 season through Artreach Marietta Hedges is the new marketing in an economic time that is not good for the arts,'' says Milwaukee's new Audio Description director of the Skylight Opera Theatre. Milwaukee arts consultant Gretchen Thomson, a founding The former New Yorker has a back­ member of the group. "Funding is hard to find, and there's Service. Trained describers, located ground in both commercial advertising offstage, offer concise descriptions of and not-for-profit arts administration. intense competition for what few dollars are available. There s sets, lighting, costumes and move­ is a vacuum of advocacy efforts on the state level.'' The The Milwaukee Foundation has signed mission of the group, she says, is to advocate for policies that ment via small earphones. All de­ on Karen Spahn, late of the late Mil­ scriptions are slipped in between dia­ waukee Artists Foundation, as a con­ strengthen the NEA, and for legislation and other forms of logue or song. Most theaters offer­ sultant to work with funders, arts groups support for the Wisconsin Arts Board, among other organi­ and individual artists on arts planning, zations. A more specific set of goals will be determined by the ing the service will also offer a "sen­ coordination and information distribu­ sory seminar" prior to the show in tion. She will also assists the Milwaukee group's board of directors, which had not been established at Foundation in staffing CAMPAC, the which patrons may walk on stage to press time. The group invites participation by artists, arts Milwaukee County Arts Advisory Council. touch costumes, props and obtain a administrators and others. For information, write: Arts Wis­ feel for the set. Sarah Ann Ford, a program officer with consin, P.O. Box 5156., Madison, WI 53705. the Milwaukee Foundation, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Wisconsin is one of fewer than 15 Arts Midwest. states in the U.S. to provide a description service, and is funded D. Scott Glasser, Minneapolis resident and former associate director of the St. with grants from the Milwaukee Arts Paul Actors Theater, will replace Joseph TICKET SALES SKYROCKET Board and Wisconsin Bell. For a list Hanreddy as artistic director of the Madi­ Just when all was beginning to seem bleak for the arts—at son Repertory Theatre. of audio described performances, least so far as funding is concerned—along come two organi­ contact Artreach Milwaukee, The Civic Music Association has eight zations who report record or near-record growth. The Mil­ 271-4704 or 271-5185 (TDD for new board members: Joyce Altman, waukee Ballet announces that its subscription sales are up by hearing-impaired). Executive Director of United Cerebral Palsy of Southeastern Wisconsin; 39 percent this season. At 5,141, they're more than 3,000 Stephen Basson, principal bassoonist higher than last year. And American Inside Theatre reports with the Milwaukee SymphonyOrches- that it has already exceeded its year-end ticket revenue goal of tra; Betty W. Boyce, member of the Wauwatosa MacFadyen Music Club; $150,000. Theatre representatives are giving credit to both NEW GRAPHIC Marlene Cook, organist and children's the AIT production of It's A Wonderful Life and to the ARTS PROGRAM choir directorat Abiding Savior Lutheran population boomlet in the western suburbs, where ATT is Church, Nora B. Courier, piano teacher In a move that could provide in­ affiliated with North Shore Academy of located. creased competition for graphic arts Suzuki Piano; Thallis Hoyt Drake, retir­ departments at Milwaukee Institute ing executive administrator of Civic Music Association; Fred R. Snyder, of Art and Design and UWM, Cardi­ former bassoonist with the Milwaukee nal Stritch College has imported Symphony Orchestra; and George ER. young California graphic arts whiz Wells, Special projects consultant for THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING the associated Bank of Milwaukee. Bill Carman, 35, to head its new, Thanks to gifts by Milwaukee art collectors Dick and Sue beefed-up Graphic Arts Program. Joan H. Squires is acting executive di­ Pieper, and to the generosity of Chicago master printer Jack Carman, who attended the Mormon rector of the Milwaukee Symphony Or­ Lemon, the Milwaukee Art Museum has established the chestra. She replaces Gary Good, who Brigham Young University, has plans to start a consulting firm for arts Landfall Press Archive. worked for Lucas Films, The Repub­ groups. Squires was formerly the Gen­ lican Party, Atari and Ford Aero­ eral Manager of the Symphony. Edwin The acquisition consists not only of prints made by Lemon's P. Wiley is the new president of the space. He plans to use top students MSO, and Edward Chichurski and John Landfall Press in collaboration with such artists as Claes to start a design group, which will McCullough are new board members. Oldenburg, AlfredLeslie, Philip Pearlstein and William Wiley, provide design services to both cam­ but also of the preliminary drawings, collages, working prints, Obie Yadgar, writer and former radio pus and off-campus clients. blocks, plates and lithography stones used in their personality for WFMR, is the new assis­ tant manager for media relations at production. Stritch has offered a B A. in graphic Marquette University.

arts, says Carman, but until the es­ Lynn Lucius, former General Manager "Because it has lots of preparatory materials, it's a real boon tablishment of this program, relied of the Artist Series at the Pabst, has for teaching how a print comes into being," says Prints and on part-time teachers and lacked an been named its Executive Director. Carol Drawings Curator Sue Taylor. In addition, says Taylor, Lynn Schowalter has been promoted to overall professional focus. "We really executive assistant. Lemon has agreed to provide the museum with an example of want to establish an identity, so that every print the press produces in the future, for as long as he people know Stritch is the place to go B.H. Diekhoff, conductor of the Mil­ continues to be associated with Landfall. "It's a gift that will waukee Choristers since 1983, has re­ for top-quality graphic design signed. He will be moving with his wife continue to grow," she says. The collection will be unveiled graduates." to the southeastern U.S. to the public sometime in 1995. o o R IT U N t "I "i E

ART Two-dimensional works with avia­ Artists over age 60 sought for Expo­ Reunion art fair is being planned by Arts Midwest invites midwest organi­ jQue penal the Frcewheelers, the Inner City Artists' and tion as theme (no photographs) wanted for sure 93, a touring exhibit featuring work of zations to apply for Meet the Composer grants Craftsmen's Association. Former members of 17th EAA Sport Aviation Art Competition, Milwaukee, Waukesha and Ozaukee County to present public events involving composers Here's the way it looks from Milwaukee on the first day of Sefior the group, please contact the branch manager Oshkosh, June 1993-May 1994. Fee: $10/ senior artists. For entry forms: Kristine John­ along with performances of their work. Com­ Clinton's presidency The snow is melting, the sky Is leaking, at King library, 414-286-3098. entry. For rules: Joan Mueller, EAA Aviation son, 414-271-4707 or 271-5185 (TDD for posers working in all styles are eligible. Dead­ and Frasquita's slogging about in a gray stew of snow, cigarette Foundation, EAA Aviation Center, Oshkosh, hearing impaired). line: April 2 for events occurring between July filters and naff-decomposed Burger King wrappers, trying to and December 1993. For information: Bobbi WI 54903-3065. Two-dimensional works sought on keep her chin high and her thoughts on a spiritual plane. This Wisconsin recipients of 1992 Him in the Cities grants are: Original artwork and handcrafted ongoing basis for exhibit at Alphonse Gallery, Morris or Jeanne Lakso, 612-341-0755. is difficult, especially when so many earthly sorts persist in filling Al Cedicks, LaCrosse, SI 0,000 to support a documentary Works in all media exploring use of* items sought for Dark Star Books and Music, St. Joseph Convent. For information: Sister her ears with tales of others' pursuits and peregrinations. So, about mining on tribal lands in northern Wisconsin; Lora art in healing wanted for Healing Through 800 E. Burleigh St. Milwaukee, WI. Call for Luanda Hubing, 354 W. Ohio St., Milwau­ Arts Midwest/Lila Wallace-Reader's though Dios knows that she'd rather be channeling, she'll press Jost, Madison, $10,000 to support a collaborative series Arts 1993 Grants. Awards: $2000 and mini appointment 414-562-7827, or stop by any kee, WI. 414-672-3418. Digest National Jazz Network Satellite Tour­ the pause button for just a moment and fill you in... on issues affecting local communities; Karla Berry, grants. For information: Healing Through day between noon and 8 pan. ing Fund invites midwest presenters to apply At press time, a group of local artists and architects Oshkosh, $2,500to suppor t videotape exploring myths Arts, P.O. Box 411, Wayiand, MA, 01778. for funds for satellite presentations of any jazz were working to build huts for the homeless in an undisclosed relating to Calamity Jane and how those myths relate to Artwork exploring emotions and aes­ LITERATURE artists currently booked by any of the 16 location. The project is modeled after the Mad Housers, a group women's lives today. An Appalachian Summer, a multi- thetics of color blue are sought for juried Nobody Quarterly seeks prose, poetry National Jazz Network members. Deadline: of artists in Atlanta whose economical little huts created quite arts festival sponsored by Appalachian State exhibition, True Blues, October 17-Novcm- and b/w artwork for publication. Send sub­ ongoing. For information: Arts Midwcst,612- a furor in municipal government there a few years ago. Watch Milwaukee performance artist Debbie Davis is among University, seeks entries for Seventh Rosen ber 14. Submit up to 9 entries/labeled slides, missions to: Nobody Quarterly, 2843 N. 47th 341-0755. for the grand announcement when several homeless people St., Milwaukee, WI 53210. ^he first group of midwest artists to receive an Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibi­ resume and SASE to: Carol Harding, Uihlein- suddenly have their very own pads... Leefer's Gallery is ru­ Intermedia Arts/McKnight Fellowship from tion. Fee: $15/3 slides. Cash awards. Dead­ Peters Gallery, 1840 N. Prospect Ave., Mil­ mored to be constructing a sculpture garden next to its indoor Intermedia Arts of Minnesota. line: March 15. For prospectus: Terry Suhre, waukee, WI 53202. GENERIC gallery on south 5th St... Here's an idea that Frasquita finds muy Catherine Smith Gallery, Farthing Audito­ THEATER Randolph Street Gallery seeks indi­ cool: St. Louis, one of a number of American cities of middling Theater critics to write about Wis­ vidual artists or small collaborative groups for size to get light rail in the past few years, is sponsoring a [ Three Wisconsin organizations are recipients of Arts rium, Appalachian State University, Boone, Fair on the Lake (formerly Monu­ Midwest Meet the Composer grants, which sup­ NC, 28608.704-262-3017. ment Square Art Fair) seeks artists for 30th consin regional theater sought for This Week Regional Artists' Projects 1993 Grant Pro­ competition for artists to design work for light rail stops... Speaking of transportation, some partygoers are still going port personal appearances by composers. The annual fair, June 12 and 13 at Racine's Festival On Stage, international newsletter of regional gram. RAP provides project funding for art­ 'round in circles from Demetra Copoulos and Tom Littmann's Es\ organizations and composers are: Present Music, Arts Midwest announces the avail­ Site on the Lakefront. For prospectus: Fair on theater. Write: David Lefkowitz, This Week on works which challenge traditional art disci­ Stage, P.O. Box 62, Hewlett, NY, 11557. fab farewell to '92—they installed a roller rink right in the studio Michael Torke; Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Darol ability of matching funds forexhibitions , com­ the Lake, P.O. Box 85656, Racine, Wiscon­ plines and explore new forms of art and cul­ ture. Eligible: artists working in any creative and guests skated in the new year... Painter and animal-rights i Anger and David Balakrishnon; Carroll College, missions, or purchases of work and for resi­ sin, 53406. Deadline: February 17. discipline and living in Illinois, Michigan, activist Alicia Czechowski, who moved from Milwaukee to New &' Daniel Bukvich. dences, lectures or other public presentations. Playwrights invited to join award- Missouri or Ohio. Deadline: March 1 for York several years ago, is traveling in rarif ied circles these days; Artworks Fund grants of up to $1,000 arc New Chicago gallery seeks artists and winning, produced and published Milwaukee projects occurring September 1-August 31, her work has been appearing in the New Yorker... Performance |\ At its December meeting, Faye McBeath Foun­ available to nonprofit organizations featuring craftspeople in all media; should be able to do playwrights for monthly critique meetings. 1994. For application: Kapra Fleming, 312- artist and ex-Milwaukeean of long standing jon Erickson's dation trustees approved 14 grants, among Arts Midwest's 1992/3 Visual Artists Fund commission work. Send slides, resume, pric­ We welcome the talented/despairing. 414- 962-9990. 666-7737. book—on the body, objects and non-objects and other fabu­ |\ them: $30,000 to the UWM School of Archi­ recipients in upcoming programming. For ing information, SASE to: Alan Smith, Union lously heady ideas-Ms being published by the University of ll tecture and Urban Planning Institute on Ag- application forms: Arts Midwest, 528 Street Gallery, 527 N. Union Street, Chicago Michigan press. Friends are advising him: "Make sure you get M ing and the Environment to support a pro- Hennepin Ave. Suite 310, Minneapolis, MN II60610. First Stage Milwaukee seeks actors Performing Arts Touring and Dance and teachers with theater background for on Tour funds offer Midwestern non-profit a contract, John."... The media bankruptcy merry-go-round M gram to assist caregivers in developing im- 55403. 612-341-9755 or 612-341-0901 just keeps spinning: Gareth Stevens is out of ft now (he W\ proved environmentsforolderpersons. Also (TDD for hearing impaired). Handcrafted work sought for Uni­ Theater in Education Program in develop­ organizations fee-support grants to bring per­ ment at Milwaukee schools. Participants must forming artists from the Midwest or new celebrated by printing up T-shirts for his staff that proclaimed 1|| approved were special year-end gifts in- versity of Wisconsin-Parkside Summer Arts his solvency) and Wisconsin Pop's in the thick of it, leaving artists M eluding: $5,000 to Artreach Milwaukee to Works in all media, no dimension and Crafts Festival June 19. Entry fee: $45. be available April 12-May 14. Rehearsal times forms of art to the Midwest. For information will be scheduled around participants' avail­ on grants for 1993-94 season, contact: Arts and writers of all stripes crying over their unpaid invoices. Some M sup port a senior arts program; and $5,000 over 2" excluding frame or base, sought for For application form, call 414-595-2457 or connected to the short-lived magazine venture are now calling ability; two weeks of performance occur dur­ Midwest, 528 Hennepin, Suite 310, Minne­ M to Walker's Point Center for the Arts to national juried exhibit. Deadline: April 2. For write: Summer Arts and Crafts Festival, UW- it Wisconsin Poop. Oh, does Frasquita have to explain every­ ing weekday school hours. Multi-cultural ap­ apolis MN 55403. 612-341-0755. Dance ||\ support the After School Arts Program. prospectus, send SASE to 2x2x2, Gallery Ten, Parkside Music Department, Box 2000, thing? For pooped-out... Milwaukeeans are making their marks plicants encouraged. Call 414-273-7121 ext. deadline: February 1. Performing arts dead­ 514 E. State St., Rockford, IL 61104. 815- Kenosha, WI 53141-2000. in the movie biz: John Kishline and Flora Coker recently ap­ 348 for appointment. Deadline: March 1. line: March 12. ||\ Fifty-three artists in Wisconsin will re- 964-1743. peared together in a grade B horror movie, and Sigmund || ceive grants of $1,000 to $5,000 from WisconsinAcademyArt Gallery seeks Snopek is working on soundtrack for a science fiction movie. |A the Wisconsin Arts Board as part of its Representations and interpretations Wisconsin art in all media for exhibition in Waukesha Civic Theatre will hold Applications due February 15 for Was that a part of it on his answering machine? He said it was f§\ Individual Artist Program. Milwaukee- of botanical world sought for national juried 1993-4. Send 8-12 slides, resume and SASE auditions for The Foreigner February 1 and 2 Wisconsin Arts Board Performing Arts Net­ the marines landing but Frasquita's sources say it sounded i\ area artists receiving grants are: writ- exhibit. All media. 3 slides/$15. Deadline: to Art Coordinator, WisconsinAcademy, 1922 at 7 pjn. at the theater 506 N. Washington work-Wisconsin, which supports fee costs to more like a UFO. In any case, the Sig also actually played a priest ||iers Shirley Anders, Ann Hostetier, April 16. For prospectus, send SASE to University Ave., Madison, WI 53705. Dead­ St., Waukesha. Production dates are March presenters for series of four or more perfor­ in the show. He says it felt familiar because "I was in a seminary M DeWitt Clinton, Sheila Roberts, Botanies, Gallery Ten, 514 E. State St. Rock­ line: March 20. For information, call 608- 12-28. For information call 414-547-4911. mances engaging professional touring artists, once for three weeks, you know."... Custard and chic ham­ |H Marilyn Taylor, John Coulet and Sara ford, IL 61104. 815-964-1743. 263-1692. and Folk Arts Apprenticeships, which provide burger magnate Kad Kopp is considering a new bar or eatery or Rath; visual artists Ann Gale, Fred Village Playhouse ofWauwatosa seeks support for master artists to pass skills of some such thing somewhere in SoHo... The new painting by HI Stonehouse, Christopher Davis- The FORUM Gallery seeks work in Artwork sought for juried competi­ actors for participation in Wisconsin Ameri­ traditional art forms to apprentices. For infor­ Conrad Schmitt Studios on the vaulted ceiling at the Marc mation contact WAB: 608-266-0190. ||A Benavides, Vicki Grafentin, Wyatt all media that addresses current environmen­ tion for holiday greeting card series, An can Association of Community Theatres Fes­ Plaza'srestored lobby is Rococco with a '90s twist: the cheru­ ||\ Yoshimi Osato and Katherine King; tal issues for Artists Consider the Environment Afrocentric View of the Winter Holiday Season. tival in Eau Claire March 5, 6, 7. Play is bim are multicultural... And while she's on the subject of M musical composers Yehuda exhibit. Send SASE, up to 10 slides, resume Proceeds from sale of cards go to Thurgood Tennesee by Romulus Linney. Roles open to Wisconsin Arts Board grant applica­ murals, Frasquita would like to mention a new development in M Yannay and Michael Nicolelia; and support material to: Artists Consider the Marshall Scholarship Fund. Awards: $500. VPW members only. For information, call tion booklets are now available at 10 Regional the career of one of the graffiti artists whose H media artists Rob Yeo, Cathy Environment, The FORUM Gallery at Fee: $10/12 slides. For entry and informa­ Tom Suehlke, 414-744-5212. Resource Centers across Wisconsin, in the work was featured in a recent Cook and Dennis Darmek. Jamestown Community College, P.O. Box tion: The Kydd Group, P.O. Box 580354, municipalities of Amery, Appleton, Ashland, Walker's Point Center for the >few 20, Jamestown, NY 14702-0020. Deadline: Minneapolis, MN. 55458.612-835-7838. Green Bay, La Crosse, Menomonie, Milwau­ The Elvehjem Museum of Art April 15. DANCE kee, PJatrevillc, Racine and Stevens Point. The Arts. Apparently, he took was among eight Wisconsin Artists sought for monthly exhibits. Dancers with training in ballet plus Milwaukee center is located at the Milwaukee it upon himself, organizations to receive ma­ Send slide, resume, SASE to: Beverly Art jazz and/or modern dance experience sought Arts Board in the Department of City Devel­ unbidden, to deco* opment, 809 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, WI. rate the side of a jor grants from the Wiscon­ All media sought for Pets: Artists and Ccnter,2153W. llthSt.,Chicago,IL6G620. for Amadeus Dance Company. For appoint­ private home on sin Humanities Committee anAmericanObsessioncyMbk June 13through ment, call Amadeus Dance Studio at 414- For information on other centers contact: Fourth St The guy from funds provided by the September 15. Send up to 10 slides, resume Artists sought for one- to four-week 277-0772 or 543-6118. WAB: 608-266-0190 or 267-9629 (TDD). from the city National Endowment for and SASE to: Charles A. Wustum Museum of residencies. Deadline: ongoing. Send SASE graf itti abatement the Humanities. The mu­ Fine Arts, 2519 Northwestern Ave., Racine, for information to Mr. Norman, A.C.T.S. Dancers sought for Danceworks In­ Performing artists living in Wiscon­ team hired to clean seum received $15,387 for WI 53404, 414-636-9177. Deadline: Institute, P.O. Box 10153, Kansas City, MO dependent and Emerging Choreographers sin and working in the areas of theater, classi­ up the mess/art was || display and educational March 15. 64111.816-753-0208. program, May 7 and 8. Auditions 1-3 p.m. cal music, dance and folk music are invited to N interpretation of African February 21 at Danceworks studio, 727 N. audition for Great Lakes Performing Artist none other than the Milwaukee St., Milwaukee, WI. For informa­ Association. For information: Dave Claytor, artist's brother. These Reflections, an exhibition Theatre X seeks artists to design hats Residences for painters, sculptors, tion call 414-276-3191. Great Lakes PerformingArtist Associates, 505 hombres could keep of more than 450 arti­ for March 13th gala benefit Hats Off to The­ writers, painters. Vermont Studio Centcr,P.O. E. Huron, Suite 302, Ann Arbor, MI 48104- each other in business for facts from museums atre X. Grand prize is two round-trip tickets Box613, Johnson, VT 05656.802-635-2727. around the world. 1567. 313-485-1331. years... Artist Francisco on Midwest Express Airlines to any city in Mora is back in town af­ U.S. Hats accepted in two categories: general Residencies 3-6 months with studio, Music Arts Midwest seeks nominations for Friends of Boemer Botanical Gar­ ter a year or so in Santa The Milwaukee Sym­ andstudent(ages 16-22). Call414-278-0555 living space and stipend. Send SASE for infor­ Fe... And with that, phony has received a for information. mation: Alternative Worksite, Bemis Founda­ fourth annual Jazz Master Awards, which dens seeks performers to represent Milwaukee and all surrounding communities in its 1993 Frasquita says hasta $100,000 three-year tion, 614 S. 11th St., Omaha, NE 68102. recognize exceptional Midwestern artists, edu­ Rose Festival June 12-20. Talented amateurs luego, with the re­ grant from the GE Regional artists in all media sought 402-341-7130. cators and contributors to jazz. Cash prizes welcome. For information: John Munger, minder that one of Ex- Foundation to sup­ for 1993-4 exhibition season at UW-Madison awarded. For information: Arts Midwest, Jazz 7304 Edgemont Ave., Greendale, WI 53219. President George port the MSO's Memorial Union Galleries. Submit 6-20 slides, Wausau Festival of Arts seeks artists Master Awards, 528 Hennepin Avenue, Suite 310, Minneapolis MN 55403. (612) 341- 414-421-1724. 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8 Art Muscle tivity. Her lavish praise of Gruenwald's personal work made me wonder if her Indict C^T)tisia SocieCV LETTERS role was that of art critic, cheerleader presents I must say that I 'm most impressed with for Gruenwald or unbiased reporter the fact that Art Muscle obviously does doing a straightforward Studio Visit. ULHAS BAPAT a little looking for art news in the community. It seems that too many Troy Hartman On Santoor media outlets just wait for their big Milwaukee With Nishikant Barodekar on Tabla advertisers to send them press releases. I'd also like to express my appreciation Ed. note: Mr. Hartman would like the for the fact that you don't treat commu­ readers of Art Muscle to know that he is nity theatre as a non-entity. Small anot an art major.3' budgets and non-paid staff do not equate with poor productions. It is good to find something about Bob Kafka poetry in your pages as with Koethe in Region ILL Representative the recent issue. I am wondering why America Association ofCommunity The­ Bruce Renner calls the essay "A Natural atre America Poet." Koethe is a brilliant poet but definitely not as Renner would find him. Actually, Renner never dis­ To quote Jamie Daniels: "Artists—a cusses anything American in the essay. group known for its high ratio of unco­ Koethe's style is not American and operative behavior..." ("Technique and Renner's drivel is not. Again, it is excit­ Vision," October/November 1992.) ing to read about Milwaukee poets; I am just cranky now at sunrise as my Who says, Ms. Daniels? Do you have coffee got cold too fast and I'm out of data to support your statement? cigarettes. Keep up the good work, but get real definitions of American poetry 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, MARCH 13,1993 And regarding John Gruenwald's quote: in print, please. Alphonsa Hall, Alverno College "Artists are self-involved jerks." That 3401 South 39th Street seems strangely out of sync with "keep­ Martin Jack Rosenblum ing his [Gruenwald's] ego in check." Milwaukee, WI 53215 After all as an artist, is Gruenwald indi­ cating he is a self-involved jerk? When the Milwaukee Artists Founda­ tion announced its awards, I wondered TICKETS Recently I had the pleasure of inter­ who poet John Koethe could be. Along General $12 viewing the gracious Gruenwald for an came Art Muscle to the rescue with a Members $10 art class assignment and found him most timely feature. ("The Philosopher anything but a "self-involved jerk." Poet," December 1992/January 1993). Students & Sr. Citizens $6 Good essay, good interview, good is­ Generally, Ms. Daniel wrote an objec­ sue. I look forward as well to seeing FOR Mt)RE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: (414) 521-4761 tive piece, but it fell into some danger­ more on literary artists. ous traps when she wallowed in subjec­ Margaret Rozga

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn, courtesy Milwaukee Art Museum related to the clays, sands and soils in the One can't help but admire all the work. In mountains of his native land. addition to the intriguing content, the ANDY WARHOL (1965,1969) define Pop Art, which cele­ pieces are technically satisfying. Both Works from the Permanent Collection brated and sometimes critiqued the In his latest work, Roldan balances the artists use color to convey a sense of January 22-April 25 democratic potential of mass production. rich, tactile presence of scraped and lay­ place. In Angell's work, the color seems Milwaukee Art Museum Campbell's Soup Can on Shopping Bag ered paint with an understated sense of more muted, although this is often de­ (1964) demonstrates Warhol's interest in order. The pictures look like aerial views ceiving. In Chosen, a figure stands on a If Warhol was indeed God, as the hyper­ creating objects at once usable and dis­ of strange unknown landscapes—almost frozen lake—the bluish hues of the dis­ bolic headline in the Village Voice as­ posable. Ironically, the cachet bestowed like maps. There is no sense of depth or tant shoreline recognizable to anyone serted the week he died, the religion on him by dealers, critics and curators illusion of space. Round, organic shapes who has spent time on a small lake in established by his disciples is not univer­ insured that the bags would neither be in umbers, ochres, rusty reds, creamy winter. The figure seems to be surrounded sally embraced. In his dramatization of used nor disposed of, but treated with the UJIS Roldan, from Pasquine series, 1992 whites and charcoal grays all seem to by a halo that glows a luminescent green/ the Doors, director Oliver Stone portrayed reverence once reserved for Flemish oils. float on the surface. The colors are even yellow. Often Angell's figures seem John Lennon, a date tor George from John?l Warhol's Factory as a den of slithering and flat. Nothing seems to overlap. Yet ephemeral—as if they are about to fade sycophants presided over by Andy the At his best, Warhol applied techniques of experiences. Consequently, Polka Hap- women holding a tray of sausages) to the way the paint is applied lends the back into the mist of the landscapes they Great and Terrible. Critic Robert Hughes mass production to images in ways that piness is unsure of what it wants to be. It's ecstatic and heart-rending (the portraits colors a richness and depth that suggests inhabit. MY CHILDREN! MY Mr. M., so passionate about teaching, is (.Shock of the Neul) mused on the vacuum focused attention both on significant is­ too anecdotal—"...With wonderful old taken in 1973, in Erie, Pennsylvania are there actually is something beneath them. preparing young men for a world where that seems to yawn at the core of his sues and the mass media's impact on boogie-woogie on the machine and all of nearly sublime). Second, the interviews The paint is built up, layer upon layer, in Angell and Carlsen each use the effect of AFRICA! no amount of education will help them. work. Had Hitler won World War II, them. Although the exhibition lacks the us sipping scotch on the rocks, we talked with polka people are amazing. The book a way that allows the under-painting to light to verify the stories they tell. Yet they Athol Fugard Thami realizes the uselessness of his Hughes speculated, Warhol would gladly keenest example of Warhol as social critic, about what the influence of Dixieland would function superbly as a Studs Terkel- sometimes slip through and become paint in strikingly different ways that January 8-24,1993 academic success and cannot see (as Mr. have taken portrait commissions in the Birmingham Race Riot (1964), it does and swing had been on Polish-American styie oral history: "I like music. What is textured with marks and brush strokes. sacred moment of time that marks the Milwaukee Chamber Theater M. tries to demonstrate) what powerful 1960s and '70s from second generation include the serigraph Jackie (1965), a music..."—to function as serious social goodl like it.. .TV is a disease. You under­ The sensual qualities of the paint, both its collision of light and dark. In Distraction, weapons words, rather than stones and Nazi leaders. Truman Capote dismissed media-induced confluence of personal science. It's too academic to be a popular stand TV is a disease? Violence, that's all color and how it is applied, become as Angell uses rich oranges and golds to Though the message of his plays has lost, protests, can be. Caught between them, Warhol as a sphinx without a riddle. suffering and public spectacle, and Mao guide to the polka belt It's too regionally there is. Nothing beneficial. What's in a important as anything the pictures might reflect the light of the sun on a lake. The happily, its urgency about the grip of Isabel struggles in vain to identify with Tie-Tung (1972), which parodies the focused to be a general history (the au­ polka? Happiness. When you go out of represent image becomes a mystical recording of apartheid on South Africa, playwright their conflict, and to define herself amidst The riddle of whether Warhol was a bril­ repetition of that image across countless thors note that they ignore the Mexican/ here, you say: Oh boy, did I have a ball! light, air and water. Carlsen uses the sky Athol Fugard's days of controversy cer­ all the turbulence. liant artist, a shrewd entrepreneur or an billboards and buildings in China. Re­ Navajo polka tradition in the southwest) Did I enjoy myself! When you watch TV But exactly what these pictures represent to dramatize his narratives, ft becomes a tainly haven't ended. Milwaukee may not interesting collaboration of vision and touching Mao's face in green, blue, red and it's too personal to function as a you say, what a miserable show I seems to be quite elusive. As the only hint witness to events taking place. In First be as politically and racially volatile as Having had to contend with a first act venality will not be unraveled by the and white, Warhol repackaged a revolu­ regional history. watched!" As though there could be a Roldan gives us, the title would seem to Night, we recognize the woods, the dusk, Cape Town, but the production of his My swollen with exposition andspeechmak- Milwaukee Art Museum's current retro­ tionary icon as an object for consump­ better way to describe polka happiness. offer some sort of direction. The word the fire—but it is the sky that sets the tone Children/ My Africa! at the Milwaukee ing, director D. Scott Glasser has fash­ spective. With many of its pieces pur­ tion. Warhol 'sElectric CbairC.n.d.'), repre­ The writing is often tough to stomach: pasquine feels appropriate in a poetic or of the unfolding drama. These paintings Chamber Theater managed, even before ioned a taut, intense Act IX In spite of chased serendipitously at a time when a sented as a stark object in funereal black, academics reaching for hip, overcom- Nathan Guequierre intuitive sense, although the word lacks a are not at all photo-realism, but still a sort opening night, to stir the ire of an advo­ unsettling canned sound effects and some Warhol print could be had for a few is endowed with the ability to testify pensating for polka's undeserved kitschy true English equivalent. In a similar way, of "snapshot*—hanging somewhere cacy group of dubious intention called garbled lines, the actors soar here. Carol hundred dollars, Works from the Perma­ against capital punishment. and lowbrow reputation. Ms. Keil tends though these abstract paintings seem to among those dreamy nostalgic images the "Euro-American Alliance." Apparently Dunne's Isabel was luminous, her vitality nent Collection lacks the depth to serve toward a "soft" sociology that is breathy suggest specific ideas or meanings, they we all carry with us; memories that be­ no fan of racial harmony, its chairman, in and "I-can-change-the-world" stubborn­ as a definitive composite of his legacy. In Warhol left a legacy that continues to and bathetic At the 1976 polka conven­ LUIS ROLDAN are more like words of unknown lan­ come blurred, where "what really hap­ a letter to MCT, called the play "a silly ness fully illuminated. Though poorly its breadth, beginning in the early '50s provoke questions and new trains of tion, she writes "...the special signs of Pasquines guage—meaningful in their own right, pened" is processed through our mental attempt to preach to an anti-white choir." sketched on the page, Allan Louis read and concluding near the end of his life, endeavor. Works from the Permanent transformation are all around: myth and November 20-December 31,1992 but difficult to translate. filters. And if he had attended the Chamber Thami's transformation from clever, self- the exhibition does afford a Cliff Notes Collection may at least stimulate viewers lore making; ritual space and ritual time Michael H. Lord Gallery Theater's impressive production, the care effacing student to passionate freedom- and conviction with which the cast summary of one of the century's most to examine those questions more deeply. defined as distinct from utilitarian space Tim Evans But wait, these aren't just dream images, fighter with sensitivity and fire. And Bill Though Luis Roldan will be the subject of brought the story to life probably would publicized artists. and time, ritual garb and gestures..." there are stories being told here. In the Jackson, himself a teacher, simply but have rankled him even more. Dave Luhrssen Yipes. two major museum exhibitions in his painting Full Circle, we see a row boat: powerfully conveyed the eloquence and Lacking in examples from Warhol's semi­ homeland of Colombia this year, he has Has it gone full circle? Is it going in circles? passion of a man consumed by his love of only recently gained attention in his pres­ THE SOLITARY nal pre-Pop Art years as a commercial Mr. Keil constantly approaches academic The solitary boat and boater are images For Fugard's fervent political heart beats knowledge and a turmoil he cannot ent home, Milwaukee. Roldan moved here artist, the exhibition's sole artifact from POLKA HAPPINESS overindulgence. The result, especially EXPERIENCE used by both artists in at least half a dozen strongly under each moment of My Chil- understand. Our histrionic friend from the early period, Wwas a wren (1953), is when combined with his "folksy" style— in 1982, but usually exhibited his work paintings. In Empty Heart, Carlsen paints dren! My Africd s eloquentyet needlessly the "Euro-American Alliance" likewise Charles Keil, Angeliki V. Keil & Dick Blau Paintings by Brett Angell & Barry Carlsen not representative of the shoe advertise­ that "sipping scotch" business—is oddly elsewhere. With shows in Colombia, New a knife in a picnic table, an X carved in a lengthy script; as a result, character de­ expressed his confusion over the tumul­ Temple University Press, 1992 January 10-February 17,1993 ments and magazine layouts by which he disingenuous. Like much thought that York, Chicago and Madison, he steadily tree and the small boat out on the lake in velopment suffers under the weight of his tuous questions Fugard's play raises: Hardcover, 221 pages The Bradley Galleries earned his living after moving to New doesnt benefit from historical distance, gained international exposure while the distance. The reading erf these narra­ very passionate pen. The most clearly "Your attempt at profundity is a joke. remaining almost unnoticed on the local History is made on battlefields, not in York (1949) and gained his initial notori­ his analyses of the music or polka event Although this exhibit contains a few larger tives is where the fun begins. defined character is Isabel, a charming ety. Examples of such commissions could Anyone who's polka'd knows what polka become more important than their sub­ scene. Then in 1989, Roldan received a and energetic white high school student dens of ideological iniquity." What he happiness is, knows that it's real. But, as pieces, most are intimate oils and water- doesn't realize is that the battles spill over help explain the leaptoBr»7/oBcar(1964), jects, the criticism more important than Milwaukee County Artist's Fellowship, There are those forms, those objects that She becomes fascinated, and subse­ they say, you have to be there. Buffalo colors under 12" x 12." These paintings into our daily lives, even our entertain­ a disposable product recontextual ized as the art. Which is too bad, because some and in 1990 he won a Visual Artists New have survived from the beginning of "us." quently involved through an English lit­ academics Charles and Angeliki Keil, are small, jewel-like images that resonate ment, and that history is preserved by sculpture. The Brillo design appropri­ of it is fascinating, particularly Mr. Keil's Work Award from the Wisconsin Arts When we see them—the concentric circle, erature comp>etition, with the world of authors of Polka Happiness, a new book with repeating forms and objects—a boat guardians like Fugard and vibrant story­ ated by Warhol was created by abstract thoughts on Frankie Yankovic's role in Board. Just recently, he had his first solo the spiral, the line in the landscape—we the black township that has, until now, with photographs by UWM film profes­ on a lake, a campfire, a northern cottage, tellers like the ensemble of My Children! expressionist painter James Harvey, who polka's evolution as a parallel to the show in the U.S. here at the Michael H. feel a spark of connection. I'm sp>eaking rested only on the fringes of her comfort­ sor Dick Blau, were there, but that was a a woods, a set of oars, a red truck. Most My Africa! felt somewhat prostituted by the foray immigrant experience in America. Dis­ Lord Gallery. of connections we have to the land, to life able small-town life. long time ago. Unfortunately, they forgot depict a solitary man in nature, though into commercial art. At loggerheads with cussing dialectic somehow does polka cycles, to one another. The work of Angell what it was like. Carlsen portrays him in industrial set­ Megan Powell Abstract Expressionism and its cult of itself a small disservice, and certainly does Though he now lives in Milwaukee, tings, or straddling the abyss between the and Carlsen is full of these forms and they Her partner in the competition is Thami, macho individualism, Warhol made that nothing to capture the excitement of the Roldan's paintings reflect his Colombian natural and industrial landscape. Angell are used to offer metaphors for nature a warm, intelligent student who, despite Beginning with polka's history and evo­ artist and his values the butt of a subtle event sensibilities. This might seem almost too also paints the figure in an interior space. (our place in the world); for memory (that his seemingly bright future, heeds the call lution in America, the book then explores FLUXUS: A CONCEP­ joke while extolling the transient beauty obvious from the foreign-sounding title I find the "solitary man in nature" paint­ which we carry forward with us, that of rebellion and leads a boycott of his discernable in the anonymous signs of a the significance of the International Polka of his exhibit, Pasquines, a Spanish word So, Polka Happiness swings wildly from ings evoke a level of emotional response which we go back to); and for the spiri­ Bantu high school. "Classrooms," he says, TUAL COUNTRY commercial age. Association and briefly examines the which can only be roughly translated to fascinating to nearly ridiculous. In the in me that is unexpected. I am surprised tual (that which sustains us and that which "are traps to catch our minds, our souls." December 5,1992-January 31,1993 polka scenes in Milwaukee and Buffalo mean satire or lampoon. But the work end, it treats the polka well' in two re­ that the work moves me as much as it we cannot understand). His teacher, the aging but vital Mr. M., Madison Art Center in the 1970s. The authors mix verbatim itself shows that Roldan is not from the After its abrupt arrival at at the Pop Art spects. First, Mr. Blau's photographs does. My response to these paintings is a who has engineered the pairing of the interviews, musicology, sociological (and midwestern United States. His earthy period, Works from the Permanent Col­ present an honest (but not quite insider's) sense of connection to a larger whole Leslie Fedorchuk two students with characteristic enthusi­ You're in Carnegie Hall and you're asked mythopoetic!) discussions of the polka palette and amorphous shapes look alien lection proceeds at a more deliberate view of the polka world. They range from which seems to contradict the title of the asm, vehemently resists the rebellion, by the woman on stage to approach her, party and first-person accounts of polka to the local environment, and seem more pace. The Campbell's Soup serigraphs weird and almost cynical (two enormous exhibit, The Solitary Experience. especially his prize pupil's involvement cut off a piece of her clothing with scis-

10 Art Muscle 11 Copy or Original? sors and take the cloth swatch with you. RODGERS AND... The activity continues until many audi­ Jack F&rbes Wilson & Kay Stiefel For approximately the same ence members have snipped away her December 11, 1992-January 17, 1993 clothing. She's naked. It's over, maybe. amount of money as you would Stackner Cabaret Welcome to a Flux concert by Yoko Ono. pay for a reproduction, you can A part of her Nine concert pieces for John Cage were included with the documents Rodgers And... is a collection of Broad­ have an original, distinctive, of Fluxus works on view at the Madison way songs by the renowned Richard Art Center. Is the audience the performer? Rodgers and his numerous collaborators. one-of-a-kind piece of furniture, Are the cloth remnants sculpture? How The revue is fun and smart, cleverly or- painting, vase, table setting piece can this and other related actions define ganized into a collection of musical Fluxus? numbers grouped by collaborative part­ of hand-made jewelry, lamp, ner: Rodgers And Hart, —And Hammer- stein, —And Sondheim, —And Charnin, sculpture or other exclusive object In the realm of Fluxus, everything is —And.., Each selection is connected by possible and nothing stays the same. The for you, your home or office. short nanative selections of interesting only constant throughout Fluxus activity facts and backstage stories that provide is a strong disregard for complacent art information on these partnerships and making. Since the early 1960s, Fluxus the highly hum-able hits that grew out of movements have expanded and influ­ Come and see for yourself. them. enced the definition of art, theater, music and correspondence while disintegrat­ ing the boundaries between them. Both Wilson and Stiefel are such ebullient performers that these Broadway tunes bubble offthe stage. They are a great pair. A television turned on its side projects a Although both sing, Stiefel is really the continuous vertical line which seduces one with the voice: floating beautiful the viewer's stare without images or light notes from her upper register and sound. This piece, Nam June Paik's Zen warm golden tones from her lower, she for T.V., disregards the formal canons of easily demonstrates her comfortable com­ minimalism and consciously negates the mand of vocal range—especially in "So a*° iconography of pop imagery. Ben Vau- Much You Loved Me" from a little known GALLERY OF WISCONSIN ART LTD. tier displays a similar disregard for popu­ musical called Rex, about Henry VIII. lar images by presenting a collage of pho­ EXCLUSIVELY WISCONSIN, AFFORDABLE, ORIGINAL, FINE ART tographs depicting his buttock in But­ tocks Wallpaper. Further eschewing the Wilson is an amazing pianist; acting a position of pop icons, John Lennon draws scene with one arm around Stiefel as they 931 East Ogden Avenue, humorous cosmetics, with felt pen, on a sing a duet, he's still playing the accom­ at the corner of Ogden and Astor photograph of an anonymous fan. He paniment with the other hand! As a mat­ (414) 278-8088 inscribes the photo with "a date for George ter of fact, he works the piano so com­ Natalie Soref, proprietor from John ?/" an action of disregard for pletely and it is so effectively incorpo­ Gallery hours his celebrity stature and a gesture of cor­ rated into the blocking (direction by Pe­ Monday-Saturday 10:00 to 5:00 respondence. Lennon's unsentimental use ter Amster) that the piano may nearly be of a found photograph is light-hearted considered a third character. and unpretentious. The piece recalls Marcel Duchamp's LJI.O.O.Q., an altered Sometimes the narrated sections are over reproduction of Mona Lisa with mous­ the top, pushing the camp when there's REP PLAYS OMSK / YOLANDA MARCULESCU tache and goatee and simultaneously an opportunity to relax a bit and give the precedes Christian Boltanski's use of audience a breather, but these perform­ anonymous photographic subjects. ers are loaded with charisma and it's nothing but appreciation they get when CHANNEL 10 they lay into the music of Rodgers And... By any definition, the act of disassocia- (insert the name of your favorite collabo­ ARTS PLACE tion with the art apparatus is a Fluxus rator). The Milwairke Rep staple, as is the use of contradiction. traveled to Omsk, Takehisa Kosugi's untitled audio tape Russia, to perform The medleys are fun but don't pack the includes directions for specific tape splic­ ''Our Town"and wallop that comes with the complete ing and editing while simultaneously "According to individual numbers. When Wilson and calling for random listening, illustrating Coyote."Also, a Stiefel take on the full song it gives them profile of the late, the emphasis of chance and accident. the opportunity to explore characteriza­ great Milwaukee tions more effectively. A duet between soprano, Yolanda 'm While negating the restrictions of tradi­ Noah and his wife about married life on Marculescu. Repeats tional art making, Fluxus practitioners the ark from the show Two By Two was 10:30pm Thursday, Christo, Per Kirkeby, Klaus Staek and particularly enjoyable. The characters February 11. Joseph Beuys were influenced by were broadly drawn, providing a truly Duchamp's ready-mades, the multiple funny and yet believable picture of what and his persistent anti-art stance. Staek's conditions must have been in such an WirSetzen unsDurchpiesentsa. mounted unusual situation. And from Carousel, brass knuckle on a wooden placard. The the song "If I Loved You" was a complete TRINITY DANCE COMPANY words S^g Hex/printed on it demonstrate story all by itself, to which the addition of fascist sentiments and anti-bourgeois their clear and simple acting styles brought posturing. out the hankies in the house.

Presenting a sample of Fluxus activity, The comfortable in-your-holiday-living the Madison Art Center has mounted an room atmosphere was created by Kate exhibition of complex, contradictory, Henderson who designed a cozy and humorous and highly influential arts workable setting from the narrow stage practices. The wide ranging Fluxus space that miraculously accommodated remnants presented here posit milestone an easy chair, window seat and fireplace. ideologies with some works, but their Wayne White's costumes were simple intended casual nature is negated by their and elegant in act one but Stiefel's act two installation in museum display cases. In skirt seemed inappropriate, and one the Fluxus end, there is no end. particular change was a fun idea but broke the creative efficiency earlier established Note: In the Spirit of Fluxus will open at with costume pieces and hand props. the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis on February 14 through June 6,1993, then Rogers And... is one of the best of its travel to Chicago's Museum of Contem­ genre. The lively musical revue created porary Art November 20, 1993-January and performed by local artists is a thor­ 16, 1994. This exhibition will include oughly enjoyable evening out, and these works in all Fluxus genres by artists such talented partners should be showing up as Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Nam June again soon. Paik, Ben Vautier, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri and LaMonte Young. Raeleen McMillion Brad Killam A Viewer-Supported Service ofMATC, an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution. 12 Art Muscle "The toy is the child's a the first concrete example of art, and when mature age comes, the perfected examples will not give his mind the same feelings of warmth, or the same enthusiasms, or the same sense of conviction."

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"The Beach Adonis" Linda (Lola) Colano is a student in metals at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Ken's suit, sandals, wreath and discus are made of sterling silver and copper. "I've always been fascinated by Barbie and Ken. Ken is the asexual man, but Barbie was kind of an ideal. We thought we'd grow up and look like her, and it was kind of a letdown when we grew up and didn't."

"Kira" Jim Chism is a goldsmith who restores antique jewelry and does custom design work. Kira's suit is made from silver, garnets, pearls and onyx. "It's funny how important Barbies are to girls. Maybe too important. I tried to borrow a Barbie from a six-year-old and she burst into screaming tears."

"Ken Tut and Bam-Bam Barbie" C.C. Conrad's specialty is designing jewelry for famous people: Cher, Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton, for example. "But," she says, "this is the first time the famous people have ever been plastic." Ken Tut wears a rare African green garnet necklace. Bam-Bam Barbie wears a green peridot with 14-karat v-neck collar.

"Alice" Suzanne Silers' jewelry from beads, metal, painted clay and crystals has been sold at many area stores. "I played with a Francie doll when I was little. Now my daughter has an Ariel doll, that Mermaid? And sometimes I fight with her because I want to brush Ariel's hair. It's easy to get caught up in it all over again."

Untitled (Opposite page) Debra Dembowski is a Milwaukee artist working in metals, and her jewelry featuring fanciful characters is sold at area galleries. Her Barbie's suit is of sterling silver. "Looking back on my childhood I realize my Barbie playtime rituals took on an almost obsessive quality. I alone could determine how her life would unfold. I felt so powerful then. Of course, real life is nothing like that. The lack of control over other people was always a difficult for me. My major struggle with the issue became apparent in college, beginning with a series of drawings and watercolors based on Barbie doll imagery. They were very powerful, emotionally charged childhood images symbolic of a power I once held. These days I've made my peace with Barbie and no longer feel the compulsion to dismember her. Although the literal image of Barbie has disappeared from my work, I still see elements of her. Once again I'm playing with and creating characters and once again I'm the master of the destiny of them all."

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His New York dance troupe, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zanc Dance Company, was in Chicago for two performances in December at the Blackstone Theater. The company will be performing in Milwaukee on February 26 and 27 at Alverno College's Pittman Theater.

In both his larger production ofLast Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land (a portion of which was presented here in 1991) and in the mixed offering of short pieces in Chicago, Jones enriches his dances with elements of narrative, emotion, anger and pathos, yet never drowns in any one of these devices—devices often shunned by more abstract (post-modern) companies. He expresses his relentless personal explorations through the vocabulary of both classical and modern dance technique. What results are clear and poignant statements. Dancers couple and part, they may raise fists or offer a hand, they may embrace or support one another. There is an urgency in Jones' work, an imperative. It's as if no matter what approach he's taking, he's saying, "Feel, con­ nect, be brave in this time of adversity, explore and forgive."

Bill T. Jones: I am certainly no formalist. I grew up in an era of formalists, and some of my favorite choreographers are formalists. But I've never been able to get away from the desire to talk about things. A lot of it is about situation, and the work has always been about identity, the struggle for identity, using memory and projection. I think for me the human experience is also an emotional experience. You can also say that it's the journey of thought, but also the journey of human emotion. That's what art is about. Art is made from humans, and ifthat' s the case then it's kind of a mirror. It is about our ability to think, yes, but it's also about our ability to heal, to sense and receive.

Jones began dancing in the late 1970s. He met his collaborator and lover Arnie Zane at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Zane was studying theater and art history. Jones was in theater and dance, and encouraged Zane to dance. They both enrolled in a contact improvisation workshop and eventu­ ally began to choreograph together. Thus began what was to become apowerful 17-year working and personal bond between the two unlikely partners, Jones being one of 12 children born to migrant potato pickers in upstate New York, and Zane the second son of Italian/Jewish immigrants. The dance company they created reflects the merging of disparate identities: gay men, black women, a white woman, and a somewhat rotund white male.

Zanc died of AIDS in 1989.

Arnie said, "You will go on and find someone else." He knew me. Arnie was my coach. He was my fan club. He was everything. So now, I see all that we did together was getting myself in training to understand how to do that for myself and how to do that for other people, which is really a big payoff. I'm learning how to be compassionate and nuturing. I'm not a father. I would like it if life had dealt me that, but I don't think that's going to be the the way it is. There are other ways to nurture. The dancers arc smart, they're hungry for something. They want something real. They are looking for any authority figure to reveal that rock center. I keep thinking I want to be worthy of their respect, but I am a human; I'm not a superman. That's a tough one, Photograph by Patrick A. Robinson and any parent must feel that.

On AIDS:

By the year 2,000, there's going to be [ 30-40 million ] sick people. It's going to be more and more common, something that is not just a metaphor. Pm trying to prepare myself for what it means to have a world full of more sick people, to be sick. That is my fate. The work is a metaphor and something more than a metaphor. I mean, its always about the human condition. We have to help one another and we are always dying. That's what we do here. We die. Dancer/choreographer Jones says that one of the undercurrents in his work has to do with identity, how where we come from shapes what we are. I'm looking at people and trying to understand them and trying to imitate life. In Uncle Tom's Cabin, I asked a lot of ques­ Bill X Jones on art, tions about what a struggle it is for us to live together. Sometimes I'm just at a loss as to how to keep going. It seems there will never be a way to get rid of the conflicts between ourselves. Then there's a school of thought that says we are alone AIDS, anger, living, ^ and that can be dignified and supreme... why don't we just accept it. But I am a people person. loving ana dying In Uncle Tom's, I was striving for a bridge between the person I had become, the life I led with Arnie and the art world, and where I started. Family is important. I didn't want to recognize that for a long time. Part of my identity and my emo­ tional patterning is as a Jones, a member of the Jones family, who we are as working class blacks from the south, not par­ by Debra Brehmer ticularly educated, but being driven in a way that many black people in that generation were driven. So that's what that piece was struggling to understand. But it was also a dialogue with my mother's faith. She has no conflicts with her vision of the universe. But I do.

In one section of Uncle Tom's, Jones calls to the stage a local minister, priest or rabbi and conducts a spontaneous interview about faith. Photograph by Lois Greenfield 23 I was trying to get those people to reveal themselves and see how it works. perimeter—the delight of growth, of knowledge, of the ability to create beauty, I found most of them unflappable. They had this faith. The faith and the rapidity with which it all can end." His second solo, Last Night on Earth transcends their doubts and I understand it. I do have it, the condition­ (a Chicago premiere), was staged against a striking, luminous poika-dotted ing from my mother and being a black American. I think this comes in backdrop by the painter Ross Bleckner. The music was a robust mix of Koko with our mother's milk: this notion of the world being a very difficult Taylor, Nina Simone doing Kurt Weill, and Dame Edith Sitwell. Another critic place and you have no choice but to keep going and you will cross the River described this one as, "A solo about living, dying and restorative anger...a Jordan and it will be explained to you at a later time. I don't know if that's collection of moves and gestures from the odd and raunchy to athletic exactly it. I don't expect the River Jordan, but I do feel the push that comes somersaults and soft wide jumps." with a certain world view. I'm not allowed to fail in life. You are expected to go forward. My mother suffered great adversity, yet she is very optimis­ When I watch Jones perform, I catch myself momentarily holding my breath, tic. That is the reward ofher faith. She's a product of 400 years of real as if breathing would puncture this perfect spectacle of motion and insight. It's horror, but what comes out of it is something quite strong. I want to be a feeling akin to the way you'd watch a high wire act, except Jones' risk is not part of that. I couldn't one of falling but of love myself if I didn't. exposure. Somehow That makes me the the theatricality ofth e fighter I am. It makes dance never conceals me aware of my values the vulnerability of and how to serve them the physical body. with pride and vehe­ With his power and mence. Someone once emotion at such a said ofm y dancing that febrile, intense level, I have a natural for­ it's as if he could ward momentum. I implode before us. think that's a meta­ When it's over, I leave phor for my whole life. with feelings of both sadness and rejuvena­ Then there's the con­ tion. Critics always flicted side. That's mention the anger in what makes an artist Jones' work. out of me. The ques­ tions, the central ques­ There is a lot of tions such as: Am I anger in my work. fooling myself? Does When I perform any of this really mat­ alone, I'm really ter? You've been con­ close to the edge. Or ditioned to be the way you can read it in you are, but do you the way people part­ dare pull back the cur­ ner or the jagged tain? Those moments way in which the are painful and dark stage is shaped. Last but I couldn't live Photographs by Patrick A. Robinson Night on Earthhzs a without them. I do lot of anger in it. want in this life peace, to accept my conflicts and be able to find happiness Some of my work is really frothing with it. There's also a lot of sexuality in spite of them. That's my wish. I can't say that I always do what I want in it, tenderness. to do, but I do what I feel, what I truly feel. One writer said that Jones "sets himself on fire." For Jones, the flipsid e of identity seems to be alienation. As Jones talks about creating his own identity through embracing and understanding his past, both There's a lot of heat that gets generated when one reveals oneself. There in life and on stage (which seem to be inseparable), he also talks about his refusal is a lot of anger in being alive as a person in the 20th century—how cheated to feel alienated. we are. Everything is so cheap. So dirty. That's one level of anger. But I am also a person When I was working filled with faith in on Uncle Tom% I said people. If you watch a lot, "I refuse to be al­ me perform, I'm ienated." There's a probably one of the thought in the 20th most open perform­ century that says art­ ers. I don't hide a ists can only exist if lot of what I'm feel- they are alienated, ingfrommomentto outside of society. moment. And when That's changing. But you do that, when before you're going to you present your take on the world, start jugular to an audi­ at home. Are you ence, you obviously human? Can you let have faith that they people get close? Do won't or can't de­ you have the skill of stroy you. intimacy? It is a skill. I think you develop it. "Hey, everybody I'm a special black, let's have some fun, which means I'm one you only live once of the privileged blacks and when you're who have been able to dead you're done. find some sort of rec­ Let the good times ognition in a very rac­ roll.'' [from the ist, oppressive society. Koko Taylor song But by the same-to­ in Last Night on ken, I am a black. Once Earth.] I understand that, I can live with it. No, I There's a deep irony don't have the same tastes as maybe the majority of black people do, but in that. The world has generated the greatest human carnage of all times that shouldn't drive me crazy as it used to. The Uncle Tom thing. How and I'm one of those persons who is literally standing on the edge of it. do I fit in? Am I a phony, am I not real? No, I'm conflicted. That's one And yet, you're sitting there, we're about to have a good time, to watch way you start. Once I know that about myself, I can be more open with something, to be moved to take a little moment out of our lives. What can other black people and I can be more accepting of white people. The other I bring you? What tidings can I bring you at this moment? The situation way makes you constantly angry at white people and constantly alienated is such an insult to us and the hopeful children who live inside of us. How and afraid of black people. do we find hope? Let the good times roll.

Jones danced two solo pieces in the Chicago program. The first, RtdRoom, was At the time of this conversation, Jones wasn 't sure which work he would present set against a huge, billowing, bright red backdrop, with music by Stuart in Milwaukee. One of his current projects, however, is a new "big" piece to be Argabright and Robert Longo. One critic said that this piece, "conveyed—with presented in 1994 based on a series of workshops he is conducting for people snaps of the fingers and a smile, a balance or skitter around the stage who have or have had a life-threatening illness. >**»• 24 Art Muscle UWM ART MUSEUM 3253 North Downer Avenue Verging on Emergence The creative talents of artists from southeastern Wisconsin will be showcased, through March 14, 1993 AGNES MARTIN FINE ARTS GALLERY February 12-April 4 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard John Colt: Five Decades of Work UWM Emeritus Professor Colt will be represented by over fifty paintings and drawings in this retrospective exhibition. Tiffany to Ben Tre: through February 21,1993 ART HISTORY GALLERY A Century of Glass 3203 North Downer Avenue March 26-May 9 The Art in the Map Historic maps from the 16th-19th century will be featured. February 3-28, 1993 Opening Reception: February 3, 8-9:30 pm FOR INFORMATION TELEPHONE 414-229-5070 ANDY WARHOL: Works from the PermanentCollection

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Prints from the Permanent Collection Dave Brubeck Duke's Place Feb 7 - Gliere, Katchaturian & Vaughan Wil­ Solo & duo jazz piano; 8pm; $17 & 20; Pabst With curator Sue Taylor; 1:30pm; free w/ad­ Jazz piano; 8pm; $14, $19, $24; Pabst Thea­ Milwaukee Repertory Theater mission; Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 liams at Alverno College Pitman Theater, 3401 Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 ter, 144 E Wells; 278-3663 Tribute to Duke Ellington; W Su 730pm, Th F 5 39th; Mar 21 - Downey, Hovhaness & Sow- C I fa S\$ i f I i e d / 8pm, Sa 5 & 9pm; $7.50 & $10; Stackner erby at Marquette Weasler Auditorium, 1442 February 27 March 25 March 13 Cabaret, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 W Wisconsin; 3pm; $7:50/$6; 276-0615 Howard Ben Tre Paul Dresher & Present Musk String Academy of Wisconsin American glass sculptor will lecture at Tiffany Performance & lecture; 7pm; $12.50 ($10.50 Student recital marathon; 9am-3pm; free; February 2, 3 members); Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 to Ben Tre exhibit opening; 5:30pm; free w/ February 9 UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 When the Chickens Come Home to Roost admission; Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 The Guild Piano Trio New York production; PAC; 273-7206 8pm; $15, $25, $30; Pabst Theater, 144 E February 27 March 14 Wells; 278-3663 Kodo Ravenna Helson, cello February 7 Drummers of Sado, Japan; 8pm; $14-$28; LINCOLN ART POTTERY 230pm; free; Villa Terrace, 2220 N Terroce Muir of the Mountains February 11,13,14 Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 278-3663 Gallery 218 One-man play presented by Gerald Pelrine of French Valentine Mondays a cnnnnrativcooperativae ' March 19-20 the Peninsula Players; 2pm; Miller Art Center, Poet's Monday Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra February 27 Bel Canto Chorus 107 S Fourth Ave, Sturgeon Bay; 743-6578 Open mike & featured ads; 8:30pm; Cafe Catherine Comet, guest conductor 15th Annual Grand Viennese Ball Menotti'* The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Melange, 720 Old World Third; 291-9889 William Helmers, bass clarinetist UWM Symphony Orchestra, Margery Deutch Manticore & Missa O Pulchritudo; 8pm; $8- February 10-April 30 Ravel, Debussy, McDonald, Franck; Th, Su conducting; benefits UWM music students; 7pm- $21; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 278-3663 Blue Plate Special 1 Wednesdays 7:30pm Sa 8pm; $12.50-$46; PAC: Uihlein 1am; $150; Marc Plaza Hotel, Crystal Bali- Broadway Baby Dinner Theater Hal; 273-7206 Poetry room; reservations 229-4762 10% OFF ALL March 19-21 5132 W Mill Rd; info 358-2020 8:30pm; Y Not II, 706 E Lyon; 347-9972 MILWAUKEE* (414) 277-7800 PROCION DYE Madama Butterfly February 12 February 28 FEBRUARY 5-28 Puccini February 12-14 Ballet Foldorico Nocional de Mexico • Brian Tolbert / Michele Peterson 1668 N. Warren Ave. M-W-F 10-6 February 17 Carmina Burana Florentine Opera A Valentine Cabaret ABSTRACTIONS / MIXED MEDIA DRAWINGS (Off Brady & Farwell) T-Th 12-7 Sonic Harvest 8pm; $10, $18, $25; Pabst Theater, 144 E CarlOrff FEBRUARY 14 Concert 3PM- 5m Milwaukee, WI 53202 Sat 12-4 F^a 8pm Su 230pm; $16-$52; PAC: Uihlein Joyce Parker Productions Yolanda Martinez & Oscar Mireles, poetry, Wells; 278-3663 Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra & • Jeny GrillO TriO : Endangered Hearts Hal; 273-7206 Performance, dancing & cash bar; F,Sa 8pm with music by Tony Finlayson, Jim Glynn & Concert Choir; 3pm; $ 10; Lawrence University $3 general admission / $2 WPAA members Su 2:30pm; $8; reservations recommended; February 13 Chapel, Appleton; 832-6749 Steve T"dton; 7:30pm; $5; Woodland Pattern MARCH 5 - 28 * THE BANS OF40 March 20 2685 S Kinnickinnic; 744-8866 Book Center, 720 E Locust; 263-5001 Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet APRIL 2-MAY 2 Silk 8i Bamboo Ensemble Early Music Now February 28 • Steve Rademan/Randy James THE MARKET PLACE Early Music Now February 12 February 19 Recorder quartet; 5pm (pre-concert silent Glenn Asch, violin ALLUDED VISIONS / GRIDW0RKS Music of 11 th century China; 5pm (pre-concert The Richest Dead Man Alive Traditional Latin American Michael Craft Johnson auction & chocolate reception 3pm, lecture Pat Hauser, piano tea 4:15pm); $15; Centennial Hall: Loos Room, Theater Grottesco OPENINGS are on the FIRST FRIDAYS from 7-10™ The author will read from Rehearsing & sign 4pm); $15; All Saints Cathedral, 818 E Jun­ French Romantic music (Saint-Saens, Chaus- Arts & Crafts Also open for April's GALLERY NIGHT. 733 N 8th; 225-3113 Contemporary farce; 7:30pm; JM Kohler Arts eau; 225-3113 1 copies; 6-9pm; Anderson Arts Center, 121 son & Lekeu); 2pm; West Bend Gallery of Fine W&@5i && X3&&B&& 2034 E. North Ave. 278-7338 Center, 608 New York, Sheboygan; 458- 66th, Kenosha; 653-0481 Arts, 300 S 6th, West Bend, 334-9638 Mon. 10-5. T-F10-8, Set 10-5:30 March 21 6144 February 13 ?vr*$p*»*»»*»»»»***XX. Music for our Time February 19, 21 7th Annual High School Honors Orchestra February 28 ART COLLECTION Music of Arnold Shoenberg, Charles Ives & February 12-20 The Coffee House Festival; 7:30pm $7.50/$4; Pabst Theater, UWM Fine Arts Quartet Works by Joan Miro, Marc Chagall. Jerry Grillo Dennis Janzer; 7:30pm; $5/$3; Piano Gal­ Bouquets! Feb 19 - Lisa Jardanowski & open stage; 144 E Wells; 229-4308 With the Daniel String Quartet; 3pm; $12/$6; Henri Matisse, Alfredo Mullen lery, 219 N Milwaukee; info 964-4444 Carroll Players Raphael Soyer, and Joseph Tomanek. EARWAVES 8:30pm; $3; Feb 21 - Open stage; 7:30pm; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 F 8pm Sa 5pm; $6/$5; Otteson Theatre; 100 very reasonable prices. Call for $1; 631 N 19th;744-FOLK February 13-March 14 2218 N FARWELL photos or an appointment at GALLERY 218 March 23 N East Ave, Waukesha; 524-7301 Music at Carroll College March 1 414-235-9090 or 414-223-8170 Takacs String Quartet February 21 Feb 13 - Carroll College Jazz Ensemble; Woodwind Arts Quartet 218 South Second Street 8pm; $15, $25, $30; Pabst Theater, 144 E February 12-March 5 Readers Theater for Children 7:30pm; Iree; Feb 18 - Cincinnati, percussion 8pm; $6/$3; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 Wells; 278-3663 Quorum Multicultural stories, music & images; ages 5- group; 7pm; $7; Feb 19 - Waukesha Sym­ "€tit>Ati5crcb Hearts" Mark Anderson up;2pm; $4/$3; Haggerty Museum, 13th & phonic Band Percussion Ensemble; 7pm; $5 March 2,16 March 26-28 Theatre X Feb 20 - Middle & high school percussion Music in the Museum with Jeffrey Hollander cVbourn; 288-7290 Sunday An Evening in Paris Quirky strangers meet; W Th 7:30pm, F 8pm, ensembles; 7pm Shattuck Recital Hall, 7:15pm Mar 2 - Fats Waller Returns; 20th century February 14,1993 / ^ZltJH. FARWELL AVE. Milwaukee Symphony Pops Sa 5 & 8pm, Su 2pm; $10-$14 (Th pay what Auditorium; $2; Feb 26 - Carroll Concert Choir American musk THE GANG OF 40: Richard Hayman, guest conductor you can; dinner packages available); 158 N dpu tofypu 6 Carrolleers; 8pm Campus Center Ballroom; Mar 16 - Issac Al beniz & the Musk of Spain & M H| W j| !l!/-JJJ13JJ $3" JAYWALKER:; F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $12.50-$46; PAC Broadway; 278-0555 $2; Feb 28 - Suoni The Trio; 4pm Shattuck Latin America; 5:30pm; free w/admission; Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Saturdays Recital Had; $6 & $8; Mar 5 - Project CREATE Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 MARCH 5,~ 28,1993 SPECIAL February 17 Music on KK Series Arts Potpourri; 6:30pm; donation; Mar 14 - March 27 Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet Feb 6, 20 - TBA; Feb 13 Ovidiu Marinescu, Waukesha Choral Union, Messiah Concert; March 2 &4 TAKE TOUR RECEIPT A Celebration of American Song Rendition by Mario Williams; 7pm; free; UWM: cello & Siobhan McGuire, piano; Feb 27 • 2pm; free; Shattuck Auditorium (unless Veronika String Quartet GAIA TRADITIONS GALLERY ACROSS THE STREET Great Lakes Opera Union Wisconsin Room; 229-6997 Dottie Driggs, violin, Judy Kuhn, cello & Larry noted),l 00 N East Ave, Waukesha; 524-7182 Tu 12:30pm; free; UWM: Union Gallery; Th 8pm; $7; UWM-Recital Hall; 229-4308 Hoey, pkmo; Mar 6 - Steve Larson, piano, 8pm; $4/$2; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 GRAND OPENING MARCH 12,1993 FOR 10% OFF February 17-March 14 Mary Larson & Nancy Heise, vocals & Jami February 14 The Marriage Proposal, Anton Chekov Hoffman, narrator; Mar 13 - Dorothy Walsh, Endangered Hearts March 5-7 Wearable Art Tapestries TOUR NEXT PURCHASE performance The Happy Journey to Camden & Trenton, Celtic harp; Mar 20 - Linda Li, piano & John Jerry Grillo Trio Breaking Bonds OFFEB EXPIRES MARCH 1 Thornton Wilder Unique 3ewel ry Framed Originals Bleu el, saxophone; Mar 27 - TBA; Classical; 3- 3-5pm; $3 ($2 WPAA members); Gallery Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra February 4, March 4 Mask of Hiroshima, Ernest Ferlita 4pm; free; 2685 S Kinnickinnic; 744-8866 218.218S 2nd; 277-7800 Neal Gittleman, conductor Tribal A»+ Jewelry Appraisals Mad Matter Performance Series Acacia Theatre Yefim Bronfman, pianist; Beethoven & Joseph Rabensdorf of Foothold Dance Collec­ Th-Sa 8pm Su 2pm; $10 & $12.50; 3300 N February 2 & 16 February 14 Shostakvich; F, Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $12.50- 809 N. CASS STREET tive & guests present performance art, poetry, Sherman; 223-4996 Musk in the Museum with Jeffrey Hollander Jan Knutson, soprano $46; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Ml LWAU KEE, WL 53202 BELLA BEADS dance & music; 7pm; donation appreciated; Feb 2 - Sparkling Musk of France 2:30pm; free; Villa Terrace, 2220 N Terrace —GRAND OPENING— Lincoln Center for the Arts, 820 E Knapp, Rm February 18-21 Feb 16 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, America's March 7 414-276-2838 110; 276-2243 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas First Keyboard Wizard; 5:30pm; free w/ February 14 The Age of Romanticism: Large selection of Dale Gutzman Productions admission; Milwaukee Art Museum; 224-3200 Love Songs: A Musical Valentine Beethoven meets Schubert beads & accessories February 10 Th F 8pm, Sa 5:30 & 8pm, Su 2 & 8pm; $15; Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Milwaukee Public Theatre Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano Low prices Debbie Davis, performance artist; Deb Loewen, February 2, March 24 Special benefit event; details 271 -8484 Historical Keyboard Society • choreographer & John Koethe, poet; 7pm; Milwaukee Symphony Classical Conversations 7pm; $15; UWM: Recital Hall; 258-6133 GRAPHICS Repairs, custom work & free; UWM Art Museum; 229-6243 February 18-28 Neal Gittieman, conductor February 19,20 STAT CAMERA Agfa RPS 2024. classes available Prelude to a Kiss Feb 2 - Beethoven & the Revolution (3rd Sym­ HMS Pinafore March 8 able to produce screen and Craig Lucas POSTERS 2217 North FarweU Avenue / 272-BEAD phony); Mar 24 - Beetoven & Beyond (8th & Gilbert & Sullivan Songs of Schubert reverse shots. Includes 11 Milwaukee Public Theatre 9th Symphonies); 7:30pm; $8-$50; Pabst Milwaukee Opera Company John Wustman with U of Illinois vocalists; 8pm; boxes of Agfa copyproof Tues-Sat 11-7 / Sun: 12-5 / Closed evoy 1st & 3rd Sua Romantic comedy; Th-Su 8pm; Alverno Col­ Theater, 144 East Wells; 278-3663 8pm; $8, $14, $18.50; Pabst Theater, 144 E $6/$3; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 FRAMING CPP and CPN paper. Make Thursday-Sunday lege: Wehr Hoi, 3401 S 39th; info 271 -8484 Wells; 278-3663 us an offer! Cash and carry. Broadway is Murder February 4-6 March 9 Ask for Brad at 425-8800. DePalmas Dinner Theatre February 18-28 The Romance of the Piano February 19 & 21 Pamela Frank, violin Murder/mystery/comedy; Th-Sa 8pm Su 2pm; The Menaechmus Twins Concord Chamber Orchestra Peter Serkin, piano a>7ic/ Franchesca'sRistorante, 6229 WForest Home; Ptaulus Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 1209 EAST BRADY STREET >atcau& James Plondke, guest conductor 8pm; $15, $30, $25; Pabst Theater, 144 E 546-a.UE Marquette University Theatre Zdenek Makal, concudor HOURS: OPPORTUNITIES Vladimir Feltsman, pianist; Dvorak & Schu­ Copland (Appalachian Spring)& Beethoven Wells; 278-3663 Th/ 8pm Sa 5 8.8:30pm Su 2pm; $8; Helfaer M-F: 10-6, SAT: 10-5 fob youi, mann; Th 7:30pm F 7pm Sa 8pm; $12.50- (8th Symphony); F 8pm at Memorial Lutheran Now-February 14 Theater, 13th & Clybourn; 288-7504 TELEPHONE: 277-8228 $46; PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Church, Glendale, 3pm Su at St Paul's Episco­ March 10 A Walk in the Woods pal Church, Milwaukee; $8; 278-8572 Milwaukee Symphony Open Rehearsal Boone, NC. An Appalachian Summer, Lee Blessing February 18-March 13 February 5-27 Rachmaninoff's The Bells; 7:30pm; free; PAC: a multi-arts festival sponsored by Waukesha Civic Theatre Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge The Coffee House February 20 Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 G R A V A Appalachian State University is seeking PRELUDES, PROCESSIONALS, An American & a Russian nuclear arms nego­ Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Octets UWM Professional Theater Training Company Feb 5 - Mid-Winter Folk Festival finalists; Butch Thompson Trio entries for the Halpert Biennial, a RECESSIONALS, AND MORE tiator share walks; F,Sa 8:15pm Su 2pm; Vintage jazz & ragtime; 8pm; $12; Alverno March 10 $8.50; 506 N Washington, Waukesha; 547- Plays run in rotation; Tu-Th 7:30pm, F,Sa 8pm, Feb 6 - David H B Drake, Friends of (he Heart G A L L E R Y national juried exhibition held in College Pitman Theatre, 3401 S 39th; 382- Galen GRAPHICS • POSTERS • FRAMING 0708 Su 2:30pm; $9 8, $11; UWM: Studio Theater; concert; Feb 13 - Mid-Winter Folk Festival conjunction with An Appalachian winner & others; 8pm; $5; Feb 20 - Dan Zahn, 6044 New York jazz musician; 7pm; $6/$4; UWM: DONALD SIPE 229-4308 Summer. $1S entry fee - cash awards folksinger/songwriter; Feb 21 - Open Stage; Union Wisconsin Room; 229-4308 414-332-6473 Now-February 14 7:30pm; $1; Feb 26 - Brennan Cornwell, February 20 given. Deadline for entries is April 23, How I Got That Story February 19,20 original songs; Feb 27 - Bill Young & Jane UWM Wind Ensemble & Symphony Band March 11 1993. For prospectus please write Terry Amlin Gray The Outsiders Frietag; 8:30pm, $3 (unless noted); 631 N 8pm; $6/$3; PAC: Vogel Hall; 276-7206 Northern Lights Chamber Winds Suhre, Catherine Smith Gallery, Farthing Milwaukee Repertory Theater Christopher Sergei, after S E Hinton's novel 19th; info 744-FOLK 8pm; $4/$2; UWM: Recital Hall; 229-4308 Auditorium, Appalachian State University, Tu 7:30pm, W1:30 pm & 7:30pm, Th F 8pm, First Stage Milwaukee February 20 March 11-13 Boone, NC 28608. (704)262-3017. INTERIOR DESIGN Sa 5pm & 9pm, Su 2pm & 7:30pm; $6-15; Tale by a Greaser caught up in battles with the Socs; F Sa 8pm; $10.75; PAC Todd Wehr February 6 The Tallis Scholars The Russians Stiemk* Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Theater; 273-7206 Klezmer Conservatory Band Early Musk Now Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra & Chorus Eastern European Jewish folk/jazz; 8pm; $17 10 voice a capella choir from England; Renais­ Zdenek Macal, conductor Now-February 21 February 19-28 & $20; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 sance sacred music; 8pm; Cathedral of St Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff; Th 7:30pm F Pelleas and Melisande John, 812 N Jackson; $18 & $20; 225-3113 7pm Sa 8pm; $12.50-$46; PAC: Uihlein Halt; Claude Debussy Day of Absence Uptown Centre Stage Theatre Company February 6,13,20,27 273-7206 Skylight Opera February 25 Sales Rep Impressionist opera about a princess who falls Comical look at what would happen if all the Audubon Court Books African Americans in the city disappeared; Feb 6 - Peter Baime, flamenco guitar Paul Dresher & Present Musk March 12 Art Muscle Magazine has for her husband's brother; W Su 2 & 7:30pm, Video/audio presentation of musk theater Th 7:30pm, F Sa 8pm; $19-30; 813 N Jeffer­ F,Sa 7pm Su 3pm; $7/$5; Villa Theatre, 3610 Feb 13 - George Lindquist, classical guitar Tito Puente & His Latin Jazz Allstars positions available for sales works; 6pm; $4; Milwaukee Art Museum: son; 271-9580 W Villiard; into 873-2700, 963-6451 Feb 20 - Tena Hess, flute & Dave Kenney, 8pm; $ 18 & $22; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; reps within Metro Milwaukee Screening Room; into 271 -0711 278-3663 JACKIE RITKE dulcimer and the surrounding suburban Now-February 21 February 19-March7 Feb 21 • Don Linke, guitar; area. Must be a selr-motivated February 26-28 March 12 THE COLOR OF ANGST Ambrosio Shirley Valentine 7-11 pm; free; 383 W Brown Deer; 351 -9140 individual with media sales The Manhattan Rhythm Kings UWM Chamber Orchestra Romulus Linney Willy Russell February 12 —March 13 experience. Automobile necessary. Milwaukee Repertory Theater Sunset Playhouse February 7 & Marc h 7 Milwaukee Symphony Pops Amy Orsinger, flute & Kimberty Ashford, English Opening reception, Feb 12,4:3O-S:30pm Tu WSu 7:30pm, Th F 8pm, Sa5 8.9pm; $©• Th F 8pm; Sa Su 2 & 8pm (no pm show Mar 7); Chamber musk; 2:30pm; free; Piano Gallery, Harvey Felder, conductor horn; 7:30pm; $7.50/$4; UWM: Recital Hall; 1932 E. CAPITOL Send resume to: Art Muscle Magazine F Sa 8pm Su 7:30pm; $12.50-$46; PAC: 229-4308 $22; Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 $8; 800 Elm Grove Rd; 782-4430 219 N Milwaukee; info 423-0977 414-864-8220 P.O. Box 93219, Milwaukee, WI 53303 Uihlein Halt- 273-7206 fr 30 Art Muscle 31

Mm February 23 & 24 pm & 7:30pm, Th F 8pm, Sa 5pm & 9pm, Su Puppet Show 2pm & 7:30pm; $6-15; Stiemke Theater, 108 Ole Lukoie & The Princess & the Pea presented E Wells; 224-9490 by Issa Yakubov, National Puppet Theatre of Uzbekistan; 4:15 & 6:30pm; $4; Carroll Col­ March 7 lege, Otteson Theatre, 100 N East Ave, Anne of Green Gables ART EXHIBITIONS LECTURES Waukesha; 524-7301 Great American Children's Theatre Su 1 & 3pm; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 276- Central Wisconsin Women's Caucus for Art Elvehjem Museum of Art February 24-March 7 4230 Now-February 15 - Through Women's Vision Feb 4 - Katherine Bradford, Tandem Press; A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine Madison Municipal Building, 215 Martin Lu­ 5:30pm; Feb 11 - Catherine C Brawer, Cura­ March 10-14 Jewish Community Center Theater Company ther King Jr Blvd & Madison Senior Center, torial Conundrums: Understanding the Liebman Philadelphia Here I Come W 7:30pm, Sa 8pm, Su 2pm [also 7pm Mar 330 W Mifflin Collection of Chinese Export Porcelains; 5:30pm 7); $8; Ritz Theater, 6255 N Santa Monica; Brian Friel Feb 18 - James S Watrous, American Color 964-4444 Irish Fest Theatre Elvehjem Museum of Art Woodcuts; 4pm; Mar 1 - Panel on color wood­ W-Sa 8pm Su 2pm; $12 & $15; PAC: Vogel Now-March 28 - American Drawings & Wa­ cuts; 4:30pm ; Mar 18 - Andrew Stevens, February 25-27 Hall; 273-7206 tercolors, 1800-1945; From the permanent American & Japanese Color Woodcuts; 4pm The Clouds collection; Mar 25 - Louise Clark, The Penthesilea Vase: A Aristophanes March 10-28 Now-April 6 - American Color Woodcuts: Treasure in the Ancient Collection; 12:20pm; 8pm; $6/$4; Lawrence University: Stansbury The Swan Bounty from the Block, 1890s-1990s; 800 free; Rm 140; 800 University; 608/263-2246 Theatre, Appleton; 832-6749 Elizabeth Egloff University; 608/263-8188 American Inside Theatre Madison Art Center February 26-March 7 Love triangle includes an injured swan; W Th Grace Chosy Gallery Feb 13 - Susan Meisdas, on her work with The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the- 7:30pm, F Sa 8pm Su 2pm; $13 & $15 (3/17 Now-February 20 - Scott Zupanc, watercolor Magnum Photos, Inc.; 5pm; free; &24 pay what you can); Otteson Theatre, Moon Marigolds; Paul Zindel March 5-27 - Thomas Maakestad, paintings Art a la Carte luncheon lecture series: Feb 18 UW-Parkside Student Theatre; F Sa 7pm; Waukesha; 968-4555 218 N Henry; 608/255-1211 - Michael Connors, on his use of computers in Communication Arts Theatre; info 595-2345 art; Mar 18 - Andres Ernst, on the Pleasant March 11-21 Jura Silverman Gallery Company; 11:45am; $12 ($5 lecture only); February 26 & March 26 A Trio of Plays Celebrate Women Now-March 4 211 State; 608/257-0158 Third Coast Playwrights (& a Token Male) Wisconsin Artists, paintings in all media; Original Play Readings & Performances The Late Late Computer Date by Ludmilla Bolo March 6-May 6 MUSIC Feb 26 - Jane Archer & Rachel Makleff Trash & Treasures by Marion Youngquist Artistic Quilts, by Wisconsin quiltmakers; 143 Mar 26 - Judy Markowski & Alan Zuber- The Blue Goose by Jane Archer; Th-Sa 8pm Su S Washington, Spring Green; 608/546-6211 Elvehjem Museum of Art buehler; 8pm; $3; Theatre on KK, 2685 S 2pm; $10; 2685 S Kinnickinnic; 744-8866 Sunday live concerts Kinnickinnic; 744-8866 Madison Art Center Feb 7 - Kyle Dzapo, flute, Bellamy Hamilton, March 12-Aprii 18 February 13-March 28 - In Our Time: The piano; Feb 14 - Wisconsin Woodwind Quartet February 28-April 11 An Irish Reunion World as Seen by Magnum Photographers; Feb 21 - Pro Arte Quartet; Feb 28 - UW Madi­ A Raisin in the Sun Edward Morgan photojournalism; 211 State; 608/257-0158 son School of Music, Women in Music Festival Lorraine Hansberry Milwaukee Repertory Theater Mar 14 - Collegium Chamber Players; Mar 21 Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Tu WSu 7:30pm, 3 Irish Americans share music & stories; WSu Pyxis Gallery - Wingra Woodwind Quintet; Mar 28 - Uri Th F 8pm, Sa 5 & 9pm; $5-$22 Powerhouse 7:30pm, Th F 8pm, Sa 5 & 9pm; $7.50-$10; February 14-26 - Valentine's Day Special Vardi, cello; 2:30pm; free; 800 University; Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Stackner Cabaret, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Opening reception Feb 14 2-5pm; 2086 608/263-2246 Atwood; 608/249-0554 March 3-13 March 17-April 11 February 26 Twelfth Night Into the Woods FILM Paul Dresher & Present Music William Shakespeare Skylight Opera 8pm; $10/$6.50; First Unitarian Meeting Northern Stage Company Intertwining fairy tales; W Su 2 & 7:30pm, Th UW-Madison House, 900 University Bay Dr; 414/271 -0711 WTh 7:30pm Th F 8pm Su 2:30pm; $10-$l 2; 7:30pm, F Sa 8pm; $19-30; Dec 31 6 & Video Survey/Art of the Western World UWM: Fine Arts Theatre; 229-4308 10pm, $35; 813 N Jefferson; 271-9580 Feb 3 - The Early Renaissance Wisconsin Union Theater Feb 10 --The High Renaissance February 10 March 4-7 March 25-April 4 Feb 17 - Realms of Light: The Baroque Kodo; Drummers from Japan; 8pm; $16-$22; Execution of Justice Incommunicado Feb 24 - An Age of Reason, An Age of Passion 800 Langdon; 608/262-2201 Emily Mann Tom Dulack Mar 3 - Impressionism &. Post Impressionism Different Drummer Theatre Alliance Next Act Theatre Mar 17 - Into the Twentieth Century THEATER The trial of Dan White for the murder of Examination of Ezra Pound as he awaited trial Mar 24 - In Our Time; 8pm; $6; Lowell Hall, George Mascone & Harvey Milk; Th-Sa 8pm for treason; Th, F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm Su 2pm; 610 Langdon; 608/262-1417 Madison Repertory Theater Su 2:30pm; $10; PAC: Vogel Hall; info 347- $14 & $16; Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; March 12-April 14 0673 224-9490 The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar; W Th Su 7:30pm, F 8pm, Sa 5 & 8:30pm; $14.50 March 4-8, 11-13 & $17.50; 211 State; 608/256-0029 Waiting for Vern TELEVISION AND RADIO Jim DeVita Collision Theatre Ensemble Tuesdays Comical view of an actor overcoming his fear Guitar Nuts HECTOR'S of communicating with an auditorium full of For guitarists & fans; Channel 14; Feb 2 & 9 people; Th Su M 7:30pm, F,Sa 8pm; $10 (Mar 9pm; Feb 16 & 23 9:30pm MATA Channel 14 Lunch • Dinner 8 AIDS benefit); Helfaer Theatre, 525 N 13th; 481-8431 Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays Where the Waters Meet March 5,6,12-14 Christina Zawad'twsky & Mark Mars Fifth of July Lanford Wilson Feb 12 - Muneer Bahauddeen, artist Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa Feb 19 - Jill Sebastian, Atlas of the Interior F Sa 8pm, Mar 14 2:30pm; $6/$5; School Feb 26 - Roy F Staub, Prairie Ring Auditorium, 9508 Watertown Plank; 744-8916 Mar 5 - Design Milwaukee Mar 12 - Will Durst, political comedian March 6 Mar 19 - Ed Paschke, artist Contemporary Jazz by Sidestreet Ophelia Mar 26 - Seymour Chwast, the left-handed Thursdays 9:30—Midnight National Theatre of the Deaf; ; 8pm; $17 & designer; F 7pm, Warner Cable 14 & Viacom Blues Brunch Sundays y-Uti $20; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 11B, repeated M & W 2pm; Sa 7pm City Gov­ Casper -Featuring ernment Channel 26 George Stancell Cocktails • Alternative Music March 6-28 Brunch: 10:30—3:00 Heidi Sundays The Milwaukee Poetry Slam First Stage Milwaukee; Sa Su 1 & 3pm; PAC: Alternating Currents in 20th Century Music Blues: 1:30—4:30 Todd Wehr Theater; 273-7206 DJ Hal Rammel; 6:30pm; WMSE 91.7 FM every 2nd and 4th Wednesday 7118 West State Street March 6-21 February 10,11 March 24,25 of the month at 8:30pm Betrayal Arts Place Wauwatosa, WI 53213 Harold Pinter Feb 10,11 - Profile of ihe late Yolanda 414-258-5600 706 E. Lyon Street • 347-9972 Milwaukee Repertory Theater; A quirky love Marculescu; Mar 24,25 - Celebration of Irish triangle leads to betrayal; Tu 7:30pm, W1:30 Dance; W 7:30pm Th 10:30pm; Channel 10 Continuing to March 13th "Inside/Out: Still Life & Landscape1* H8H Club Works by: Cooke. Kwint, Marana, Mulhern, Plotkin. Pylant, Savers Milwauk & Sloan. lllilil Opening Reception: Sunday March 21st Lunch-M~f-1130-230 3:00 Co 5:30 p.m.

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P u o ART EXHIBITIONS Museum of Contemporary Art Now-March 14 By Tina Wasserman These self-portraits fearlessly em­ ARC Gallery Lorna Simpson: For the Sake of the Viewer brace the activity of looking. While February 6-March 21 February 2-27 There's a growing interest among Coffey stares at herself in a rnirror, we Central American: Under Siege; also Options 45: Libby Wodsworth; also William Harnoff, paintings; Marcha Rosen- Conceptual Photography; 237 E Ontario; 312/ contemporary artists in the use of the stare back at her—both witnessing feld, clay & Jennifer Mannebach, installation; 280-5161 body, as illustrated by three recent and participating in the artist's search­ opening Feb 5 5-8pm; 1040 W Huron; 312/ shows in Chicago. Depicted in self- ing confrontation with her physical 733-2787 Museum of Contemporary Photography Now-March 20 portraits, precise biological forms and self. What makes Coffey's work so Artemisia Gallery Earlie Hudnall, Jr: A Southern Spirit; also Lewis even metaphorical surrogates, the eloquent is that she asserts the right March 2-27 Toby: Portraits from the Dominican Republic; body in these shows becomes a to describe herself in a culture that Sydney Burroughs, Rose Camastro-Pritchett, also Mapping: Identities; Columbia College relentlessly describes and objectifies Art Gallery, 72 E Eleventh; 312/663-1600 symbolic place where artists can begin Jane Overton & Maria Parasson; reception women. Mar 5 5-8pm; 700 N Carpenter; 312/226- February 15-April 9 to examine such issues as culture, 7323 Mapping: Identities; reception Feb 12 5-7pm; biology and identity. 600 S Michigan; 312/663-5554 The self-portraits of Margeaux (she Art institute of Chicago The group show titled A Matter of has dropped her last name, Klein, to Now-March 28 N.AM.E Gallery South American Textiles February 2-13 Destiny at the School of the Art Insti­ disassociate herself from an abusive Now-April 30 St Valentine's Preview & Benefit Auction tute of Chicago's Gallery 2 focused father) featured at Esther Saks Fine Max Klinger, portfolio of 10 prints Auction Feb 13 8pm; $15 ($10 advance); 700 on work that portrayed the biological Art Ltd. lack Coffey's head-on, direct N Carpenter; 312/226-0671 Now-May 10 processes of decay and rejuvenation. gaze, though they are no less intense. Marc Chagall: Moscow Jewish Theater Murals March 16-May30 Objects Gallery The work featured body casts and While Coffey relies on a strong sense Rene Magritte; major retrospective Now-February 27 parts, remnants of clothing and bed­ of presence, Margeaux conveys a Michigan at Adams; 312/443-3626 Purvis Young - Paintings ding, as well as references to specific sense of self through what is absent 230 W Huron; 312/664-6622 functions of the body. from the work—her own physical Artemisia Gallery February 2-27 OZ 77 Gallery being. She uses objects and surrogate Elaine Sheer, sculpture; Phyllis MacDonald & February 14-March 18 In her piece, Dilatation, Sharon John Heintzman, paintings; reception Feb 5 5- The Religion Show; opening Feb 14 6-10pm; McConnell stretched intestinal ma­ 8pm; 700 N Carpenter; 312/266-7323 3153 N Broadway; 312/929-6200 terial paper-thin in an embroidery Block Gallery Paper Press hoop and used red thread to embroi­ Now-March 4 Now-March 4 der small biomorphic shapes resem­ Special Collections: The Photographic Order Xenophobia: Suzanne Cohan-Lange; paper bling human organs onto it Heidi from Pop to Now; Northwestern U, 1967 sculpture; 1017 W Jackson; 312/226-6300 Sheridan Rd; 708/491 -4000 Tikka's four light boxes, Screen Perimeter Gallery Memories I-IV, consisted of highly Carl Hammer Gallery February 5-Marcn 2 saturated color prints seemingly Warrington Colescott, paintings & prints & Joe Now-February 6 depicting close-up shots of exposed The Art of the Decoy; also Zirker, prints; opening reception Feb 5 5-8pm; Kid Meriz, recent acquisitions March 5-30 organs, muscle and flesh. Kiyoshi February 12-March 13 Nathan Slate Joseph, Charles Munch & John Morikowa's floor-to-ceiling portrait Mr. Imagination Beck; opening reception Mar 5 5-8pm; 750 N of a male nude was constructed from Orleans; 312/266-9473 March 19-April24 five separate panels of thick paper Visceral Landscapes: Travel Without Bounda­ ries; 200 W Superior; 312/266-8512 Phyllis Kmd Gallery coated with photographic emulsion. Now-February 9 Catherine Edelman Gallery Eddie Aming;313 WSuperior;312/642-6302 Sequestered in small side room near Now-February 13 Susanna Coffey, Self-Portrait, (red scarf), 1992 Sacred Places: Linda Connor & Richard Ross, Rockford Art Museum A Matter of Delicacy was S hanna photographs Now-March 7 linn and Christine McCrae's portraits to substitute for her body February 19-March 20 Emerging Chicago Abstraction; also installation, Biological Family. In and to create a kind of visual bio­ Michael Kenna, photography; opening Feb 19 Neil Goodman: Selected Works, 1985-1991 this small space, the artists re-created graphical narrative. 5-7pm; 300 W Superior; 312/266-2350 March 23-May 9 Young Artists & Youth Art Shows 1993 a curious natural environment A Contemporary Art Workshop Reception Mar 28 2-4pm; 711 N Main, small, circular wooden path wound like many women artists, particu­ Now-February 23 Rockford; 815/968-ARTS around a tree trunk and over a body larly women who have suffered from Tim Doud, Brent Gearan & Frank Trankina, of murky water, perrnitting the viewer childhood abuse, her work is an paintings; 542 W Grant; 312/472-4004 Randolph Street Gallery Now-February 20 to navigate the space. Among the ongoing attempt to visualize the self Ehlers Caudill Gallery Ltd Under Contract elements in the installation were as whole—even though parts of the Now-February 27 Polifcal & Economic Implications in Ariworld shelves of water-filled bottles con­ self have been eradicated through Exchanges; also Rirlcrit Tiravanija, Thai food William Christenberry, photographs & sculp­ taining berries, leaves and other found abuse. Much of her work—rendered ture & Helen Levitt, vintage photographs installation; 756 N Milwaukee; 312/666-7737 March 5-April 24 natural objects—all of which sug­ from found, often weathered, ob­ Duane Michals: Paris Stories & Other Follies School of the Art Institute of Chicago gested some sort of incubation. jects—suggests a need to dig and Opening reception Mar 5 5-7pm; 750 N Now-March 31 retrieve fragments and memories from Orleans; 312/642-8611 Living Room; anthropomorphization of the gallery; Columbus at Jackson; at Gallery II: Much of the work in the Gallery 2 the past. To stand in for herself, she Eva Cohon Gallery Now-March 26 shows contained metaphors alluding often repeats the use of several ob­ February 19-March 17 SludentShow;l 040 WHuron; 312/226-1449 to processes of disease and decay, jects, such as small vials, wheels, nails, Fritz Koethe, paintings suggesting that many younger artists frames, boxes, and found portraits of March 19-April 21 Slate of Illinois Art Gallery Barbara Kovacs, gold leaf covered sculptural Now-March 19 are producing work that deals with both Camille Claudel and an un­ forms; opening reception Mar 19 5-8pm; 301 A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by 20 Illinois the human body in relation to larger known woman named "Paula." W Superior; 312/664-3669 Artists; 100 W Randolph; 312/814-5322 social issues such as environmental Gallery Ten Stephen Solovy Fine Art toxins and the AIDS epidemic. As a In The Matter of Identity, she has Now-February 19 Now-February 20 whole, however, the shows conveyed turned a seemingly innocuous do­ Joan Becknell & Ann Stretton Marc Chagall: Arabian Nights not only a sense of the fragility and mestic artifact into a disquieting piece 620 N Michigan; 312/664-4860 March 5-april 16 vulnerability of the body, but also of evidence. A towel rack bears sev­ 7th Annual Regional Exhibition Opening reception Mar 5 5-9pm; 514 E State, Suburban Fine Arts Center something of its grace and beauty. eral towels with the image of "Paula" Rockford; 815/964-1743 March 5-26 printed on them. The rack is posi­ Annual Regional Members Exhibit; opening While the Gallery 2 show focused tioned below a cabinet containing a Mar 5 6:30-8:30pm; 777 Central; 708/432- Greenview Art Center metaphorically, and in some cases row of mysterious powder- and liq­ Now-February 20 1888 Group show; local artists; 6418 N Greenview microscopically, on the body, uid-filled vials. In A Desperate Desire EVENTS Susanna Coffey's paintings at to Know, she has placed an open Gruen Galleries Sazama Gallery approached the book within a glass box. While books March 5-7 Now-February 28 body through the more traditional may symbolize knowledge, Winter Group Show 24th Annual Winnetka Antiques Show 226 W Superior; 312/337-6262 $8 (3-day pass); Winnetka Community House, genre of self-portraiture. Margeaux makes sure the viewer 620 Lincoln Ave, Winnetka; 708/446-0537 understands that knowledge is elu­ Kokin Kaufman Gallery sive by obscuring much of the text on March 27 & 28 Her self-portraits are small, thickly February 19-March 20 the page and by keeping the book National & international glass artists; International Vintage Poster Fair painted, and feature a very direct, 210 W Superior; 312/266-1211 Exhibit & sale; $7.50 (2-day pass $12); 211 E frontal view of Coffey's face. The itself sealed under glass. In Closer Chicago; info 312263-4313 work is minimally punctuated with Examination of the Scar, Margeaux Klein Art Works variations in lighting and clothing, has simply nailed open a book with Now-February 13 PERFORMANCE ART Josh Garber: The Kohler Project such as hats, scarves and glasses. But no text inside a boxed table. A soli­ Cast iron, bronze, brass & enameled sculpture; Randolph Street Gallery Coffey depicts herself in such an tary crooked nail strapped onto these 400 M Morgan; 312243-0400 Feb 5 & 6 - Dina Morelli & Joe Silovsky unadorned manner that the self-por­ white pages attests to the story that, Feb 12 & 13 - Brendan de Vallance & Chris while unspoken, is nonetheless dug Sullivan; 8pm; $7/$5; 756 N Milwaukee; traits remain stark and painfully 312/666-7737 honest. well into her psyche. 33 m

1 JJ B Y JUDY WOODBURN

In 1937,20 years after the Russian Revolution knocked Nicholas II offhis throne for good, the British writer Kurt London tried to make sense of the new Soviet style ofart : "What is feared..." he wrote, "is the idea of Part pour Van... No art is any longer recognized which is not understood and approved by the people, and which is not in direct or indirect relationship to Socialist society. The muses must turn into Amazons."

It seems unlikely, in the frenzy of muscle-flexing that followed, that something as delicate and patently bourgeois as porcelain dinnerware would become a Soviet propaganda tool. But it made a certain kind of Bolshevik sense: paper was in relatively scarce supply, and the Imperial Porcelain Factory in Petrograd had an ample cache of blank porcelain plates. What's more, since at least the French Revolution when even the dinnerware proclaimed, liberie, e£falite,fraternite, ^porcelain and other ceramics have served in many contexts to herald changes in political leadership. (Have Bill and Hillary chosen the new White House china pattern yet?) So the Imperial Porcelain Factory was renamed the State Porcelain Factory, and many Soviet artists took up residence there, creating agitational plates, teapots and coffee cups, and spawning a tradition of porcelain propagandizing that continued unabated until the arrival of glasnost.

This tradition has always held great interest for the Russian-born Ludmilla Nikolaevna. A writer, photographer and daughter ofa n aristocratic Moscow family, she grew up surrounded by the fine antique imperial china and crystal in her family's possession. "They were patriots," she says. "They had great disdain for foreign antiques." In 1933, when she married Henry Shapiro, an American news correspondent stationed in Mos­ cow, her interests expanded to collecting agitational porcelain.

"We stole the first piece," recalls Mrs. Shapiro during an interview in the porcelain-filled dining room of the Madison ranch house where she now lives. We are sipping coffee from cobalt blue Ludmilla Nikolaevna Shapiro Photograph by Tom Bamberger Russian cups so fine you can see the shadows of your fingers through the sides. "Henry and I were eating lunch at a skating rink and the coffee spoons were chained to the water heaters on the table so they could not be stolen. The plates had inscriptions on them: "Stolen From the Moscow State Eating Enterprise."

"I said, 'Well then let's do what they invite us to do.' So we stole it. It was really quite funny."

Over the next 40 years, their collection grew to over 250 pieces. After Henry Shapiro's retirement in 1973, the couple came to the U.S. to live. Prior to his death last year, they transferred the collection to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, an arm of the Srnithsonian in New York City. It is currently being shown in an exhibit called Revolution, Life and Labor: Soviet Porcelains, 1918-1985 through April 4. (A similar, although considerably smaller, collection is currently on exhibit at the Chicago Art Institute. Soviet Propaganda Porcelain From the Collection of Craig H. and Kay A. Tuber3' features 45 items produced at the State Porcelain Factory between 1918 and 1924.)

The Cooper-Hewitt exhibit is being promoted by the museum as the west's firstcomprehensiv e showing of Russian porcelains, and indeed the collection ably demonstrates the wide variety of uses to which propaganda was put. Still in Mrs. Shapiro's possession is one of the first plates she collected: a depiction of artist Nikolai Daladugin's own bread ration card, with the Cyrillic Portrait of Lenin 1980 inscription, "He who works will eat." On its back is a painted-over insignia from the Imperial Porcelain Factory. Near it, the insignia for the State Porcelain Factory has been added. Later pieces include small statuettes depicting hearty Soviet women engaged in farm labor and, in the 1960s, a figurinewhic h heroizes Soviet cosmonauts.

The Shapiros acquired the most of the pieces prior to leaving the Soviet Union—in resale shops, from artists and relatives ofartists , from friends, and occasionally through more nefarious means.

"Once," says Mrs. Shapiro, taking a delicate bite of chocolate torte, "I took a cigarette holder from the Kremlin. Henry was always so law-abiding, and I wasn't. So I just put it in my purse. I remember another time we attended a press conference with Tito in the Adriatic; there was a silver ashtray in front of each person's place. At the end of the press conference not one of those ashtrays was left. I didn't get one. I should have acted more American."

Mrs. Shapiro recalls that many Soviet friends—many of whom suffered political 'Red Ribbon" 1919 persecution under Stalin—had trouble understanding their interest in the porcelain. "Many of our friends laughed at us," she says. "They wanted to know why we were collecting such junk. The propaganda on some of them was unbearable. But we did not consider these things art. We saw them only as propaganda. It was kitsch, but of such high quality that it could not be called kitsch. Every piece told a little bit about Russian history."

This may be why the collection has remained intact, even in the face of tremendous post-glasnost interest from collectors. "I have had many offers to purchase certain plates and figurines," says Mrs. Shapiro, "and I have always said no because I felt that this collection was a cultural, historical statement.

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