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(Note from the editor) Dear Art Muscle, In a New Yorker magazine article, "The Body Poli­ tic" (Onward and Upward with the Arts, November It will be four years since I moved to LA from 28th) dancer Bill T. Jones and author Henry Louis Milwaukee and I feel like I have lived here forever. Gates,Jr. describedMilwaukee'sAstor Hotelas "tatty,* I've gone through four Los Angeles seasons—the and two residents as "fixtures," and "wizened relics of riots, the floods, the fires and the earthquake. a glorious past."Jones, who was staying at The Astor whilehe wasin townfor aPabstTheatre performance, My neighborhood (where I live after a stint of tagged two nurses in the lobby as "on duty, keeping house-sitting from the valley to the oceans to the watch over the near-dead," then added, after survey­ hills and in between), is in the Los Felix district east ing the worn carpet and faded wallpaper—"Some of Hollywood and close to Griffith Park. Cross Bay cities just don't know when to pack itin. "As Mr. Jones View with Mitchell Street from the '60s, and then tours the country with a successful multi-media dance throw in Grant Park. (But larger, remember I'm spectacle about survival, and is himself a survivor of writing from LA and everyone here has a movie HTV, his seemingly biased comments seemed odd to us. script). Get the picture? An ethnically alive neigh­ In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, We alerted the Astor Hotel manager Lore Hauch who borhood with old men in pickup trucks selling fruit all answers are given in advance hadn't seen the article. After reading it and notifying every morning. At first I thought they were calling their public relations people, Ms. Hauch sent a letter out to Allah, but they were saying "bread"—maybe and preclude any questions. It fol­ to Mr. Jones, The American Association of Retired it's the same thing' lows, then, that the true opponent Persons and Mayor John Norquist, among others. On of totalitarian kitsch is the person January 16, The New Yorker published a portion of I work in the movie business—freelance. I shop for who asks questions: A question is her letter, and here at Art Muscle we received thisreply a living. As a decorator and art director, I rent or buy like a knife that slices through the to the incident from Mr. Jones: all those things you see when a movie, commercial stage backdrop and gives us a look or video starts—everything from the sofas on the at what has hidden behind it Dear Ms. Hauck, floor to the ashtrays, (we still smoke here, especially -Milton Kundera in the art department) to the pictures on the walls. The Unbearable Lightness of Being I was deeply saddened by your letter. My job is a cross between being a detective and a Houdini at times. Reading the director's minds, When players in a production aren't I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for assisting the production designer's vision and stay­ just acting out death but are really any comments I may have made, particularly for ing on budget, plus "getting it there yesterday." dying-as in BillT. Jones' Stlll/Here- those at the expense ofthe senior residents ofthe is it really art?~Where it all began is Astor Hotel and those which could be construed as Recently I finished working on Venus Rising, a not difficult to see. The arts bureau­ negative comments about the city of Milwaukee. movie that will be going to the Sundance Film cracy in this country, which includes Festival. We used some of my own photos and I government and private funding On this second point alone, I am dubious as to how found other images specifically for one set. Ironi­ agencies, has in recent years dem­ accurately I was quoted. I find it strange that in cally, they now reside in my apartment and I haven't onstrated a blatant bias for utilitar­ referring to your hotel, I should be speaking of decided what is imitating what—or ifit matters! I've ian art-art that justifies the "cities that don't know when to pack it in..." I also worked on a music video for Gladys Knight. We bureaucracy's existence by being vaguely remember Mr. Gates and I discussing urban had one day to convert a small brick-walled ware­ socially useful. decay and perhaps this is the (unrecorded) conver­ house into a recording studio/lounge with a club­ -Artene Croce, *A Critic At Bay,' sation to which he is referring. like atmosphere. It ended up looking great and The New Yorker, Jan 2,1995. Gladys Knight gave me chills every time she did a As far as the disparaging remarks attributed to me take. She is amazing and powerful. I've become accustomed to hear­ concerning the elderly, I, like anyone, am more ing the phrase, 'if s so bad, it's good capable of an age biased remark, innocently tossed So is there "art" in LA.? Yup, there is. The best is when dealers of outsider art talk off in the first nervous minutes of meeting a new usually at the Lannon Foundation, where their about the quality of the work they person who would ultimately be writing a very German photography show left me breathless. And represent I feel like I've created a visible profile in a publication like The New Yorker. the Skrebinski photo show opened with large scale monster. What was originally just a I don't remember describing your residents as "near triptychs that were reminiscent of Francis Bacon. I dead." I suppose that, if there were nurses there term to help collectors understand drooled. The Tim Burton photo show opened the artists I represented, has be­ attending them, I might have remarked that some Halloween weekend (it works for me) and the best people were near death. However, I revere the aged, images were of his girlfriend doing Marilyn Monroe come an excuse to suspend critical in as much as my mother, Estella Jones, is a vibrant pinups from '50s Playboy magazines. She is a muse. judgment The terminology needs 80 year-old who holds such fascination and impor­ It's not all photos out here, though. Lots of the to be eliminated and the work of tance for me that I have used her in my work and work is conceptual or has a major '60s bent to it, or self-taught artists needs to be turn to her at the most critical moments in my life. it is Warhol-like. We all recycle genres. shown side by side with other con­ temporary artists in order to judge I was most hurt to see that you forwarded your letter The Jesse Helms situation hita major note here with its real artistic merit Simply call it to the American Association of Retired Persons, more and more work dealing with politics, sexual­ art, and judge it as such." potentially sending a negative message to a most ity, homosexuality and censorship. It's now reached -Carl Hammer valued and vulnerable community. I eschew bias in a quieter level. There was lots of screaming for Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago all its forms; I always have and will continue to do awhile. Karen Finley has had two installations here so. that moved me to tears each time. The first, was the Art is greater than feminism. When AIDS Hospice/Funeral Home which she did at the you have feminism going against I have stayed at the Astor Hotel three times. I can Museum Of Contemporary Art, and earlier this year art when feminism says women's say I found it quiedy dignified and possessing she placed a ton of sand in a room that was painted rights are greater than artworks endearing charm and character. I particularly enjoy gold, so we could write the name of someone we and all works have to obey a politi­ the two paintings flanking the reception window in loved in it. She is very good at touching your heart. cal agenda, then there's something your lobby. I take no responsibility for Mr. Gate's Maybe that is why Helms was uncomfortable. really wrong with your movement impressions but only wish I was not associated with I support not the rainbow curricu­ them. Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Milwaukee. I miss you, the lum, but the world history of art- lake, the cold—yes, one does. The air is really dean -Camille Paglia On a more personal note I would like to add that and clear when it's below zero, and you can think. Author and Professor of Humanities this mass exposure I have recendy been subjected to And I remember us all making work, working hard University of the Arts, Philadelphia is challenging and burdensome at moments like and trying to work together. In fact, many things this. I am committed to candor, but hope to avoid that happen out here remind me of things that have As newspapers become more cruelty. When one's every utterance is magnified been accomplished (and accomplished well) in populist there is mounting pres­ through media, candor and cruelty become quickly Milwaukee—our installations, our alternative spaces, confused. murals, galleries and art museums. There are less sure on critics to devote less time distractions and fewer naysayers in Milwaukee. That's and energy to art forms that are I offer this letter in the spirit of respect and recon­ it. I'm a happy girl living in the land ofthe unpre­ perceived as elite or obscure, and ciliation and hope you receive it in the same manner. dictable. Think of me when you go to get some more to popular culture, regard­ custard. less of artistic merit To our collective futures, -feremy Iggers Sincerely, Much love, the best Critical Conditions Bill T. Jones Irene Adamczyk Arts Criticism in Minnesota in the Artistic Director/Choreographer Los Angeles Nineties ^L. m Captiuating...Sensual...

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Art as repellent Milwaukee took a hit recently when The New Yorker published the stunning but transparently LETTER Dahmer-esque Zombie, by Joyce Carol Oates. The magazine followed it up in its December 12th The Talk Of The Town, with more ruminations by Oates on the mind-set of serial killers. Accompanied by a sketch of Dahmer complete with grotesque skulls in the background, the article elevated FROM THE PERSONNEL biological savagery to the level of "the stuff of poetry, even if bad poetry; of art, even if repellent art." EDITOR NEWS Who says it's bad? To me, the new year begins at Armed with endorsements from Governor Thompson, Mayor Norquist, Senator Kohl, The Channel Haggerty Museum 10/36 Friends, Inc. and the Greater Milwaukee Convention & Visitor's Bureau, Cynthia Tilson, Cafe Melange during their No­ of Art vember uncorking of a fresh batch proprietor of Cynthia Tilson Galleries, has been busy producing a television pilot to counteract of Beaujolais, however, most James Scarborough Wisconsin's "bad image." Included in the advance press packet for Wisconsin Stylewzs a news release people still ascribe to the Decem­ has been appointed saying the series would be similar to The Lifestyles ofthe Rich and Famous, People Magazine and ber 31 ritual, and I too, did my curator of the Milwaukee Magazine. Pleeze, we wondered, why not include beer-makers, sausage-makers, cheese- best to join that celebration. I Haggerty Museum of makers, and yes! the 3 percent who diary-farm, as well as, the major line-up of boardrooms, even spent a few moments think­ Art. He received his penthouses, interior designers and more of Frank Iioyd Wright. It should be noted that in his ing about the coming year and bachelor's degree in endorsement letter, Mayor Norquist thoughtfully stated that "some of Wisconsin's people are well- what it may bring and what it may art history from the known and some not so well known." We called Tilson to see if she intended to incorporate cultural leave behind. This year, more than diversity, as their advance salvos seemed somewhat elitist. "We are selecting people from all walks of others, it seems change is in the air. University of Califor­ life," she said. "One of our guests is minority entrepreneur Valerie Ricks who has an electrical nia, Berkeley, and his distribution company. We're hoping to interview everyone from bridge-raisers to welders. Even One ofthe biggest developments master's degree at the garbage men. Diversity is our key." With that inquiry settled, Tilson said they're looking for is that Art Muscle is in the process Courtauld Institute of underwriters to raise a cool million. A budget of $72,336 for each ofthe 13 segments should keep of changing ownership. After Art, University of them busy chasing grants and raising funds. They launched Wiscondn Style at the Pabst Theatre on nearly eight years of publishing London, England. Mr. January 14, with an exclusive press party, entertainment and a teaser look at the pilot video. For a tab the magazine, I've decided to Scarborough's spe­ of $1.00 to enter and $49.00 to exit, the guests sipped cocktails and nibbled on hors d'oeuvres move on. The magazine's current cialty is contemporary including sausage snacks. editor, Judith Moriarty, should art with a broad be the new publisher by the time background in the An image to remember this issue hits the streets. It looks history of Western like a sure enough bet to announce Industrial designer Brook Stevens died recently, leaving behind a wide range of items which are best it at this time. Judith has been art. described as beautifully thoughtful. Ranging from a postwar Jeep station wagon to the streamlined editing the magazine for close to tractors he conceived for AUis-Chalmers, his elegance permeated wide-mouthed Holsum peanut a year with boundless energy and Minnesota butter jars, club car napkins and the Miller Brewing Company's corporate identity. His 1950 design dedication She and the staffhave excellence for Harley-Davidson, Inc. is the forerunner for the current Harley-Davidson Heritage Classic Model. big plans for the future. Anton E. Armstrong In 1985, Stevens received MIAD's first honorary doctorate for industrial design. He spent his final has been named the decade teaching at the institute which houses the Brooks Stevens Design Center a gallery featuring My own plan is to take a luxurious new music director of his contributions to transportation and the fine art of living in 20th-century America. Mr. Steven's works were about form and function. And fun. Witness the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. Mr. Stevens backseat and be a faithful reader The St. Olaf College and continuingcontributor. When leaves behind a legacy to Milwaukee and the world. I started the magazine eight years Choir in Northfield, ago, I was a graduate student in Minnesota, where he art history. My master's degree graduated in 1978. He Ko-Thi crisis was waylaid when the magazine earned his Doctor of Ko-Thi African Dance Company's annual surpluses and balanced budgets came to a crashing halt with took off and demanded all of my Musical Arts degree in the announcement that the nationally acclaimed company is $150,000 in debt. Unpaid Social time. Now that someone with an choral conducting Security and unemployment taxes account for a large portion of their debt, however touring expenses interest in publishing Art Muscle from Michigan State, and a $45,000 loss on last summer's 25th anniversary Ruumba Celebration figure heavily in the cash is available, I am back where I where he wrote his crunch. The office staff is operating bare bones. As accusations of mis-management run rampant, devoted volunteers are stepping forward with emergency fund-raising plans. Feme Caulker-Bronson, began—finishing my degree, D.M.A. thesis on hopefully in May. What then? I Ko-Thi's founding director, plans to reorganize and expand the board, thus allowing the principal don't know. My unknown future "Celebrating 75 Years committees time to focus on fund-raising. With 25 years in Milwaukee's art community, this talented is an exciting prospect. of Musical Excellence: group needs a chance to regroup and get on with what they do best—making exciting music and The Evolution of The dance. A level headed infrastructure is certainly needed if an organization is to function without Ironically, our upcoming April/ St. Olaf Choir." The tripping headlong into financial irresponsibility. Ko-Thi isn't alone in their debt load. Caulker- May issue addresses the theme of choir recently per­ Bronson commented that the famed Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre just settled a staggering birth. This wasn't planned, but it formed at Uihlein Hall debt, which made Ko-Thi's debt look reasonable. "Face it," she said, "we had a year when our taxes fits nicely with the birth of the weren't paid, so it will be a while before we are solvent. As aresult we may have to cancel some tours." in the Performing Arts In the meantime, Ko-Thi is looking for underwriters to guarantee a regular flow of cash. If you'd like magazine under its new owner Center. who welcomes your ideas, essays to help out, send your checks to: PO Box 1093, Milwaukee 53201. and art work centered around birthing. We are also having an Ohio gets Art Muscle Readers' Party on Gittleman Potential WHC cuts March 29, from 5 to 9 p.m. at Neal Gittleman, During a recent television airing of The 700 Club, evangelist Pat Robertson commented to his co- Saturday's on South 5th Street in Associate Conductor of host, a former Milwaukee beauty queen turned B orn Again, that there would be no lobbying to diffuse Walker's Point. The $3 door feeis the Milwaukee Sym­ funding cuts for the NEA or the NEH. "They are out the door, they're dead," he said, smiling while your ticket to a soul food buffet phony Orchestra, has the cameras rolled. Well, not yet and not quite. A call to the Wisconsin Humanities Council in and music by Milwaukee's Ma­ been named Music Madison and a chat with their development and government relations director, Christie Truly, netted sonic Wonders. Please drop in to us this fax: "The NEH and by extension The Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) are facing the Director of the Dayton possibility of major funding cuts by the 104th Congress over the next several months. If NEH is cut say hello to Judith and her dedi­ Philharmonic. He will cated staff. Art Muscle is alive, or abolished, our state council would lose up to 80 percent of its funding and most of its ability to well, and enthusiastic. maintain his Milwau­ enrich the civic and cultural lives ofWisconsin's citizens." Ms. Truly noted that unlike the NEA, "the kee residence and Council does not fund the works of individual artists and writers; rather it funds humanities projects These past years with the maga­ continue his newly such as reading/discussion series and programs in art history and criticism." •* Additionally, WHC zine have been a delight. Thanks expanded role as a key is attempting to improve their visibility in Milwaukee by attracting proposals from groups that would to all our advertisers for your on­ member ofthe MSO not necessarily have thought of themselves as potential applicants. They took an important step last going support. Newt may think artistic staff. year when they presented a Milwaukee workshop for first-time applicants, a step which resulted in the arts aren't vital, but I'm happy awards to seven area organizations, including the Milwaukee Turner Foundation, the International Institute ofWisconsin, and the Milwaukee Public Museum. The largest grant ofjus t over $8,000 was Wisconsin has Art Muscle to dis­ Internos Gallery prove that! awarded to the public museum who will fund two teacher institutes focusing on the culture and Mama Pfeiffer is the history ofWisconsin Indian tribes. —Debra Brehmer new assistant curator at Internos Gallery on ' •.>;<'f.>:-'" . - ' ' '. Brady Street. Ms. The eye of truth Pfeiffer graduated Michelle Kloehn, a junior majoring in photography at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, recently from Alverno recently helped youngsters at the Hope House on South Second Street, take and develop photo­ College with adegree graphs about their lives as homeless children. The results, more than 100 photos comprise the traveling show, Looking at Ourselves: Visions of Homeless Children. It will make its final stop February ; in fine arts, and has ''•-'.V; :-.•>:•: 13-March 11 at The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 273 E. 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Constructive funding Futures project is one fine vote Cartoonist The Oscar J. Boldt Construction of confidence for the Gen-Xers. VISUAL ARTS wins contest Company of Appleton, Wiscon­ Chosen by an interdisciplinary AIDS auction sin has offered a $ 10,000 Chal­ panel of artists, the talented ten Artists interested in donating work for the lenge Grant to the Wisconsin all live in Milwaukee County and Chris Headrick, a copywriter with fourth Artfor AIDS auction on June 25, please the Milwaukee advertising firm of Humanities Council to raise gen­ many received their training lo­ Eichenbaum, Hemke & Associates, eral operating funds for WHC. cally. And that's good for this call 273-1991. has won the 1994 Hanna-Barbera Boldt President Warren Parsons city. The Art Futures golden Storyboard contest. The 26 year old said, "We believe this grant will envelope contained the names Art Institute of Chicago Brookfield resident recently returned spur others to consider the Hu­ of: Paul Druecke, Alissa Eells, Intensive institutes and serninars are being from California where he collected manities Council as a recipient Joseph Cahagan, Jean Roberts offered this summer to qualified undergradu­ $5,000 and a chance to convert his of community building dollars." Guequierre, Phillip Johnson, ate, post-baccalaureate and graduate students storyboards into an animated film Sarah Moore, Julie Niedziejko, from the School, as well as students-at-large. short. In a Milwaukee Journal feature Milwaukee Arts Board Chris Niver, ParishaPakroo.and This summer's programs will deal with issues prior to the trip, Headrick was quoted Project Grants applications for John Shea. They made it through surrounding public/private art and art mak­ 1995 are now available. City of the sifting process of work as saying, "To be interested in anima­ ing. Deadline: April 1. Info: Rae Ulrich, Divi­ tion in Milwaukee is to be interested Milwaukee non-profit arts organi­ samples submitted by 136 ap­ sion of Continuing Studies and Special Pro­ in the Eskimo culture in the Baha­ zations and neighborhood-based plicants, and lived to party it up mas." community groups in existence big time during a December bash grams, 312/899-5139. Ifyou' d prefer a Sum­ for at least two years are eligible. at the Milwaukee Art Museum, mer in Saugatuck, Michigan, call the same Deadline: March 6. Info: Milwau­ where at least one of the recipi­ department for info and a catalogue on Ox- Nettlesome kee Arts Board, 286-5796. ents, Milwaukee Public School's Bow. Registration begins April 3. Info: 312/ piano teacher Julie Niedziejko, 899-5130. no more Grandmother strutted her stuff with her band, More than one local dance company Individual grants (from $500- True Heart Susie. New east side has been plagued recently by com­ $5,000) are available to encour­ plaints from nearby neighbors that age the creativity of women over Rollin' with Rollins The sixth annual Chicago New East Side Art­ they are "making too much noise," fifty-four years of age. Propos­ The Artist Series at the Pabst works juried show of fine art and fine crafts is so it was a great relief to Milwaukee als are reviewed twice a year was among a select group of seeking entries. Application deadline for juried Dance Theatre (MDT) when they and deadlines are always March midwesterners chosen to re­ slides is April 1. Info: Chicago's New East Side moved to 342 North Water Street. 21 and September 21. Info: ceive a 1994-95 Arts Midwest ArtWorks, 200 North Michigan Ave., Suite Now they're in a building which Thanks Be to Grandmother Jazz Satellite Touring Fund grant. 3005Chicago,IL60601,312/55l-9290.Fax: houses Ko-Thi Dance Company, Winifred Foundation, PO Box This award will support the 312/541-1271. Next Act Theatre, and other arts 1449,Wainscott,NY 119975. March 4 performance of saxo­ groups. Not only does the move relieve phonist Sonny Rollins at the Present Music benefit MDT of the burden of complaints City of Milwaukee grant Pabst. The Jazz Satellite Touring about noise pollution, it provided them Barbara Leigh ofthe Milwaukee Fund is a program of Arts Mid­ Artists working in all media who are interested with a convenient on-the-bus-line lo­ PublicTheatre is currently work­ west in conjunction with the Lila in donating work for a benefit for Present cation, and a state of the art wooden ing on ADA, an original multi­ Wallace-Reader's Digest National Music, may call 271-0711. March deadline. sprung floor. All of this gives MDT's media work about diversity in Jazz Network. artistic director, Isabelle Kralj some­ the work place and disability Bulgarian belly laugh thing to make noise about. issues. Recently, the theatre re­ Application deadlines The Twelfth International Biennial ofHumour ceived a grant from the City of For information and application and Satire in theArts—Gabrovo'95, is seeking Milwaukee to tour the piece, books with guidelines and forms artists in fine arts, photography and literature. Elongated, scaly free to the public, at a number of on the following programs con­ sites this spring and summer. tact: Arts Midwest, 528 Hennepin Open to all irrespective of nationality and age. and lidless Ave., Suite 310, Minneapolis, MN Deadline: March 1. Info: House of Humour Artist Jeff Koons and his estranged Woodlands 55403,612/341-0755. and Satire, PO Box 104,5300 Gabrovo, Bul­ wife, Ilona Staller (also known as The Elizabeth^. Brinn Founda­ garia. Tel. x359(66)27220. Telex 67413. Fax porn star La Cicciolina), are fighting tion is a local group which has March 15:Performing Arts Tour­ x359(66)26989. for custody of their two-year old. special interests in supporting ing Fund. Midwest presenters During a public trial in New York, services for inner city children. can apply for artist fee support Texas stamps three tapes were aired which showed Recently they awarded a to present music, theater and The Bush Bam Art Center's postage stampsheet Ilona having sex with three men at $25,000 grant to Woodlands opera companies based within exhibition is seeking entries. Deadline: April. once (to the beat of reggae), having School on south 5th street. The a nine-state region, but outside sex with a fat man in a field, and elementary school, which is in­ the presenter's home state. Info: John Held, Jr., 1903 McMillan Ave., getting it on with a large black snake dependent and non-sectarian, Dallas, TX 75206. who participated tail first. Koons ex­ will use the funds for operating March 31: Minority Arts Admin­ plained to the judge that La Cicciolina costs. In a separate matching istration Fellowships. Mid-career Portland possibles would "do anything to dismantle cul­ grant, the Foundation pledged arts administrators of color can Fiber artists needed for Designed to Wear tural mores." Has it only been three $1 for every $2 the school re­ apply for Fellowships which exhibition. Two slides of up to 3 garments. years since radical artist Koons and ceives in other donations this support residencies with estab­ Deadline: March 3. Also artists needed for his horny honey recorded their own year. Woodlands is celebrating lished Midwestand National arts month-long solo exhibitions in March & July explicit adventures in a mixed media its 40 th year. organizations. installation entitled MadeinHeaven? at the Hoffman Gallery. Send slides and writ­ ten proposal to: Kate Bonansinga, Oregon One wonders what happened to the Wisconsin Arts Board May 15: Arts Midwest/NEA '95- rapacious reptile. The Haggerty Museum has been 96 Regional Visual Artist Fel­ School of Arts & Crafts, 8245 SWBarnes Rd., awarded two grants from the lowships. Midwest visual artists Portland, OR 97225, 593/297-5544. Wisconsin Arts Board. A grant of working in sculpture, photogra­ Sampson revived $5,000 will be used to present phy, or crafts can apply for one Gallery Ten Rodin: Sculpture from the B. of 30, non-project based, $ 5,000 National juried show with a landscape theme. by artists Gerald Cantor Collection (open­ Fellowships. Note: In 1996-97, All media. Slides due May 26. For prospectus: If you remember him, you probably ing March 1 5), and $2,300 will Fellowships will be awarded for SASE: Gallery Ten, 514 East State Street, loved him. He's making a comeback be used in support of a photo painting and works-on-paper. Rockford, IL 61104. at the Milwaukee Public Museum as exhibition, Vision Quest: Men, part ofthe planned "Sense of Won­ Women and Sacred Sites of the Ongoing: Through the Artworks der" show. Sampson's skeleton, cur­ Sioux Nation. Fund, Midwestand National non­ North Dakota national rently stored in a cooler at the mu­ profit exhibition sites can apply Seeking visual artists for 19th Biennial Na­ seum, will be cleaned and connected The future is now for support to purchase and tional Juried Art Exhibition. Deadline: April4- using wire and steel. Sculptor and Ten artists will have extra jingle exhibit Fellowshipartists'work, 26. Info: Tammy Erdmann, 2nd Crossing museum taxidermist, Wendy in their jeans, thanks to the Art or feature the grantees in edu­ Gallery, Valley City, ND, 701/845-2690. Christensen-Senk, said his skin will Futures fellowship program, cational activities. Through the not be part of the exhibit because it which awarded each of them Jazz Satellite Touring Fund, Mid­ On the square was damaged as the result of being in $2,500. While it's doubtful the west jazz presenters can apply Arts and crafts. Deadline: February 27. Info: her Waukesha freezer forthre e years. amount will really influence for awards on afirst-come, first- Madison Art Center Museum, 211 State St., The big fellow was only 32 when he Milwaukee's finest young talent served basis to contract touring keeled over at the Milwaukee County to stay in Milwaukee, thus pre­ jazz artists already booked by Madison, WI 53703,608/257-0158. Zoo. He'll be resurrected in 1996. venting a "talent drain," the Art at least one other Network site.

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SASE: Society for Contem­ make it clear Avenue and porary Photography, PO Box 32284, Kansas please that landed in the Watercolor midwest City, MO 64171. it's the 3ITCH! gal I e ry's Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin is magazine storefront seeldngtiansparentwatercolorsfbrannual exhibi­ Jewish museum you're di­ windows, tion. Deadline: April 1. SASE: Nancy Fortunato, Seeking photographic essays for rotating ex­ aling up... taking both MWS, 249 Marion St., Palatine, IL 60067. hibit. Jewish themes required. Send slides to: The biggest ofthemoutat Magnes Museum, 2911 Russell St., Berkeley, bald eagle in 3 am. Kenosha Sculpture in Iowa CA 94705. the city is nest­ artist Phil Competition for Sculpture on Second exhibi­ ing on the backside of Schultz's sandstone tion. Deadline: March 31. Prospectus: Sculp­ Juried the newly refurbished sculpture Ohio Pastoral ture on Second, Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Seeking entries for National Exposure III, a Esperanza Unida building in picked up a few black tire Arts Council, PO Box 74860, Cedar Rapids, national juried photography show. Deadline: Walker's Point. Muralist marks, but was otherwise un­ IA 52407. April 10. SASE: Arc Gallery, 1040W.Huron, Reynaldo Hernandez de­ damaged. The artist remarked Chicago, Illinois, 60622. signed and painted the feath­ that the tire marks add char­ acter to the work...Bay View Arc regional ered wonder which was dedi­ has a new art gallery appro­ Juried exhibition for artists residing in Wiscon­ cated in December. To say that the avian is highly visible priately named the Bay View sin, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michi­ from all points is an under­ Gallery opening on Delaware gan, Minnesota and Missouri. Deadline: May PRINTS statement. With other eagle street (the first show is in 21. Prospectus SASE: Arc Regional, Arc Gal­ Ohio exhibition murals in the area, is Walker's March) just north of the Bay lery, 1040 W. Huron, Chicago, IL 60622. Hand pulled prints and computer generated Point fast becoming Eagle View Barber shop. The barber prints only. Deadline: February 11. SASE: Point?...Long time Milwau­ shop was was the site of the American Institute of Architects Ottawa Gallery, 6625 Maplewood St., kee entrepreneur John filming of a recent television Seeking artists whose themes are related to Sylvannia, OH 43560,419/882-2958. Gardner, has purchased the spot for Potowatomi architecture. Contact: Ron Baum,4131 Wood­ old Northern Light building Bingo. You know, the one fea­ land Park Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98103, Cooperative and is converting that space turing two old ladies in mile- 206/632-7332. Seeking original prints for independent interna­ to offices with (perhaps) a high hair complete with plas­ tional print cooperative. Ongoing. SASE: Prints new restaurant in the building tic rollers. Bay View, known Juried for Peace, 607 John St., Decorah, IA 52101. which has a view of the Mil­ as Milwaukee's Other East Seeking two and three dimensional artworks waukee river. This would be a Side, also has a new artist's which make use of beads and embellishment. nice tie-in with burgeoning association in place. They opened with a membership Prospectus, SASE: Suburban Fine Arts Center, Brady street. We hope he showatthe famed White House 777 Central, Highland Park, IL 60035,708/ THEATER saved the outstanding North­ ern Light sign. His project Inn on KK ...An anonymous 432-1888. Auditions will open this spring...With donor sent a $5,000 check Playwrights Studio Theater will hold audi­ Newt The Mouth firmly in via The Fund For Poetry in Walker's Point tions for its Fourth Annual Festival of ten place as Speaker of the House New York City to Woodland WPCA is accepting slides for Spirituality minute plays. Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and the possibility of political Pattern Book Center, Show. SASE: Walker's Point Center for the fourth floor, February4. Info: Michael Neville conservatism taking over along with a note which read, Arts, 911W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI 271-6653 (strange, his mother's re­ "Happy to contribute to your 54204. cent televised comments poetry reading series." The The Boulevard Ensemble auditions will be about "the bitch" Mrs. Clinton five mysterious big ones will March 5,6, and 10th. They are seeking thes- sounded like freedom of ex­ be used to supplement the pians ofal l ages and ranges. Please prepare two pression) it looks like we're center's Spring reading se­ DANCE modern monologues with two minute total. in for a year of words. While ries...And checks of a differ­ Operations director Auditions by appointment only. Info: Mark knee-jerk liberals are rush­ ent sort were handed to each Ko-Thi Dance Company is seeking an Opera­ Bucher, 672-6019. ing to condemn the Newt as of the Art Futures recipi­ tions Director with a strong background in the "new McCarthy," and ents at their December MAM accounting and grant writing skills. Must also scary signals are being fete. The excited artists clutched their checks which be able to function as an office administrator. beamed that NEA and NEH fund­ were for much more than they Send resume to: Ed Butler, Vice-Chairman of ing may be dropped en­ GENERIC had anticipated! As dreams of Operations, Ko-Thi Dance Company, PO Box tirely, it's a sure bet that AhHaa when the political dust settles, rushing to the bank with their 1093, Milwaukee 53201. Wisconsin artist Truman Lowe, will lead a it will settle in the middle. unexpected bonanzas danced workshop titled Into the Woods, July 21-23 Artists will continue to pee through their heads, photog­ in Telluride, Colorado. Scholarships and work in sandpiles and call it art, rapher/educator Dick Blau FILMS. VI DEO study are available. Contact: Ah Haa School, butmay have less grantmoney dashed about reclaiming the PO Box 1590, Telluride, CO 81435, 303/ to snag on to. Public radio checks from each celebrant Wisconsin 728-3886. also risks having its plug and apologizing that someone Musicians and directors needed to submit pulled. Milwaukee Public Tele­ at Art Futures had erred in issuing them. The corrected work for future episodes of Do The Video. Walker's Point vision dropped its weekly arts series, Arfs Place, and is checks were mailed the next Video or film format with biographical infor­ Local artists who perform as dancers, thespi- wondering what the future week...Artist Laurie mation. Do The Video, PO Box 08255, Mil­ ans, or comedians, please send a proposal waukee 53208. holds for that area...Other including fees, artist's statement, past reviews devil doings were about when Bembeneck's black Jag was and work samples SASE: Kat Hendrickson, parked in front of Martini's Alternative not one, but two, local places, 911W. National Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53204. The House of Peace and classy new bar on 7th Street No mainstreamers please. Experimental narra- recently. Ms. Bembeneck was tivesand documentaries. Contact: RodDaron, South Shore Gallery & Consignments Framing had motorized ve­ inside enjoying Sinatra tunes Alternative Filmworks, DeptFV, 259 Oakwood Hospital gift shop is seeking works of local hicles crash into their inte­ while directing operations for Ave., State College, PA 16803. and national artists and craftspeople. Info: rior spaces. At the Peace place the installation of her newest Rogers Memorial Hospital, Oconomowoc, a truck sailed through the paintings. A former cop and now owner of the snug empo­ Animation WI, 767-4411. building and into an area near New television program focusing on innova­ rium was helping out... Clement Meadmore Anonymous 4 The Photographs of Jim Brozek David Bamett Gallery St Joseph's Convent Chapel Silver Paper Gallery November 12-December 24 December 19 January 20-February 25

The couple of hours spent as the sole visitor at the David People who lament that Christmas is too secularized and Photographer Jim Brozek personally greeted visitors at Bamett Gallery in the late autumn afforded me uninter­ materialistic should have heard this Christmas concert. the opening of his retrospective on January 20 at Silver rupted observation of and reflection about the Clement A true spiritual experience, It received a well-deserved Paper Gallery. As friends old and new milled about Meadmore sculpture exhibit I wanted my encounter to standing ovation from the 600 who attended the sold- eating Wisconsin cheese and asking the amiable Brozek be 'pure,' and fearing the influence of a sympathetic out event about his 35mm black and white prints, he mopped his author, I didn't thumb through a nearby tome of a brow (having, with gallery owner Todd Groskopf, barely Meadmore biography. I needn't have been so up-the- To mark the holiday, Early Music Now brought to town finished placing the labels before people came stream­ ass about it, as I quickly realized I'd seen at least two of Anonymous 4, a New York based quartet of women. Ruth ing in), and chatted about the exhibit the works at the Bradley Sculpture Garden a few sum­ Cunningham, Marsha Genesky, Susan Heliauer and mers ago. My GodI Those things were massive indeed. Johanna Rose specialize in vocal music of the Middle "Each of these pieces represents about two decades of my life Ages and their group's name designates an unknown asaworker-inashipyard,drivinga school bus, working with Meadmore is one of our era's most revered sculptors, 13th century author of a treatise on music. Their pro­ the homeless, participating In life on a western ranch, though his name reminded me of a nickname for Blake gram was based on the contents of their Harmonia observing social activism, and generally observing, through that Wordsworth could have come up with, had he been Mundl album "On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols and the lens, the diversity of life." I asked him specifically about so clever. My bringing up the 'naming of things* isn't Motets.' Unfamiliar to most and therefore un-cliched, it the series of four photographs titled, Pro Lifers. Was K his totally off-the-wall, since Meadmore had bothered to was Christmas music in the manner of a worship service, statement In support of their movement? title all of his pieces, perhaps in contradistinction to, say, beginning when the women marched into the chapel From Hannibal To Saint Augustine David Smith, whose shiny, boxy conglomerations are singing a Gregorian chant For the next uninterrupted rr "Well, what is life without choice? It's nothing," he Milwaukee Art Museum designated as "Form #3, #4,*...and so forth. hour and a half they sang carols, motets and songs while | smiled, affirming what I had suspected was a basic Pro alternating a spoken retelling of a 14th-century Christ­ | Choice stance. December 2-February 12 Most of his pieces were bronze shapes on simple white mas story. Chanting, they concluded their program with or black stands. Some (about a yard tall) were molded a recessional. A portrait of Milwaukee'sfamouswhistle-blower,Michael Initially, the exhibit of ancient art of North Africa which into shapes manifestingStravinsky-Iike frozen moments McGee, arrayed In African-American garb with two has traveled here from the Musee du Louvre seemed of music. A few writhed, others reclined, each with a Medieval music, even the single-line chant is certainly whistles draped around his neck, looked out on the stark, orderly and sterite-too perfect, like the watch seamless smoothness remarkable in treating heavy not "primitive." It is intricate and complex, and these FORGET THERE'S A WORLD (mostly) white crowd from the north wall ofthe gallery. displays in Swiss stores, or my German mother's spar­ metals. Smaller pieces, black figures of less than performers sang without instrumental accompaniment, Theatre X Late Night Series Man With Bird, a kind-faced elderly citizen with his white kling andsauberfridge door handles. It should be noted, sesquipedalian height were scale models of sister fig­ denying themselves any external assistance. They met hair blowing in the wind, gazed out of its portrait frame however, the Items are Installed with ample breathing ures around the world. One of these, Sophisticated Lady, all of the challenges to perfection and made doing so December 9-10 from the west wall. Nearby, placed as If to contrast room and their message Is aesthetically generous. All in was a black cylinder torso bearing abbreviated cone look easy, though at times they sounded almost too kindliness with terrorism, another portrait, Nazi Youth, all, it was an Intriguing piecing together ofthe history of shapes which served as hips. Apparently jazz buff uniformly lofty and monochromatic. Afterall, the Middle At precisely 11 p.m. on December 9th and 10th, recorded a young blonde man garbed In a swastika- ancient Carthage. Meadmore thinks that's all ft takes to be a sophisticated Ages weren't "the age of faith* all of the time, even Milwaukee performer/writer Dan Hanrahan (abetted emblazoned uniform while standing sentinel at the lady, and he was likely paying tribute to the standard during religious celebrations. Anonymous 4 could have by director Dave O'Meara) unleashed a torrent of Police Administration Building during a mid'70s protest Moon worshippers would die for one of those simple song. This literary approach to naming sculptures can be benefited from a bounder repertoire and an occasional words and images that washed over the audiences like In another piece, a beaming black woman in a dazzling and austere, triangular-peaked limestone stele carved interpreted as humorous, merely funny, or asinine. use of an Instrument or two, if only for contrast. But even a pure and cleansing flood. As part of Theatre X's Late dress dances in joyous abandon with a white man. The with the image of the Phoenician mother-goddess Tanit, without that contrast, they held the audlencJMn rapt Night Series, Forget There's A who, grasping a caduseus staff in one hand and a Another work, Tmckin' was a take-off on a 70s jive cat attention, enough that no one applauded between World abounded with crescent moon in the other, rides the dolphin of immor­ guy walking on bellbottomed legs at an uncool angle. selections and broke the mood. Hanrahan's flowing energy tality into the underworld. Ironically, this wondrous One title that didn't hurt was a beauty-Med/tof/on, flights, moreor less in concert and over the Robert Burns and the wit and Intelligence of symbology was used on the gravemarkers of sacrificial thought up for a work produced between 1974 and sculpture on Knapp, Franklin and Prospect, described Gratia plena toEarl y Music Now. It was a superb concert. both the performer and direc­ victims-an irony missed if you failed to read the text. 1976. In it, Meadmore tendered a senseless slab into a lines enclosing space in the sky. It would have delighted tor. While it teased and se­ thought lifting itself up to the stars. As his work pro­ any one who appreciates Meadmore. -Leon Cohen verely tested the audience to The struggle between Paganism and Christianity occured gressed in the 80s, more twists and more sophisticated (Leon Cohen has a master's degree in music history the brink of comprehension, in the context of multi-cultural exchange. The trade passages evoked stretches of music, or a grappling with -Tim Kloss and literature from Northwestern University.) those who maintained their between Europeans, West Asians and North Africans complications. (Tim Kloss is a Milwaukee poet) balance into the unpredictable Influenced ancient Cathaginlan industry, and the exhibit found rewards at Journey's certainly reflects this cultural transference. Without the I could have dismissed the entire lot as so many bronze end. texts, for example, I might have mistaken the Punic pretzels, had my eye been impatient...that would have Protome (with its "nemes-llke' headcloth) for an Egyp­ been an error, as the artist's works are seamless World consisted of approxi­ tian import. Or interpreted the sculpture of the god hamessings of emotions as valid as folk songs. Walking mately a dozen monologues Serapis, with his deeply carved hair and classic features, home that night I saw four blackbirds. Their respective and songs that were supported as Greek in origin. by Nicholas Frank's musical Gallery owner Carl Hammer is launching his accompaniment which in­ The Votive Head of a Bull is Co-Mix Art: Fine-Tooning Pop 1995 season with this show of fine art by cluded the clever use of type­ interesting tor its wide-range Carl Hammer Gallery contemporary artists, all of whom are also writers as percussive instru­ of influences ratherthan the comic illustrators. Look for the likes of Art ments. The choreographed specifics of one. Brought to Chicago Spiegelman, Charles Bums, David Sandlin, Mark movement of Frank and North Africa by the December 6-February 11 Beyer, Don Colley, GeorgeAnne Deen, Gary Hanrahan,directed the tatter's Phoenicians to represent Panter and Chris Ware. The gallery at 200 50 minute linguistic cruise. At their god Baal Hammon, it West Superior Street will display their works in times, the background action synthesized quite nicely with 'Its neither high nor low art, but humor-filled, the main exhibition space, as well as more threatened to divertmore than the indigenous Berber deity thought provoking art made more by a fangarde affordable comic strips, books and prints by illuminate-though illumina­ and patron of forest and than by a vanguard," says artist David Sandlin, the artists in the back room until February 11. tion may not have been a crops. Influenced later by who is co-curating this Chicago show with artist Last month, The New York Times Magazine desired end. The lack of an the pre-ltalian god Jupiter, Jerry Smith. Call it repop, sub-pop, pulp-pop, printed a cartoon illustration by the show's co- overriding cohesion between the bull then was given a whatever it's labeled, the new pop movement is curatorSandlin, which accompanied an article their movements made the face-lift by the Hellenic more omnipresent in today's multimedia and on near-death experiences. The New Yorker is question of illumination prob­ Kronos, and ultimately fused more in tune with fine art than ever before. The using more and more cartoonists and other lematical. It must be said, how­ its identity with Saturn of cartoons of the '90s are crafted in a fine arts print and electronic media are featuring their ever, that the pieces them­ the Roman cult AH of which tradttion,yet also act as vehicles for socialchange. illustrations as well. For exhibit information selves retained a wonderfully made North Africa recep­ While Pop Art may be in its dotage, its bastard children live and thrive. call: 312/266-8512. wacky sense of unity. They tive to Roman culture. You were wickedly humorous and can find this third century the action in the witty pan­ AD. artifact at the entrance orama, while it may not have to the Lubar galleries where fully diagramed the meaning it outlines the shifting reli­ of the pieces (or of life), did gious, cultural and political supply amusing directorial framework of the exhibit counterbalance. which continues until Feb­ ruary 12. Hanrahan weaves stories and songs around monologues Happily, what at first which speak of impossible seemed a stiff arrangement feats and stories. CIA agents run amok, yaks and yetls of artifacts, becomes, when duo, through the experience ofthe musical moment and populate his adventures and the rich tapestry of his the magic of Brozek's eye, erase any vestiges of the you walk through and take surrealistic imagery and driving poetic energies melds the time to study It, a re political. Of all the photographs, this one seemed to hip cynicism with an aware sense of humor. While the Identify the human spirit at Its best freshing and Informative writing suggests a cacophony of intelligence which visitation from antiquity. might drown the Inattentive or lazy reader, the perfor­ Milwaukee is the last stop In a smaller room, adjacent to Brozek's outstanding mance, thanks to the electric Hanrahan, yielded a show, the photogravures of Edward S. Curtis held court for these treasures of gold, bursting vitality. Being content to ride the waves of his stone and mosaic. Poignant and elegant, they were a bonus to a fine bountiful writing gave the audience the best chance for gallery night evening, an evening when a lot of people a successful Journey. The evening was many things, tramp about looking at a lot of unresolved images. For -Kai Wedel but it was never dull. (Kai Wedel lives north of those of us who negotiated the Icy roads and rutted the Vernon Marsh and is walkways, the stop at Silver Paper Gallery was worth it learning to play the —Mark Bucher IMark Bucher Is an actor and Director of The Boulevard accordion.) -Judith Ann Moriarty Ensemble.) {Judith Ann Moriarty Is an editor at Art Muscle.) 12 Art Muscle 13 latin american women artists SHAW FESTIVAL February 18 - March 5 Reversals and ,*•• - > Variations on the New Woman

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THE MUSIC WE PLAY WOULD MAKE THE AVERAGE WEASEL EXPLODE. 1881 La Chat Noir cabaret opens in Montmartre, Paris, with artists, poets and musicians giving mixed-media performances. It inspires a wave of "cafe-mania" Carpe in Europe. Diem!

TIME HAD BEEN A NOURISHING STREAM, A

VERITABLE SEA, FOR THOSE YOUNG MEN.

LIKE FISH THEY'D SWUM IN IT WITHOUT

QUESTIONING IT—WITHOUT KNOWING IT

WAS THE ELEMENT THAT SUSTAINED THEM

AND GAVE THEM LIFE. AND THEN IT HAD

UNACCOUNTABLY WITHDRAWN AND LEFT

THEM EXPOSED...FOREVER YOUTHFUL IN

THOSE OLD PHOTOGRAPHS, IN THEIR OUT­ 1911 The performance Impressions d'Afrique includes the Earth­ DATED COSTUMES; LONG SINCE AGED, worm Zither Player in which a trained earthworm's drops of DEAD, DISPOSED OF. mercury-like perspiration slide down the string of an instru­ ment to produce music. The —MARTA, A LIFE, JOYCE CAROL OATES, 1986 event is highly regarded by Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia.

ART AS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR CENTURIES; ONLY THE TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS OF THE TRADE ARE "NEW." IN ITS EARLIEST EXPRESSIONS IT SERVED AS MAGIC RITUAL FOR EARLY GREEKS PARADING IN DIONYSIAN SATYR COSTUMES COMPLETE WITH GOAT TAILS AND LARGE RED-LEATHER PHALLUSES. PERFORMING IN THE BUFF ISN'T NEW EITHER. THE ART OF MIME, PERFECTED BY EPICUREAN ROMANS BE­ TWEEN 30 B.C. AND 96 A.D. FREQUENTLY CALLED FOR FEMALE ACTORS TO TAKE IT OFF DURING PERFORMANCES. As HISTORY ROLLED FORWARD AND FREE EXPRESSION UNFURLED EVER FREER, THE PURITANS STOMPED THEIR PROPER FEET AND DEEMED THE ELIZABETHAN THEATER 1915 TO BE GROSS AND UNFORGIVABLE. THE FINAL Thecurtain risesonCanniglio's STRAW FOR THE PRE-HELMSIAN PURITANS WAS Detonazione : it is night, the WHEN A DARING FRENCH ACTRESS PLAYED A MALE road is deserted, a shot is fired. ROLE IN A PLAY AT THE BLACKFRIARS. SHE WAS The curtain fails. PELTED WITH APPLES AND ROTTEN EGGS. IN 16TH CENTURY GERMANY A CIRCUS PERFORMER EARNED HIS FAME BY EATING 30 EGGS, A POUND OF CHEESE AND A LARGE LOAF OF BREAD. AFTER WHICH HE FELL DEAD.

HERE ARE SOME HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PERFORMANCE ART WORLD. THEY ARE EX­ 1918 CERPTED FROM OUTSIDE THE FRAME, PERFOR­ Due to constant harassment MANCE AND THE OBfECT, CLEVELAND CENTER and arrests for radicalism, the FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, 1994. Ferrer Center and the Modern School are forced toclose down their New York operations.

16 Art Muscle I have got to kill time solo, but later developed it to include additional 1921 Splash from his belly to his chin performers. One character, "Yesterday Gone," rep­ Images of the renowned Scoop his blood resents the past and moves very slowly as he says, "mother of Dada, "the Baroness Take it in "How I look depends on how you see me. Why is Elsavon Freytag-Loringhoven, To learn what will become of me everyone looking at me?" The Future is expressed by appear in New York Dada. Em­ Blood on my hands "Will Happen," a robot who moves quickly and bodying the spirit of Dada, she Time on my hands wears a silver-lame cape, a mask and a tall hat shellacs her shaven skull and (excerpt from Killing Time, Joseph Rabensdorf) embellished with clocks. Between these two timely colors it vermillion. She is also characters stands Rabensdorf as "Mr. Now," pro­ seen wearing a black dress with It's nighttime at Cafe Melange and 26 year old Joseph claiming "It's now, it's now that matters." a bustle on which an electric Rabensdorf stands in the spotlight, a light which tail light rests. She is repeat­ attracts the nocturnal. With one arm held straight up His subject matter is sometimes"overpowering," edly arrested for her brazen and the other perpendicular to it, and with both hands Rabensdorf says. At one point he even developed a gestures. grasping long knives, Rabensdorf transforms into a hostility toward it. "I love life. I don't want to grow human time piece, loudly ticking off the seconds. old and ugly. Luckily I'm an optimist, so the future looks good. My motto is carpe diem—seize the day. Curiously, he often performs with his eyes closed, The past was filled with bitterness, but in working on pretending he's a superhero, a conjuror of images to Time, I redirected that past and was able to shape my be beamed to the audience via a ray blast from his future. It's clear that the secret to life is blending all forehead. He's fascinated with superheroes he says. three time zones." "They make me cry, because they solve all of their problems and get to fly." Currently he's enamored Itwasduringa college workshop at UW- Whitewater with Jean Gray, a comic-book telepathic with kinetic that Rabensdorf first gave consideration to perfor­ powers. mance as "art." His inspiration was a classmate inflicted with Tourette's Syndrome, a medical con­ Throughout much of 1994 Rabensdorf worked on his dition that triggers the blurting out of words and Time theme, writing his pieces aloud and memorizing (often) obscenities. "Everyone knew who she was them. He prefers being aware ofthe sound of his work because you could always hear her. I wrote down the and he uses this method to turn these sounds into phrases; myfavorites were "penis sludge" and "moose performance pieces. He assumed that most people balls." Occasionally she'd blurt, "I'm a virgin!" That 1936 would interpret the title Killing Time as "doing noth­ sent a chill up my spine and into my mind. She Xanti Schawinsky produces ing" or "wasting" time. Instead, he gave it a literal described her affliction as similar to sneezing. She Dance Macabre: A Sociological twist, shaping the piece with the words "blood, rust, could feel it coming on but later didn't remember Study at Black Mountain Col­ splash, and scoop." Initially he performed the piece what she had said." (continued) lege in North Carolina. It por­ trays the social and cultural i"!il|iit structure ofthe modern world in a form analogous to the "Dance of Death," a ritual per­ formance that originated in the Middle Ages. The audience members are cloaked in dark hooded robes.

1946 American artists look to Euro­ pean Surrealists for direction and insight in their efforts to create work of universal mean­ ing.

John Cage performs for the first time in Woodstock, New York. 4'33" consists of three move­ ments, each signaled by the rais­ ing and lowering of the piano keyboard cover. In Woodstock the sounds of wind in the trees, raindrops on the roof, and the mutterings of disgruntled audi­ ence members, mingle with Cage's composition.

1959 Allan Kaprow uses the term 'Happenings' for the first time in his text Something to take place: a happening, in which

ate an entirely new art form.

17 (continued from previous page) (continued from previous page) 1963 The Free Southern Theater is founded in Mississippi. Founder/ actorjohn O'Neal deals with rac­ ism and the recovery of Black cultural forms, particularly through the griot storytelling tradition.

1969 Yippies Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and cohorts throw money from the visitors' gallery onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

1971 PatOleszko appears in New York's Easter parade, poking fun at the absurdity of protecting oneself against the effects of nuclear war, urban gentrification, and censor­ ship ofthe arts.

1976 A review of Paul McCarthy Class Fool\r\ a California math classroom said: After eating hand cream and applying Rabensdorf wrote about his friend: ketchup to his penis he began to crawi beneath the chairs in "There's agirl I know with an affliction that causes her to blurt outwords and sounds. which the audience sat. To Affliction, contempt, because she is like me, we both have something that we didn't avoid getting the muck on their want, something that we didn't need, something that makes life harder. Hey hey hey clothes, they stood on the listen to me I'm a virgin." chairs. Hedrank ketchup...and began to vomit. There was a As a homosexual, Rabensdorf also felt victimized. He's since learned that how you rush to the door with five or deal with affliction shapes your identity. six people remaining.

Though he has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater Performance, he's not content 1983 to act out the ideas of others. He prefers writing and developing his own works. Anna Homier creates the " The world is my stage. Even when alone, I turn my shoulder a bit more elegantly Breadwoman, a universal or tilt my head as if I were being watched, as if I were performing on a stage where mother whose face is made of the entire world is populated by players." Rabensdorf s theatrical interests were bread dough. encouraged by his parents, consequently, as a child he hosted tea parties, presented skits for the neighbors, played with dolls and dressed in dresses. 1985 James Luna creates an anthro­ In college he performed Bound—An Observation In Restraiwf, by rolling himself pological installation,The Arti­ in a long black cloth, then unwinding it until he was nude. The audience gossiped fact Piece, by lying prone in a about the piece later, and the gossip followed him to Milwaukee where he was display case. perceived by some as an artist who worked in the nude. Nudity is the ultimate statement of freedom (he unwrapped himself recently in Beloit, Wisconsin) for 1990 him, but he uses it only when it serves his concept. He's just as likely to slink cat­ Joyce Scott addresses the many like while clad in a black leotard and spiky blonde wig. forms of discrimination in Generic Interferences Genetic Engineering Food as a topic took over much of his work in 1993. "Whipped cream, meat (lots attheWalker'sPointCenterforthe of it), melons, milk and bread, they all became props for Eat Me! Drink Me! and Arts in Milwaukee. A Food Piece, which was presented at The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. With the exception of mushy canned peas, I adore tasting it all. To taste is a great gift. Along 1992 with life, which is the greatest gift of all." Janine Antoni soaks her hair in aye and mops the floor of Art Insexciety evolved in 1992 from his observations of insects in the state of Georgia Awareness in New York. where Rabensdorf says "it's so hot they never die." After stepping on a pregnant spider which disgorged many smaller spiders, and discovering a scorpion in his bed, 1993 he set about combining ideas on insects, sex and society. He's never studied Freud, The National Endowmentforthe but sex is always somewhere in his performances. "Afterall," he says, "it affects all arts settles out of court and human actions." pays $252,000 to four artists who accused them of rejecting When he isn't working as a waiter, he hosts The Mad Hatter on Wednesday nights their grant applications on po­ at Foothold Studios. Located in the Lincoln Center ofthe Arts on Knapp street, litical rather than artistic it's a collective for the exchange of ideas and works in progress. Unlike the cramped grounds. apartment Rabensdorf calls home, the studio's cathedral ceilings, beautiful wooden floors and freestanding mirrors give him the inspiration he seeks. For the 1994 past two years, Rabensdorf has also been a member ofthe Joy Farm experimental The Cleveland Center for Con­ video theater troupe. He's written pieces about the devastation of AIDS and says temporary Art presents Outside he tries to incorporate at least a few comments on the disease into each of his pieces. The Frame: Performance and "It forces me to face my mortality. My preoccupation with time is connected to the Object. It is the first major AIDS, because the two are alike—cold and ruthless snatchers of life." exhibition to examine Perfor­ mance Art as it has developed Currently Rabensdorf is preparing a new picce,Game, which will include a segment over the past 25 years. using helium-filled condoms attached to his leotard. A saga ofthe hunter and the hunted, it will be part of a March presentation by Foothold Studio for Danceworks. 1995 He will also direct a work for The Different Drummer Theater Alliance at The Milwaukee artist Joseph Broadway Center in March. Meanwhile in the tantalizing light of Milwaukee cafes Rabensdorf fills condoms with and theaters, time seems less ruthless. In a "Rabensdorf second," minds link, the helium, attaches them to his clock stops and the now gives him (and his audience) "time," as he says in his poem, leotard, and performs Condom "to sip and recover and land on my feet like a cat." Cloud as part of a Foothold concert at Danceworks on —Christina Zawadiwsky March 1 1-12. (Christina Zawadiwsky is working on a book of short stories.)

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19 Roonamafe- prom r\t\\ fey Laura £, BembeMek AFTER I HAD MADE MY WAY AS A YOUTH Those bulging super-heroes weren't fear Trina Robbins, author of A Century of OH 60D x ^eeD ANcrHer AND WHi U, \r wneN MAILS AND WHAT IS WITH THIS through the Trbrie Belden series, (Trbrie me. I started catching frogs and looking Women Cartoonists, says that from the BREAK. ,THtS HAVE To 0KEAK RIGHT-WINS BfVKLPiSH HAi'fccuT AGAIN; HAV£ you WAV DOW I BELOW THESfclN was a female detective similar to Nancy at pictures in National Geographic in­ beginning mainstream comic books have eeeN futfiNS Ftf-rtLucfi. oN CfclTlerziNG ANT.I-FuR Drew), I decided I wanted to start read­ stead. L|NE?LO< (C AT THIS! iNOW revolved around young white boys'power l*y HEAD \NH?t£ I'M HAt/e NiNt ACTIVM5TS FOR. WEARING i PERFECT A/AILS L£ATHER 5H065 ? THE ing comic books. I liked Trbrie enough, fantasies and desires to take over the .'SLEEPING? AND A -^ STU(v\p ONLY ALTERNATIVE" |S but she seemed kind of wimpy. Mainstream comic books {Marvel and world. In 1945, Stan Lee, founder of / THUMB! PLASTIC WHICH »S NIoN- No NYMPHETS, DC GJWMS) haven't changedmuch since Marvel Comics, divided his company B\oDB&RADABL£H then. They're still crammed with vibrant into two departments: Super-Heroes tar­ colors, sci-fi plots and plenty of violence. geted to young boys, and Teen Comics, The heroes are almost always enormously targeted to young girls. Although there No STUD-BOYS muscular pink men in shimm ery scuba- were a few female cartoonists drawing diving suits. Female characters, if there and inking male supcrheroes, most of Chicago's Vagabond Press is only a year and half are any, are usually confined to the roles them were steered toward the Teen books old, hut it definitely has an "attitude." Located on There wasn't a comic book store close of victim or girlfriend, and look like with their emphasis on fashion, home- Chicago's North Clybourn Avenue, the staff pro­ enough to ride a bike to, so I went to a Barbies who have been shooting steroids making and romance. In the '60s, both duces micro mini comics in small runs of 100. No local drug store. I stood in front of the since the seventies. Marvel and DC Comics phased out fe­ one's getting rich and they realize they're "babies" magazine rack, paralyzed by the array of male-oriented comic books and began in the publishing business. But they are driven. concentrating solely on supcrheroes. By comic books, flipped through a few, and "Female supcrheroes, like femaleactio n You've beeN tfoRe OBNOXIOUS UOTSOFGC OD STUFF HAS TWe \.ahT at ttte eod of the left empty-handed. figures, don't sell. Sex does," explained 1974 there were only two females work­ THEY ALWAYS SAY IT'S DArfc. -runnel appar-e-rvUy is an Comic books are artistic creations, products of the heart THAN A POoDUE ON AMPHETA­ HAPPEN LATElM-THERE'SA esx BEFORE THE DAW^/ CAT INTHi orvcomir\Q tram- and soul, not cookie-cutter packages assembled for mass Kris Dresen, co-founder of a Chicago ing as artists for main-stream comics. MINES UStELW! "JOU've GOT TO |w*irrE HousE»wg THEY ALWAYS 5AY TWEfce'5 fouNDOirri fcrVUiS SCHLAFt-y'5 ipQ Mi Mates i^> ^+ +he- consumption. We are storytellers, preachers and poets; we alternative comic book

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20 Art Muscle HAT'S It was a chill Friday evening in November. Upon entering the gallery I was confronted by two nicely- HERMETIC? made, easy-to-read signs—white letters on sky blue ground, the gallery's name in lower-case, including SOMETHING parentheses, and the artist's name on the other, in TO DO WITH capitals. It looked like much care had been taken to present any easy-to-view showing of art by an art grant HERMES, THE recipient. I was disappointed, however, upon taking in the small blue washish acrylic painting hung at the wall OLYMPIAN left ofthe entrance. It seemed half-finished, whatever it GODS' SWIFT was. Was I supposed to complete the work for the artist? I wondered at the worthwhileness of my bother as I MESSENGER, WHOSE LEGEND­ walked through a large (about 5 ft. in diameter) metal rod. I had to duck my head to get in to see the rest ofthe ARY CUNNING, TRICKERY, AND show. THEFT SERVE TO CONDUCT THE "Whatth'...!" I wanted to exclaim, almost believing that DEAD INTO HADES? OR, ARE I had been the butt of an elaborate hoax. For I beheld such a tangled mess of mixed-up media: metal rods, WE ENTERING INTO A MESMER­ scraps of paper, wire, broken branches, and weird stuff IZING ALCHEMY? I THINK OF strewn about everywhere, including on the ceiling. It seemed some mastermind had gone to extraordinary ED MCMAHON, WHO, HAV­ lengths to reconstruct the disaster situation of my old flat on Warren Avenue: a pig's sty. Just then, some halfway ING INTRODUCED KARNAC decent speakers blared Ornette Coleman, the kind of THE MAGNIFICENT, WOULD music that would make John Kruth feel right at home. An unimposing fellow greeted me, calling himself Ni­ DECLARE THAT THE ENVELOPES cholas Frank. I'd been told it was a bring-your-own affair, but I hadn't brought any. Frank offered coffee, CONTAINING THE QUESTIONS tea, beer, wine, and bottled water while leading through ANSWERED UNSEEN BY THE the strangely arrayed showroom, and, voila! we were in a kitchen, where five or seven young men and women "SAGE FROM THE EAST" HAD gathered their refreshments and found their way back into the confusing display area. BEEN "HERMETICALLY SEALED IN A MASON JAR AND KEPT ON A few more artisans showed up, laughing about walking through the circle. Chairs had been brought out, situ­ FUNK & WAGNALL'S PORCH ated in a semi-circle in the middle of the gallery, and W Frank introduced Paul Druecke and asked him to relate SINCE NOON TODAY... his thoughts about the installation.

"I think I'll just say something about how the evening (HERMETIC) GALLERY OWNER went before I got here, and then, instead of making a speech or lecturing at this symposium, I'll just answer NICHOLAS FRANK AVERS questions anyone might have, or I'd really rather just THAT ALL THESE QUALITIES: have people make comments about the works and we can have a discussion about it." HUMOR, CUNNING, ALCHEMI­ Druecke went on to share his story about his pre- CAL MAGIC, HELLISHNESS, symposium dinner at Beans and Barley, which was EVEN POSSIBLY AIR-TIGHT­ supposed to have been a celebration of his installation. He and his companion ordered some hummus and bean NESS, AND MORE ARE PRESENT curd or something, then waited a long time, then AND CAN BE EXPERIENCED IN watched as their waitress served their order to another couple that had come in much later than Druecke, SCULPTOR/PAINTER PAUL apparently had not yet even ordered a thing, yet accepted the food anyway. After a long time Druecke what J s a

got the waitress to admit her error. An agonizing wait DRUECKE'S RECENT INSTAL­ ensued. Finally, their order arrived at their table, and because of the mix-up, neither Druecke nor his LATION: STARTFINISH EVO­ companion had to pay.

LUTION OF A CIRCLE." "I'M Nicholas Frank's outlook/inlook regarding Druecke's SURPRISED THAT SO FAR TO­ installation was energetically relentless in charging tran­ scendent meaning to its meanest characteristics. Here's NIGHT NO ONE HAS MEN­ a sample of the last paragraph in Frank's "Unstable Expectation," a brochure that was available for all TIONED THE SEXUAL ASPECT (hermetic) visitors. OF PAUL'S WORK," FRANK We are left to confront Druecke's work much like we STATED SINCERELY, MORE confront our daily lives. The pieces are incidents riddled with contradictions and multifarious dilemmas. We are THAN HALF-WAY THROUGH A in Druecke's world, a world where the answer is either up TWO HOUR SYMPOSIUM HELD or down, or sideways; his and/or hers; one, the other, both, or neither. AT HIS RIVERWEST GALLERY WHICH FRONTS HIS OWN LIVING QUARTERS. 22 Art Muscle But any absolute is undercut by the equanimoussuggestion It appeared that the other nine or eleven people were branches, rope, paper and wire, demanding quizzical of its opposite; though even due traditional concept of having a better time with this circle theme than I was. glances, and a huge white and black painting with the duality is unhinged by the exponential fragmentation of words: "The Journey" just taking up a lot of space in, what we usually consider to be either/or relationships;... An early-Beaties-Paul McCartney-eyed artist named again, a sort of note pad kind of jot, among all this, Druecke's paradoxes and contradictions have not with­ Jennifer Nowack agreed with everyone present that had everyone seemed baffled with this suggestion of sexuality. drawn into a safe zone. seen Druecke's first installation that this was the strong show. Well, up close those bluish, dreamy mists gave way Nobody else admitted they had read any sexuality in the I felt stoned after reading it. I don't know why Frank to the circle motifs once again drawn uncertainly, as if work, although there was agreement that it all hung bothered to read from Sartre during the symposium; his that struggle, making a circle, creating one, is as tough together well. One brave woman said the branch in the own stuff is much more fun. The thing is, when some­ as Michelangelo's freeing a slave from rock, or Van corner with Druecke's own blood dried in drops on the body possesses such an active mind as Nicholas Frank Gogh's painting the night sea with a candle atop his floor under it made her think of menstruation. "But I obviously does, assertions he makes are bound to make head, or as valid. wouldn't confuse that with sexuality per se," she added. any scribble seem worthy of poetical, philosophical reflection. The embarrassing words: "I AM PAUL A cool guy why brought his own wine posed this to DRUECKE..AM I PAUL DRUECKE" wended in Druecke: "How does that make you feel, if you say there's I didn't care for the huge oil paintings, black and and out of our field of vision. After an agonizing time of something in your work, and hardly anybody gets it?" white, with little stick figures carrying circles inside feeling I had ventured into a meeting of Interconnected and outside of great circles, which weren't circular. Unanimous, Frank brought up the idea of sexuality as an Druecke: "Well, I guess I have to work harder." They seemed like ideas jotted with lots of mistakes on important theme throughout all the works. a small note pad blown up to take up half a wall. The Suddenly, spare figures, like Picasso ink-drawn dancing smaller blue acrylics on paper were more tolerable: With a metal spiral looming over us from one area ofthe partners, appeared to be joustingabout two-thirds ofthe they involved a primary color. ceiling to the wall behind us, and a confused snarl of wire, way up the top of that heap of snarls I had noted above as a mess, and somehow, that changed everything!

That mess was now a mountain, a mountain with great twisting paths, streams, forests..! owned up to the group that I just now noticed the jousting figures ofwir e on that big "piece." One woman saw my joust as a celebratory dance. "Where are these figures?" someone else wanted to know. For the next several minutes, various humanlike figuresstarte d popping up all around the room.

Druecke said that these human figures, at least one, appeared in each piece. Everything started to look more interesting for me after that. Even cords for the lights lighting the show appeared to be part ofthe installation. And someone noticed a smudge on the ceiling which seemed to flow with the whole bit.

I didn't want to spoil everybody's fun by asking how this wonderful conglomeration could "live on" if individual parts were sold separately. That must be part of the nature of installations.

My favorite section was a simple piecc,Tightrope, a wire from a wall to the ceiling with a solitary Lehmbruck-like wire figure on it, seeming to push not just against gravity but also as though against a terrific wind, and a scrap of bluish paper stuck to the wire as if blown up there from one ofthe acrylics.

The room came alive. The cool guy with the wine said his favorite was a collage in a window toward the exit/ entrance. That window was an opening in a wall con­ structed explicitly for Druecke's installation. c ?

If Nicholas Frank continues to devote that much energy toward future shows at (hermetic) we will be coming through again expecting good things. Art Futures grant award winner Paul Druecke is a hard­ working artist who pilfered some ofthe materials for his project, and suffered burns creating it. His work takes a while to appreciate, as it does a circle of friends.

By the way, Hermes is also the guide to roads of commerce. Prices ranged from $250 to $2,200.

—Tim Kloss (Tim Kloss is a Milwaukee poet and free-lance writer.)

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Arts Organizations: (hermetic) gallery Please add Art Muscle to 828 E Locust; 264-1063 your mailing lists Now-February 26 Elephant 901 W National Avenue Dual site project by Brad Killam Milwaukee, WI 53204 Attn: Megan Powell Jewish Community Center 414/672-8485 6255 N Santa Monica; 964-4444 Now-February 24 Please submit calendar listings for April/May Ron Corfyn, Drawings in writing on or before March 10. Indude dates, times, single ticket price, location & John Michael Kohler Arts Center phone number. 608 New York, Sheboygan; 458-6144 February 5-May 7 Unless otherwise stated, all phone numbers are Tension Zones: An Installation by Patrick area code 414 Dougherty Large-scale environmental installation February 12-April 17 Silvia Malagrino, Habitat ART Photographic mural & photgraphs address at­ tempts to control land

Alfons Gallery Katie Gingrass Gallery 1501 SLayton; 672-3418 241 N Broadway; 289-0855 Now-February 19 Now-February 28 Pat Diacca Topp, Enamel Creations Marjorie Ryerson, Prints Katherine Belling, Ceramics Anderson Arts Center Sandy Shaw, Ceramics 121 66th, Kenosha; 653-0481 March 1 -April 30 Now-February 26 Shapes of Color IV Area Art Educators Exhibit Lisa Englander, Louise Hopson, Linda Sorem, Against the Grain: Sally G. Miller, Paintings Theresa Robinson, Sarah Aslakson, Tom Kelly, Tremper High School Student Art Barbara Minor

Artistry Studio Gallery Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum 833 E Center; 372-3372 700 N 12th, Wausau; 715/845-7010 February 1 -March 31 Now-February 26 Local Milwaukee Artists The Art of Eric Cade Illustrations by children's author WAD Broadway Theatre Center A Journey to H'mdoostan: Romantic Views of BY STEVE TESICH 158 N Broadway; 278-0555 India "Had me on the of my »••». February 1-12 100 aquatints reveal British colonial view of An Apocalyptic Comedy Silkscreens by Hispanic, Latino & artists of other India ' but also on the of my mind." nationalities March 4-April 2 -NY Magazine Student Art Exhibition Charles Allis Art Museum 5th through 12th grade artists 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 FEB 23 - MARCH 12 February 5-March 5 Mamie Pottery STIEMKE THEATER Ida Ozonoff, Abstract Landscapes 2711 N Bremen; 374-7687 TICKETS 278-7780 Reception Feb 5 1 -4pm March 4-April 29 March 9-April 2 Ten by Ten: A Wisconsin Potter's Invitational Silent Auction for Coach House Expansion Paintings by Joseph Friebert, Edward Green, Milwaukee Art Museum Elsie Heindl, Clarence Boyce Monegar, Garry 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Pisarek; reception Mar 9 5-8pm Now-February 5 Tense: New Work by Leslie Bellavance David Bamett Gallery Milwaukee photographer & installation artist THE GALLERY, LTD. 1024 EState; 271-5058 Currents 24: Stan Douglas February 1 -28 Vancouver-based artist combines video, pho­ French Master Prints tography & sound PAINTINGS SCULPTURES ORIGINAL PRINTS Matisse, Cheret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pisarro, more Now-February 12 From Hannibal to St Augustine: Ancient Art of iO; March 1-31 Milwaukee Historic Prints North Africa from trie Musee du Louvre ESTABLISHED & EMERGING ARTISTS Late 19th-century hand-colored lithographs & Now-February 25 wood engravings / 995 Scholastic Exhibition Works by Wisconsin junior&senior high school JEANNE COHEN JEWELRY COLLECTION Frederick Layton Honor Gallery students Cardinal Stritch College, 6801 N Yates; 352- Now-April 16 STERLING & MIXED MEDIA 5400 Arshile Gorky: Drawings ofthe 1930s CONTEMPORARY & TRADITIONAL Now-February 15'i^,J ' z Important avant-garde figure in US before All College Juried Student Art Exhibit WWII Tu£sdAr...WulNEMky...TkuRsd*y 11 to > February 19-March 17 Now-April 23 FnidAy & SAiuRtUy 11 10 7 ' SuwdAy 1 i IO i Women of Distinction Nathan Lerner Photographs OIIKR HUUB by AppOiNTMEM Plaster life casts of outstanding women affiliated Chicago-based photographer influenced by with Wisconsin; reception Feb 19 1 -4pm dada, surrealism, social documentary LOCATED IN THE CAFE KNICKERBOCKER February 24-June 18 Galleria Del Conte Romance & Realism in Wisconsin Art, 1880- 414-28^4866 1050 E. JUNEAU AVENUE 414^272-1611 1226 NAstor; 276-7545 1920 Now-February 1 2 Late 19th-century German-bom painters MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 55202 Color: An Investigation March 3-May 28 February 17-March 18 Latin American Women Artists, 1915-1995 MelanieAriens,JoeBoblick,KevinGiese,Paula Explores significant role of women in 20th- Schulze century Latin American art Reception Feb 17 7-pm March 17-April 9 March 31-April 29 20th-century Maslerworks from the Permanent Still Life Show Collection Works in all media; reception Mar 31 7-9pm Works returning from tour of Japan

Gallery 218 Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 218 S 2nd; 277-7800 273 E Erie; 276-7889 Now-February 15 February 6-March 4 Annual Juried Membership Show 20lh Annual All Student Exhibit 60 Formative Years of Industrial Design Grava Gallery February 2-March 11 RUBBER STAMPS 1209 E Brady; 277-8228 Looking At Ourselves: Visions of Homeless March 24-April 30 Children Femmes 15 Work by Paul Caster's Students Area women artists; receptions Mar 24 5-9pm North Shore Presbyterian Church Haggerty Museum of Art 4048 N Bartlett; 354-5534 WOW Marquette University, 13th & Clybourn; 288- February 2-28 & STAMPING PARAPHERNALIA 7290 Barbara Boehm, Oriental Watercolors Now-February 19 Paul Garrin: Yuppie Ghetto With Watchdog Peltz Gallery Interactive computer video installation 1119 EKnapp; 223-4278 Ian McKeever: Contemporary British Painting Now-March 25 March 10-June 11 Waldek Dynerman, Paintings & Mixed Media Rodin: Sculpture from the B Gerald Cantor Works on Paper ARTISTANDDISPLAY 9015 WEST BURLEIGH 442-9100 Collection; reception Mar 10 7pm John Gruenwald, Proof & Process: Preliminary MWF 9-6 • TUE & THUR 9-8 PM • SAT 9-5 • SUNDAY. 12-4 Studies, State Proofe & Editions 24 Art Muscle 0U T THERE

Sculptor Pays Homage To Wisconsin Women

"I'm not a hard-nosed feminist," says artist Joan Michaels-Paque, whose exhibition Wisconsin Women of Distinction Portrait Life Casts opens at Cardinal Stritch College's Layton Gallery on February 19. "I was concerned that primarily it's been men who have been documented historically with sculptural portraits," she says. Women, depicted anonymously or for their beauty, were virtually ignored. Prompted by funding from a Cardinal Stritch College Research and Development Grant, a Wisconsin Humanities Grant, and an Eli Lily Grant (with which Michaels-Paque studied witfi sculptor Willa Shalit in Santa Fe), she conceived and executed, over tfiree years, portraits of 21 significant Wisconsin women. With the state-of-the-art life cast process, originally developed to make prosthetic devices, Michaels-Paque used alginate, a seaweed derivative, and plaster gauze to create elaborate busts of notable artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and educators, induding Milwaukee Repertory Theater Managing Director Sara O'Connor, Ko-Thi Dance founder Ferne Caulker, Janice Hirschberg, of The Janice Salon, pre* school teacher Mary Tooley, UWM Business School professor Ceil Pillsbury, and African- American artist Evelyn Patricia Terry, among others. The exhibition, which concludes on March 1 7, will feature a lecture by one of Michaels-Paque's subjects, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Shirley Abrahamson, on February 1 9. Michaels-Paque's homage to these remarkable women is on-going; more portraits, with a broader focus, will be odded periodically to what she hopes will become a historical—and permanent—collection. r.ARTIST^ ARTIST REPS Piano Gallery West Bend Art Museum This Art 219 N Milwaukee; 276-3525 300 S 6th, West Bend; 334-9638 Increase Sales and Now-April 9 Now-February 12 Profits Producing Listen to the Land Alan Carter & M Kathleen Foreck-Raash %t\&^ Alan Gesler, photographs February 15-March 26 Your Own 4-Color Dreams, Hopes, Fears: Wisconsin Art From the Workshop/Talk by authors Silver Paper Gallery Permanent Collection ofthe Milwaukee Art Mu­ Jean Apgar & Julie Ekstam "LIMITED 217 N Broadway; 273-7737 seum Now-February 25 Now-May 7 Milwaukee Art Museum EDITIONS" Tide Photographs of Jim Brozek Early Wisconsin Art Selections from the Perma­ Saturday, February 18th on the Finest Canvas March 3-April 15 nent Collection 1:00-4:00 p.m. and Paper Selections Edward S Curtis: Photographs of (fie North American Indian Wriston Art Center Galleries $5 non-members Established 1959 $4 WP&S members at the door Images of Indians of western US Lawrence University, Appletan; 832-6585 For a pre-registration discount Now-March 12 MODERN GRAPHICS call 481-5770 United Community Center •With the Media, Against the Media Co-sponsored by WP&S & MAM 1-800-871-9666 1028 S 9th; 384-3100 Media images juxtaposed & recombined tocre ­ Now-April 7 ate new iconography fcv A John Ruebartsch, Photographs Images of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico

University of Wisconsin Center-Waukesha DANCE am looking for someone Fine Arts Center Gallery; 521 -5258 who has a glass Now-February 25 Currents: Works on Paper by Susan Messer Akrerno Presents blowing facHlfy. Pitman Theatre, 3401 S 39th; 382-6044 I would be interested University of Wisconsin-Parkside March 3 & 4 in working together Now-February 25 Full Throttle VICKI Annual Print Show Choreographer/dancer Ed Burgess; 8pm; $12 in any capacity. Traditional & experimental print methods from March 25 CHIGER artists representing 41 states Limon Dance Company Will share cost. World-famous modem dance company; 8pm; INTERIOR DESIGN, INC. I am experienced. UUWM Art History Gallery $12-$25 Mitchell Hall, 3203 N Downer; 229-5070 Mike 574-0565 February 9-March 12 Danceworks 318 W.CLOVERNOOK LANE British Satiric Prints at the Turn of (fie Century: 727 N Milwaukee; 276-3191 MILWAUKEE, WI 53217 1790-1810 February 3 & 4 English Regency prints Fluid Measure Company March 31-May 7 8pm;$10/$8 Jeanette Pasin Sloan February 24 351-4100 WATERCOLOR Chicago painter & printmaker focuses on Presentence DancTheaTr/Madison Youth Con­ domestic environment; reception Mar 31 6pm temporary Dance Ensemble 7:30pm; $10/$8 CLASSES UWM Art Museum March 11 &12 JEAN CRANE, INSTRUCTOR 3253 N Downer; 229-5070 Foothold Dance/Performance ARTISTS OF THE WORLD Now-February 26 7pm;$10/$8 Experienced and beginning painters. Brad Killam: Elephant March 19 UNITE! Dual site project Introduction to the Art of Flamenco Eight sessions, beginning in Mar—$135 Storytellers: The Expressionist Narrative Noon-3pm; $20/$l 8 door MILWAUKEE YOUTH Raphael DiLuzio, Dan Gustin, Catherine Cedarburg-Studio: 375-2627 March 23 THEATER NEEDS YOU! Arnold, Susan Morrison JoseLimonCompanyMasterClass;6:30-8:30pm Home: 375-8685 David Carbone: Internal Spectacle DONATE YOUR ARTWORK Paintings with carnival & vaudille settings Folkdance Internationale TO OUR FUNDRAISING Hardt Hall, 7500 W North; 871 -2708 AUCTION TO BE HELD UWM Fine Arts Gallery Experience not required; Wednesdays 7:30pm MAY 1,1995 AT SOUTH firt Classes and Workshops. 2400 E Kenwood; 229-4946 Individualized flrt Instruction. Now-February 19 International Recreational Dancing SHORE PAVILUON January 29, Sunday Evenings- States of Contrast: Contemporary South Af­ Muellner Hall, 7300 Chestnut, Wauwatosa; 662- ALL DONATING ARTISTS "Self Discovery Through Art" rican Printmakers 2293 Water Media (continues thru April 2) February 13-26 No partner required; Tuesdays 7:30-10pm, in­ RECIEVE FREE ADMISSION Feb. 7& 21, Tuesday Evenings- "Art For Non-Artists" Jill Engel: Recent Works troductory dancing 6:30pm; $2 TO EVENT. Various Media - no art experience needed Ceramic sculptures (THAT'S FREE FOOD, (also March 7 & 21) Milwaukee Ballet February 14 & 28, Tuesday Evenings- BOOZE AND SCHMOOZE FOR "Art Your Way" UWM Union Art Gallery PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 Individualized Projects (also Mar 14 & 28) 2200 E Kenwood, 1 st fl; 229-6310 February 16-19 YOU, COMRADE!) February 11: CaranD'Ache Now-February 23 Some Romantic Evening (Watercolor Crayon) Seminar -1 session Expanded Boundaries: Traditional & Non- Features Romance, a world premiere by Dane Information FROGS FORTH. LTD. Traditional Printmaking at UWM LaFontsee, & Scofcfi Symphony, Th 7:30pm F & Registration 964-2852 3195 S. Superior Street 8pm Sa 1:30 & 8pm Su 1:30 & 7pm; $9-$51 M Walker's Point Center for the Arts 911 W National; 672-2787 Pabst Theater Now-March 4 144 E Wells; 278-3665 Phyllis Thomson & Sally Duback February 4 Multi-media fiber installations Damhsa: A Celtic Odyssey March 12-April 15 Trinity Dance Company with guests Ko-Thi Dance ADVERTISE IN Artistic Traditions: The Work of Carrie Skoczek Company & Chicago's River North & Xsight! & Jilan Glynn modem dance troupes; 8pm; $8-$l 8 ART MUSCLE'S Mother & daughter artists team for installation; March 10 &11 reception Mar 12 1 -4pm The Parsons Dance Company April 23-May 27 Works by dancer/choreographer David Par­ RESDURCE GUIDE! Spirituality Show sons; 8pm; $10-$25 National juried show of art dealing with spirituality; reception Apr 23 1 -4pm UWM Dance Program APRIL/MAY ISSUE Chamber Dance Theatre, Mitchell Hall 254, West Allis City Hall Gallery 3203 N Downer; 229-4308 7525 W Greenfield March 21-26 DEADLINE: MAR 10 February 5-23 New Dancemakers '95 The Members' Choice 11 dances, 2 programs; Program I: Mar 21,23 West Allis Art Alliance members; reception 8pm Mar 26 3pm; Program II: Mar 22,24 8pm G72-8485 Feb 5 1 -4pm Mar 26 7pm; $7 25 s I OUT THERE MAM Hosts Latin American Women Artists LITERATURE

It was around trie time of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America that the idea I3EAD of a major exhibition of women artists from Latin America solidified for curator Gerry Biller, Audubon Court Books who had resided in Ecuador, Chile and Argentina for nearly decade. "I had thought about it for 383 W Brown Deer Rd; 351 -9140 a long time. Wherever I went in Latin America, I saw work by women artists. When I came back Poetry Readings here, I didn't see a true balance of the work of women and men in galleries and in exhibitions." Feb 2 - Mollye Barrett, Arlene Petty, Jo Ann Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, which opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Chang, Dennis Regan March 3, is the result of Biller's desire to emphasize the contribution of Latin American women Mar 2 - Irish Poets & Poetry International to 20th-century visual arts. Nearly 150 works—paintings, sculpture, fiber, works on paper and Each night concludes with open mike; 7pm; installations—by 35 nationally and internationally recognized artists from eleven countries are free Beadtrader included. She stresses that the show is not an introduction to these widely-exhibited artists, who Author Signings range from 20th-century pioneers like Brazilians Tarsila do Amaral and Anita Malfatti to Feb 4 - Dawn Raffel; 1 pm Beads from around the world Mexican self-portraitist Frida Kahlo to Colombian Olga de Amaral and Cuban Maria Feb 8 - Camilla Crespi; 7:30pm Magdalena Campos-Pons, contemporary artists working in fiber and multimedia installations, Feb 11 - Allen Young; free respectively. According to Biller, the number of noteworthy Latin American women who merited 2107 N. Prospect Ave., February 28 & March 28 inclusion in the show made the selection process difficult. Nonetheless, the participants in the Short Story Readings by Yaakov Sullivan Milwaukee 224-0555 exhibition, which continues through May 28, do demonstrate both the similarities and differ­ 8pm; free ences among the represented cultures. 15% off Regular Priced Ittmt Cafe Melange when you mention thie 720 Old World Third; 291 -9889 UWM Great Artist Series UWM Community Media Project Mondays Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 229-4308 UWM Union Theatre; 229-2931 PoeTs Monday February 10 Feb 3 - For Colored Boys Who Have Consid­ Open mike & featured acts; 8:45pm Ballet National du Senegal ered Homicide, Narcell Reedus; 12:30 & 7pm Traditional dance ensemble, drummers, musi­ Feb 4 - Sango Malo, Bassekba Kobino; 7pm People's Books cians; 8pm;$24/$20 Feb 5 - Bfacfc Panthers; Passin' It On, John 3512 N Oakland; 962-0575 February 24 Valdez; Malcolm X: Make It Plain, Orlando Feb 9- Never On Sunday w/ Jennifer Koppa, The Flying Karamazov Brothers Bagwell; 5pm Robin Axberg, Chuck Phillips They juggle almost anything; 8pm; $26/$22 Feb 6 - MOTV & Hairpiece, Ayoka Chenzira; Mar 9 - BillMurtaugh w/Saji Thomas & Roberto And I Still Rise, Ngozi Onwurah; 12:30 & 7pm Figueroa Weidner Center Feb 7 - Moretime; 7pm 8pm; preceded by open stage at 7:15pm UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet; 465-2726 Feb 8 - Zero Street, Daniel Bergin; 12:30pm; February 8 BirthofaNation 4x29x92, Matthew McDaniel; Riverwest Art Center VERY Ballet Theatre de Bordeaux 7pm 825 E Center; 374-4722 Classical ballet; 7:30pm; $24/$20 Feb 9 - Home Away From Home, Maureen 2nd & 4th Fridays fine framing Blackwood; Last Breeze of Summer, David Words & Music Wild Space Dance Company Massey,]2:30pm;StolenMomenls-Red,Hol& Poetry & acoustic music; 8pm; free Stimeke Theater, 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Cool, Eade Sebastian; 7pm February 16-18 Schwartz Bookshops Spring Forward/Looking Back World Cinema in the UWM Union Theatre 274-8680 Performance artist Jon Erickson and choreog­ 2200 E Kenwood; 229-4070 Writers to Readers Series raphers/dancers Diane VanDerhei and Kimm February 10-12 4093 N Oakland: Marks;8pm;$14/$12 L'Enfer; New psychological thriller by French Feb 1 - Barrie Dolnick; 7pm master Claude Chabrol; 7pm; $4/$3 Feb 15 - Sydney Lewis; 7pm Feb 18- TheoBikel Feb 22 - Apr// Sinclair; 7pm Mar 7 - Mark Leyner, 7pm Mar 20 - Rene Denfeld; 7pm 209 E Wisconsin: Charles Allis Art Museum Feb 24 - Dr Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 Cardinal Stritch College 17145WBluemound: Sundays Walter Schroeder Auditorium, 6801 N Yates; Feb 16 - Jeff Noon; 7pm Guided Tours 352-5400 Mar 14 - Niall Williams & Christine Breen; 7pm 2-4pm; $2/children free February 1 9 10976 NPt Washington: Joan Michaels-Paque Feb 3 - Dawn Raffel; 7pm Mecca Convention Center In conjunction with Women of Distinction ex­ Free 800/348-9255 hibition; 2pm; free m February 11 Stretch Movement Studio Danc'n for AIDS Haggerty Museum of Art 2625 N Downer; 961-2524 H'BlT Fundraiser for AIDS research, care, preven­ Marquette University, 13th & Clybourn; 288- Saturdays - What I Really Want to Say tion; 7pm 7290 Writing workshop for all levels; 11:45am 111 SECOND illltl February 3 Milwaukee Art Museum 818 SOOTH SECOID STREET - 383-3211 Catherine David, Director of International Woodland Pattern Book Center 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 Documenta X 720 E Locust; 263-5001 • Sunday Packer Brunch First Friday 7pm; Cudahy Hall, rm 001,13th & Wisconsin Feb 4 - Joy Harjoe • Yard Beer (Join the club!) Feb 3 - "Up & Coming' with The Yell Leaders March 10 Feb 11 - Reginald Gibbons & CJHribal • Specialties & Imports Mar 3 - The Feminine Mystique" Albert Elsen, Rodin Scholar Feb 25 - Kimiko Hahn & Peggy Hong February 12, 19, 26 Opening lecture forRodih: Sculpture from the B Mar 18 - Jewelle Gomez • Food Served Tues-Sun Family Sundays 11:30am—Close Gerald Cantor Collection; 6pm; free; Helfaer Mar 25 - Roberto Sosa Feb 12 -Heart Art! Theatre, 13th & Clybourn 8pm; $5/$4 • Specializing in Cajun feh ]9 - Can You Kazoo? March 22 & Island Items Feb 26 - If It Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It! • Visa & Mastercard Accepted Mind & Body: Psychology & Anatomy of Rodin Y-NoHl Mar 5 - Art O/e Sculpture 706 E Lyon; 347-9972 • Satellite T.V. Mar 12- Animania! Panelists Anthony D Meyer, MD & Nicholas 2nd & 4th Wednesdays • Friday Fish Fry 12:30pm; free w/ museum admission Meyer, MD; 7pm; free Poetry Slam February 15 March 29 Open mike & featured acts, then poetry slam; "Great sandwiches, good Senior Day The Continuing Impact of Rodin's Sculpture 8:30pm; $2 brew and a slice of Milwaukee's Tours, refreshments, music, free admission adults Art historian Jack Burnham, sculptors Richard past are on tap at the friendly 50-plus; 10am-2pm Hunt & Jill Sebastian; 7pm; free Fritz's on Second..." —Willard Romantini, Milwaukee Magazine Milwaukee Art Museum IvlUS 1C 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 FILM Gallery Talks Mar 7 - Latin American Women Artists Alverno Presents Mar 21 - 20th-century Masterworks Pitman Theatre, 3401 S 39th; 382-6044 Charles Allis Art Museum 1:30pm; free w/ museum admission February 11 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 February 23 Sonya Robinson Quartet Feb 10 - Naughty Marietta TheArtoflhetheCarverin 18-Century America Jazz violinist; 8pm; $12-$25 Feb 17 - Giri of the Golden West Lecture & demonstration by Luke Bedcerdite, Feb 24 - Bitter Sweet Curator of the Chipstone Foundation; 6:15pm; Audubon Court Boob Mar 10 - The Old Maid free w/ museum admission 383 W Brown Deer; 351 -9140 Mar 24 - A Night at the Opera Alia Levin, Classical Piano 7:30pm; $3/$l children Milwaukee Chamber Theatre M&Th 6-10pm; free Marquette University; 276-8842 Zoya Makhlina, Classical Piano Paradise Theatre MCT Viewpoints: The New Woman: Shavian & Su, Tu, W 6-10pm, Sun noon-4pm 6229 W Greenfield; 259-9600 Otherwise Jazz, Flamenco, Piano, Guitar Now-Feb 2 - Twenty-One Days; 7 & 9pm Feb 9 - Dr Toni Wulff Martin, in conjunction F & Sa 7:30pm; free Feb 7-9 - Babes In Arms; 7 & 9pm with MCT production of Candida Feb 10-12 & 14-16 - Romeo & Juliet, 7pm Feb 16 - Psychotherapist Rita Domnitz & Attor­ Bel Canto Chorus Feb 22-23 - The Cameraman; 7pm ney Lynn Novotnak, in conjunction with MCT Pitman Theatre, Alverno College, 3401 S 39th; Feb 24-26 & Feb 28-Mar 2 - Rear Window; 7 production ofOleanna 272-7950 & 9:10pm 7pm; free February 25 Mar 7-9 - Children of Paradise; 7pm Horn Novissima & Casey at /fie Bat Mar 10-12 & 14-16 - Little Women; 7 & 9:10pm Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design 8pm;$18/$12 Mar 22 & 23 - The Last Laugh; 7pm Todd Wehr Auditorium, 273 E Erie; 276-7889 Mar 24-26 & 28-30 - The Bridge on the River Lawyers Lectures for Creative Artists Cafe Phyllis Kwai; 7pm Feb 13 - Artistic & Intellectual Proeprty. What Is 734 S 5th; 647-2255 $2.50 It? How to Protect It?; Attorney Tom Miller Saturdays - Jerry Grillo Trio Mar 13 - Creative Artists & Tax Issues; Attor­ Jazz cabaret artist; 8pm; free neys Gerald Krug & Ann Reiger February 10 & 26 5:30pm; free Suzanne Grzanna; 8pm 26 Art Muscle Xerox and Canon color laser copies • digital color large format printing OU T THERE --^SfB-\ " A picture is & Performers Return to Wildspace in February worth o a thousand X Wildspace Dance Company is merging past and future February 17 and 18 at the Stiemke words. ft Theater with returning collaborators and the premiere of new work. In Spring Forward/Looking 3 Back, Former Wildspace performer Diane VanDerhei brings her solo A Nose For from her new ft. home base of Minneapolis, where it was performed at the Walker Art Center. Kimm Marks, Let your images O who danced with Wildspace from 1987 to 1990 and now resides in Columbus, Ohio, will speak ft 3 present Flooding, an improvisational, dissonant and quirky infusion of sound and movement. for themselves. O She is accompanied by Columbus composer/performer Brian Casey on trombone. Performance 3 artist Jon Erikson confronts the possibility that the objects of one's deepest desires are merely P O L O M A R O phantoms in Darkness, which features a video installation, music by Kohachiro Miyata, and DIGITAL IMAGING performer Jin Hi Kim on the komungo, a six-stringed Korean instrument resembling a board zither. Hand to Mouth, with music by Zorn and Morricone, is a series of quick-paced, absurd and darkly comic vignettes and is one of two new works by Wildspace. The other, Tfie Water

Last, with music by Paul Gaudynlcsi, features headstrong physicality and intricate partnering. For ft) more information, contact Wildspace at 271 -0307. -! -« O o 541 N. Broadway 3 February 12 Milwaukee WI 53202 9q Charles Allis Art Museum Soundgenerations: Top Brass 1414] 765-9229 1801 N Prospect; 278-8295 Asbury Brass Quintet; 2pm; $10-$24 igital photography and scanning services February 10 February 24-26 Mozart at the Keyboard Classics: Good Vibrations Fortepianist Trevor Stephenson; 7:30pm; $2 Mendelssohn, Macmillan, Sibelius; F11 am Sa February 19 8pm Su 7:30pm Cecilia Francis & Angela Gonzalez March 3-5 7pm; $1 Classics: Romantic Splendor Larsen, Chopin, Schumann; F Su 7:30pm Sa Civic Musk Association 8pm; 13-$45 Villa Terrace, 2220 N Terrace; 483-3223 March 9-11 Artist & Ensemble Series Classics: Rome & Rococo Feb 12 - Ami Bouterse, Soprano, Mark Rands, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Respighi; Th Schmandt, Tenor 7:30pm F 11 am Sa 8pm; $13-$45 LIGHT FOR Mar 12 - Metropolitan Opera Auditions Finalist March 24-26 2:30pm; $5/$3 Pops: I'll Be Seeing You- Love Songs of World War II The Coffee House Andrea Marcovicci, vocalist/actress; F Sa 8pm 631 N19th;744-FOLK Su 7:30pm; $14-$47 Feb 3 - Mid-Winter Talent Contest Feb 4 - Danny Newhouse Mitchell Domes Feb 10 -Open Stage; $1 524 SLayton; 483-3223 SALE Feb 11 - November Train February 26 Feb 17 - New Voices Concert, Food Pantry Sunday Serenades at Hie Domes Benefit, $2 plus 2 cans of food Young Latino Music Ensemble; 1 pm; free w/ Feb 18 - 8/// Complin w/ Ray Kinney Domes admission Feb 24 - George Guimann NEON FURNITURE Feb 25 - The Rose & Dragon Pabst Theater NEON SCULPTURE, NEON LIGHTING & SIGNS Feb 26 - Open Stage; 7:30pm; $1 144 E Wells; 286-8777 8:30 pm, $3 unless otherwise noted February 3 GALLERY/SHOWROOM-7316 W. GREENFIELD 453-1500 Tfie Chenille Sisters Dairy's Humorous female vocal trio; 8pm; $18 4001 N Oakland; 351 -9140 February 7 Fridays & Saturdays Rebecca Penneys Jazz, Blues, Flamenco, Folk Music Pianist performs complete Chopin Etudes 7pm; free February 17 SHE BO Y GA N Boys Choir ofHadem Early Musk Now Performs pop, gospel, classical; 8pm; $10-$25 All Saints' Cathedral, 818 E Juneau; 225-3113 March 4 February 25 Sonny Rollins Tfie Lodce Consort Acclaimed jazz saxophonist Dutch baroque ensemble commemorates Henry March 25 Applications will soon be available for Purcell;5pm;$20/$18 Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Cedar Walton, Billy the Fifth Annual Sheboygan Higgins Riverfront Art Faire; a weekend Festival City Symphony Combo comprised of jazz virtuosos of fine arts, crafts and entertainment Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells; 963-9067 8pm, $15-$30 unless otherwise noted along Sheboygan's charming Riverfront March 5 Boardwalk. A Scandalous Concert Prairie Performing Arts Center Music about scandals or that caused scandals 4050 Lighthouse, Racine; 631 -3845 APPLICATION DEADLINE: at their premieres; 3pm; $10/$6 February 17 U flotl APRIL 15th, 1995 Michael Johnson Florentine Opera Singer, showman, guitarist For application materials, send a self- PAC: Uihlein Hall; 273-7206 March 3 addressed, stamped business envelope to: Cocktails • Alternative Music March 17-21 Tish Hinojosa Tosca Texas-based country, folk, & Hispanic singer/ Riverfront Art Faire The Milwaukee Poetry Slam Giacomo Puccini's classic tale of love & trag­ songwriter Attn. Angela Gruenke edy; Tu 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; $17- 8pm;$10/$8 every 2nd and 4th Wednesday $75 c/o Harbor Centre BID Present Musk P.O. Box 791 of the month at 8:30pm Milwaukee Art Museum PAC: Vogel Hall; 271-0711 Sheboygan, WI 53D82-0791 750 N Lincoln Memorial; 224-3200 March 25 706 E. Lyon Street • 347-9972 Music in the Museum Tod Machover ATTCIIST 5th ft nth 1Q9S Feb 7 - 19th-Century Salon Music Flora, a work for electronics & slides; 8pm; $ 13 Feb 21 -Paris in 1900 Mar 7 - Music of Spain & Portugal Skylight Opera Theatre Mar 21 - Chopin Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Performed by Jeffrey Hollander; 5:30pm; $12/ 291-7800 $10 February 20 mmmmm Skylight Music Milwaukee Civic Concert Band Features Mendelssohn's String Octet; 7:30pm; mm m mtsmm Archbishop Cousin's Catholic Center, 3501 S $17 Lake; 483-8223 March 12 SThe Tasting Room 3pm;$5/$3 1100 E Kane; 277-9118 February 5 & March 5 tmSmSL Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Goodtime Jazz Ensemble PAC: Uihlein Hall, unless otherwise noted; 273- 3pm; $3 30% OFF Paints • Brushes 7206 Portfolios February 2-5 UWM Chamber Orchestra Classics: Spring Fever Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- 25% OFF Paper • Board • Airbrushes Brahms, Stravinsky; Th F Su 7:30pm Sa 8pm; 4308 $13-$45 March 26 veto 5(f% OFF CL0SE0UT MERCHANDISE February 8 7:30pm; $12 Midwinter Specials end March 15th Classical Conversations: Classical Twins - Mu­ ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS ENJOY sic & Drama UWM Fine Arts Quartet DISCOUNTS of 10%-30% EVERY DAY Haydn, Mozart, including excerpts from rVlar- Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- riage of Figaro & Don Giovanni; 7:30pm; $8- 4308 Arts & Crafts Retail Store $19; Pabst Theater, 144 E Wells February 1 2 & March 19 100A E. Pleasant St. (Walnut & 1ST), Milwaukee, WI February 10-12 3pm; $12 Hours: M-F 8:30-6, SAT 9-5 414-264-1580 Pops: An Evening with Marvin Hamlisch F Su 7:30pm Sa 8pm; $14-$47 27 OU T THERE

Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins To Open 1 995 Hal Leonard Jazz Series

It might be to our advantage if Milwaukee's notoriously grim March weather affects jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins during his visit on the 4fb. "Being in a rotten mood before you go on stage can be a plus,* he recently told an interviewer. "Sometimes it's good to go on stage when you're mad, because you can take it out on the music, and then actually play more wild, play more stuff." That's not to say that Rollins' concert at the Pabst Theater won't captivate Milwaukeeans if he is in high spirits; the virtuoso carries on tradition of the jazz greats with whom he recorded (by the tender age of 23) in the 50s: , Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Clifford Brown. Later he worked with his own trio, recording durable works like Freedom RESTAURANTS FRAMING Suite and A Night at (fie Village Vanguard. His latest recording, Old Flames, continues his legacy of lyricism, emphasis on melody, and simplicity. In fact, Rollins' search for "that real simplicity* may have been nurtured by his celebrated "sabbaticals" from the scene, during which he'd practice relentlessly, day or night, on the Williamsburg Bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn. For ticket information, call the Pabst Theater at 286-8777. Museum quality frames at wholesale prices UWM Institute of Chamber Music Mad Hatter Performance Series Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- Foothold Studio, Lincoln Center for the Arts, rm Reusable exhibition hardwood frames in 4308 110, 820 EKnapp; 276-2243 white ash, hard maple, & cherry. Standard February 16 & March 2 March 1 & custom made sizes. Spacer, strainer, spline options. Floater frames for canvases 8pm;$4/$2 Joseph Rabensdorf, experimental work, guests on bars in standard & nonstandard depths. share poetry, music, dance, film; 8pm; free Fast delivery. UWM Piano Chamber Concert Series Buy Direct from Manufacturer Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- Walker's Point Center for the Arts Call for Free Color Catalog 4308 911 W National; 672-2787 1-800-626-3139 Feb 5 - Voices of Eastern Europe February 3 & 4 Mar 26 - A Century of Song Reno METROPOLITAN 3pm;$12/$6 New York writer & performer Cristina Herrera UWM Symphony Band Colombian-born poet PictureFraming 229-4308 March 3 & 4 March 1 - 12:30pm; free; UWM Union Con­ Dan Kwong course, 2200 E Kenwood Artist explores Chinese-Japanese-American March 5 - 7:30pm; $6/$3; St Robert's Church, heritage 2224 E Capitol March 31 & April! SERVICES Jones Twins UWM Woodwind Arts Quintet Spoken word & musical cabaret; 8pm; $8/$4 Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2400 E Kenwood; 229- 4308 March 6; 8pm; $6/$3 THEATER Waukesha Symphony Orchestra Carroll College, Shatfuck Auditorium, 100 N East, Waukesha; 547-1858 Acacia Theatre EDEN© February 5 3300 N Sherman; 223-4996 an alternative florist All Beethoven Concerf;2pm; $10-$l 7 February 15-March 12 Enjoy the finest Authentic Thai Tfie Foreigner Cuisine in a luxuriant and relaxing Weidner Center Larry Shue UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet; 465-2726 Englishman visiting the South pretends not to Thai Atmosphere February 11 understand English; W Th F Sa 8pm Su 3pm; Visit our Northwest location Kodo Drummers of Japan $8-$12.50 —76th and Good Hope— 11 Innnnpw dnimmftrs* $8-$94 February 14 boulevard Ensemble *• THE KING AND I Mahlaihini & the Mahotella Queens 2252 S Kinnickinnic; 672-6019 RESTAURANT South Africa meets rock-n-roll; $24/$20 February 17-March 12 February 15 Two English Dandies Phone 276-41 81 • Reservations Taken Bobby McFerrin A double bill of Harold Pinter's A Slight Ache & 823 N. 2nd St. Downtown Milwaukee Versatile vocalist; $12-$28 Joe Orion's Funeral Games; Th & Su 7:30pm 291-9314 • 789 N. 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FISH Martin Haselbock Drummer Theatre Alliance Austrian organist; $24/$20 Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway Heme ©f the March 17 March 2-5 EccDie Burger Manheim Steamroller Our Way Another Queer Evening New Age group performs with visual compo­ Th-Sa 8pm Su 2pm nents; $24-$40 —LIVC AUSK nidHTLT- March 19 First Stage Milwaukee 502 WEST GARFIELD AVE. Beethoven Trio Vienna PAC: Todd Wehr Theatre; 273-7206 Performs Austrian classical & contemporary Now-February 17 AILW, WI • 263-3399 composers; $14/$l 2 Rock 'n' Roles from Shakespeare AASTCP CAI>D • VISA • AACPICAfl CXPBC55 March 20 Scenes from Shakespeare intersperesed with Chorovaya Akademia Russian male choir; $24/$20 February 24-March 11 , ^ - — March 22 Warabi-za T : r Tfie Newport Jazz Festival On Tour: 40m An­ Japanese folk song & dance company White niversary Sa Su 1 & 3pm; $6-$l 1 FRAMING Performances by Newport stars; $24/$20 March 31 Inertia Ensemble Buffalo y| Andre Watts Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; Celebrated classical pianist; $32/$28 289-9380 Intertribal Stare All performances 7:30pm February 10 & 11 Native American jewelry Savage In Limbo kachinas, pottery, fine art John Patrick Shanley tapes & CD's, greeting cards 5 losers congregate in a Bronx bar, looking for SB&c buffalo meat, ribbon shirts PERFORMANCE ART a way to a new life; 10pm; $5 Gift Jewish Community Center Theater Company Come see us at our new location Broadway Theatre Center 6255 N Santa Monica; 964-4444 Tue, Thu-Sat: 11-5 certificates 1601 N. 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MMM''w, Wl 5320 4 February 11 -21 UWM Fine Arts Theatre, 2400 E Kenwood Shaw Snorts Blvd; 229-4308 Two Shaw one-acts How He Lied to Her Hus­ February 16-March 5 PARTY AT band & Tfie Fascinating Founding performed Macbeth OUR HOUSE! by Screaming Penguin Prodcutions; Sa 4pm Su William Shakespeare —I MTu7pm;$10 Macbeth, confronted by 3 prophesying sisters, • 2 burgers bailies fate & conscience as he becomes King of 4 games of bowling The Milwaukee Players Scotland; WTh 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; Pitman Theatre, Alverno College, 3401 S 39th; $14/$12 Plus 6-pack of beer 647-6050 February 2-5 Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa Edward S. Curtis, photogravures prize to go! Biloxi Blues 9508 Watertown Plank Rd; 744-8916 OREIMINC3 RECERTIOIM All for $20.00 FRIDAY. MAFICH 3rd. 7pm to 1 Dpm Neil Simon March 24-April 2 per couple. a 2nd in trilogy of saga of Eugene Morris Jerome, Godspell; Folk-rock musical based on Gospel now a young army recruit; Th-Sa 8pm Su 2pm; of St Matthew; F Sa 8pm Su 2:30pm; $7/$6 $10/$9 Waukesha Civic Theatre Milwaukee Repertory Theater 506 N Washington; 547-0708 ARTISTRY! 108 E Wells; 224-9490 Now-February 12 Powerhouse Theater: Romance, Romance Now-February 19 Barry Herman & Keith Harmann Studio~ Gallery I The African Company Presents Richard the Two one-act musicals LOCAL ARTWORKS Third March 10-26 Lettice & Lovage FEATURING Cadyle Brown POTTERY, PHOTAGRAPHY, I @lcW4ic £cute4, America's first African American theatre in Peter Shaffer JEWELRY, FIBERS,CHIDRENS i 2239 S. 13th Street • Milw WI 53215 I 1821 Manhattan; $8-$26 Flamboyant tour guide of British estate embel­ BOOKS, CARDS ; 383-1312 ' j February 26-April 2 lish its history; F Sa 8:15pm Su 2 & 7:30pm; $9 AND SO MUCH MORE ! | Six Characters in Search of an Author ALSO, CALL ABOUT CLAY CLASSES 1 Luigi Pirandello Weidner Center UW-Green Bay, 2420 Nicolet; 465-2726 833 E. 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V A Moon for the Misbegotten contemporary version set in an African nation FEMMES Eugene O'Neill in revolt; 7:30pm; $24/$20 Wi All Day ~ All Night J Scheming family is motivated by greed; $18/ FIFTEEN |> $1.25 per game /. $14 MARCH 24 THROUGH APRIL 30 All performances T Su 7:30pm W 1:30 & 7:30pm Th F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm TV/RADIO ARTIST RECEPTION SsssssssssssssssA Next Act Theatre MARCH 24TH Stiemke Theater, 108 E Wells; 278-7780 5-1 0PM February 23-March 12 Alternating Currents in 20th Century Musk On the Open Road Sundays Steve Tesich DJ Hal Rammel; 6:00pm; WMSE 91.7 FM 1209 EAST BRADY STREET In a futuristic, war-torn world, Al & Angel HOURS: ADVERTISE IN struggle for freedom; Th F 8pm Sa 5 & 9pm Su Do The Video M-F: I0-6.SAT: 10-5 2pm (Feb 26 6pm); $22/$l 8 Fridays TELEPHONE: 277-8228 ART MUSCLE'S Videosof Milwaukee & Wisconsin-area bands; Racine Theatre Guild 10:30pm; Warner Cable 14 2519 Northwestern, Racine; 633-4218 G R A V A CLASSIFIEDS! Now-February 12 Down Home Dairyland GALLERY Tfie Mirade Worker Saturdays William Gibson 8pm; Wisconsin Public Radio, WHAD 90.7 FM FINE ART • POSTERS • FRAMING Story of Helen Keller; F Sa 8pm (Feb 11 4:30 & APRIL/MAY ISSUE 8pm) Su 1:30 & 7pm; $9.50-$l 1 Guitar Nuts March 10-April2 Mondays Tons of Money Forguitarists&fans; Channel 14; 9pm; Warner DEADLINE: MAD ID Alan Ayckboum Cablel 4 & Viacom 11B; 353-5052 Unsuccessful inventor schemes to inherit a for­ tune; F Sa 8pm Su 1:30 & 7pm; $9.50-$l 1 Joy Farm Mondays ART MUSEUM Skylight Opera Theatre Milwaukee's cutting edge video performance D72-D4D5 Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N Broadway; troupe; M 10 pm, Warner Channel 14 Appt's0 (10W637-li353t5p 291-7800 Now-February 12 Milwaukee Ballet Radio Hour Partenope Wednesdays GF Handel 7pm; WFMR 98.3 FM Story of beautiful warrior princess who founded Naples; W 7:30pm F Sa 8pm Su 2pm (Feb 5 Noise Bazaar Corpor 7:30pm); $16-$39 Saturdays March 15-April 2 Alternative music video programming; 11 pm; Heartsongs Warner Channel 49 | Curator's Choice Gallery A tribute to the American love song with music | Bank One Plaza - Water Street Lobby by Bernstein, BeHin, Ellington, more; W7:30pm Where the Waters Meet January - March 1995 F Sa 8pm Su 2pm (Feb 5 7:30pm); $16-$39 Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays Christina Zawadiwsky | WISCONSIN Sunset Playhouse Feb 3 - In Calm Time by Wildspace 800 Elm Grove Road; 782-4430 Feb 10 - Famous Poets & Writers ii LANDSCAPES Now-February 5 Feb 17- TADA Variety of artists & medium A...My Name is Alice Feb 24 - Movement & Drawing wilfi Tfiea fCovac February 24-March 12 Mar 3 - Dana Kohler, Rhythm of me Streets Dave Belling - Judith Pichler Tfie Mousetrap Mar 10 - New Aerosol Compositions by Rich­ Emmett Johns and others Please Support Agatha Christie ard Waswo The United Performing Arts Fund. 414-273-8723 Group of strangers, invluding a murderer, are Mar 17 - Fall Back & The Coming ofthe Shorter EO B« 11756 stranded in a boarding house; Th F 8pm Sa 6 Light by Wildspace Milwlut.«, Wi 53211 &9pmSu2&7pm;$10 Mar 24 - INFINISYNTH Videos Wff 7pm Fridays simultaneously on Warner Chan­ Catherine Davjilson 414 221.3715 Everybody's Got "lb Get Into The Act. nels 14 & 11B, repeated 2pm Mondays, Tues­ days, Wednesdays on Channel 14 29 TS PELTZ GALLERY 1119 E. Knapp, Milwaukee, WI (414) 223-4278 Jean Alba no Gallery CHICAGO 311 W Superior; 312/440-0770 Now-March 18 Continuing Through March 25th: Gallery Group Show "Waldek Dynerman: Paintings, Mixed Media Works on Paper" ART Marx Gallery Carl Hammer Gallery 230 W Superior; 312/661 -0657 200 W Superior; 312/266-8512 "John Gruenwald, Proof & ARC Gallery March 24-April 22 Now-February 11 Process: Preliminary Studies, 1040 W Huron; 312/733-2787 Joe Nielander, Glass & Metal Sculpture Fine-Tooning Pop State Proofs & Editions" February 1 -25 Sandy Blanc, Paintings Museum of Contemporary Art Catherine Edelman Gallery Susan Slrack Balding, New Work 237 E Ontario; 312/280-5161 300 W Superior; 312/266-2350 Now-March 5 See us at the Pfister Hotel for February 10-Marcb 18 Aran Packer Gallery more man 15 minutes... MADA Art Show March 10/11 Michael Kenna, Recent Work 1579 N Milwaukee; 312/862-5040 Kiefer, Kitaj, Warhol prints Now-February 18 Now-March 12 Eclectic Junction Random Access; Will Northerner, new paintings Some Went Mad...Some Ran Away Opening Sunday, April 2nd 1630 N Damen; 312/342-7865 Work of 15 international artists Now-February 5 3-5:30 p.m. Artemisia Gallery Options 49: Hiroshi Sugimoto Something Fishy "Jeannette Pasin Sloan: 700 N Carpenter; 312/226-7323 March 25-May 30 Now-February 24 Bruce Naumann: Elliott's Stones Paintings, Works on Paper " Ehlers Coudili Gallery Lid Alreen Hariman, Valerie Brdoar, Valerie Taglieri, Visions of Hope & Despair: Contemporary 750 N Orleans; 312/642-8611 Heather Atwood, Kali Toivanen Photography from Chicago Collections ib £ February 3-March 11 February 28-April 1 March 25-June 4 Tfie Majestic Vision Adele Collins, DonnaMcLaughlin, Olivia Petrides, Franz Kline Photos of Yosemite by Ansel Adams & others Elaine Scheer, Emily Lichly Woods March 17-April 15 Museum of Contemporary Photography Florence Henri & Bill Brandt Art Institute of Chicago 600 S Michigan; 312/663-5554 Michigan at Adams; 312/443-3626 Now-March 25 Excalibur Now-March 12 - Bystander A History of Street Real Pictures: An Installation by Alfredo Jaar 632 N Dearborn; 312/633-0706 Photography Includes images of war-ravaged Rwanda Now-March 19 - Joel Meyerowitz on the Street February 11 -April 30 MWMWM The First Decade Eclectica Now-March 19 - Andre Kertesz, 1894-1985: A 1255 S Wabash 5th fl; 312/786-0782 February 3-25 Centennial Celebration Gallery A CAR, Arturo Herrera, Ginger Roberts February 18-May 8 - Louis Sullivan & the Prairie 300 W Superior; 312/280-4500 School: Selections from ihe Collection at The Art February 17-March 17 Ohio Street Gallery Institute of Chicago New Work by Michael Miller & Peri Schwartz a February 18-May 28 - Gustavo Caillebotte: Ur­ 214 W Ohio; 312/988-9990 Inn"timate Dining Now-February 14 ban Impressionist Gallery Ten Diane Cooper, Tobby Fried, Paintings Valentine's Day Specials 514 E State, Rockford; 815/964-1743 Beacon Street Gaiety Shrimp Creole with lemon, basil pasta or March 18-April 28 Perimeter Gallery 4520 N Beacon; 312/528-4526 Regional Artists Exhibit Rouge Tenderloin Filet, red and green 750 N Orleans; 312/266-9473 peppers, mushrooms, merlot sauce February 12-March 23 Now-February 4 $19.95 The 30s, 40s, & 50s: A Midcenlury Retrospective kJao Elana Gulmann, New Work White ZJnfandel wine with dinner and by The Chicago Society of Artists 1616 N Damen; 312/235-4724 John Mason, New Work chocolate mousse with rusberry sauce February 10-March 11 February 10-March 11 Dining in a Romantic Atmosphere Block Gallery Stephen Szoradi, Photos & Sculpture Warrington Colescott, Richard Shaw, Ann Call for Reservations Northwestern University, 1967 Sheridan; 708/ March 17-April 22 Baldwin 3 Blocks West of Lake Michigan on 491-4000 Lincoln Schatz, Drawings & Sculpture 800 E. Wells/800 N. Cass St. • 276-1577 Now-March 19 Polish Museum of America The Emigrant Artist & the Artist in Exile: A Lost Illinois Art Gallery 984 N Milwaukee; 312/384-3352 Generation of Austrian Art in America, 1920- 100 W Randolph; 312/814-5322 Now-February 15 1945 Now-March 17 Krakovian Szopkas Now-March 5 Claire Prussian: Retrospective l\6cl 1 Aft (won't match your sofa) Dabloids & Elephants: Leonid Tishkov - Crea­ Julia Fish, Drawings tures Printworks Real Milwaukee Artists 311 W Superior, suite 105; 312/664-9407 February 17-March 18 Martyl: New Work March 24-April 22 Daniel Leary. New Work

Randolph Street Gallery 756 N Milwaukee; 312/666-7737 rlADISOM Now-February 18 Gid Germs M. Hoelzer - Recent Work Now-February 25 / Love What I'm Doing Opening Reception: Sunday, February 12th 1-3 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1040 W Huron; 312/226-1449 Wisconsin Academy Gallery , thru March 31st Now-February 24 ART 1922 University; 608/263-1692 Ephemeris Time SOUTH SHORE GALLERY Now-February 28 February 10-March 29 & FRAMING Apple Island Jeff Lispschtz, Paintings Cheap Art 849 E Washington; 608/258-9777 March 1-31 2627 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. 481-1820 Now-February 25 Ellsworth Snyder, Retrospective Suburban Fine Arts Center •Watercolors 'Oils • Photography 'Prints* Celebration of Lesbian Couple Pride • Fiber Art 'Native American Art 'Abstract* 777 Central, Highland Park; 708/432-1888 Images of 12 SE Wisconsin couples MUSIC March 24-April 18 Finest Quality Custom Framing Bead & Embellishment Artists Common Wealth Gallery Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra First Congregational United Church, 1609 100 S Baldwin, 3rd fl; 608/258-8811 Winnetka Antiques Show University; 608/257-0638 February 3-12 Winnelka Community House, 620 Lincoln; 708/ Three Landscapes & Dialogues February 11 446-0537 Music for Valentine's Day FOR LUNCH FOR DINNER February 17-26 March 3-5 Yong Jin Chung, Small Scale Sculpture Mozart, Haydn, Walker; 8pm; $14/$10 FOR FUN F 10am-9pm Sa 10am-6pm Su noon-5pm; $8 March 17-26 for 3-day admission Eric Olson & Ron Anderson Wisconsin Union Theater 800 Langdon; 608/262-2201 Wood Street Gallery Etvehjem Museum of Art February 3 - Lynn Harrell & Yefim Bronfman 1239 N Wood; 312/227-3306 THE CENTRAL GRILL UW-Madison, 800 University; 608/263-8188 Cellist & pianist perform Dubussy, Beethoven, Now-February 11 Now-February 1 2 Mendelssohn; 8pm; $23/$11.50 Recharge ofthe Light Brigade February 9 - Kodo Drummers of Japan STEAK HOUSE UW-Madison Department of Art Faculty February 18-March 25 11 Japanese drummers; 8pm; $25/$l 2.50 Quadrenniel Show Tfie Power of Pattern March 4-April 30 March 3 -AndrasSchifr; Pianistperforms Bach, Bartok, Beethoven; 8pm; $23/$l1.50 SOPHISTICATED AMBIANCE James Rosenquisk Time Dust, Complete Graph­ ics 1962-1992 Please note that we are no AFTER THE THEATER THEATER Madison Art Center longer using our PO Box. 211 State; 608/257-0158 Wisconsin Union Theater FOR DESSERT FOR COFFEE Send all materials to: March 4-May 7 800 Langdon; 608/262-2201 Tfie American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of March 2 Abstract Painting; Young At Art Macbeth Art Muscle 223-4745 William Shakespeare 901 West National Avenue Royal Shakespeare Company version set in 316 NORTH MILWAUKEE ST Spring Street Artisans Gallery Milwaukee, WI 53204 HIS Spring, Cambridge; 608/423-4397 modern-day Africa; 8pm; $21 /$10.50 Now-March 31 March 25 Reservations Accepted and Encouraged Robert Fono & Susan Lukas, Photographs Gray's Anatomy; Spalding Gray's mono­ Private Party Space Available Nenevah Smith, Glass Sculpture logues search through alternative medicine; 8pm; $21/$! 0.50

30 Art Muscle ^g| |B>HBBV N1988DANPETERMAN Peterman's gallery installation consisted of six one ton ^^^ £ buried a Volkswagen stacks of gypsum wallboard, laid horizontally atop W fla bus under a small recycled plastic "4 x 4s", a must-read gallery guide, \ fl mountain of compost and some important research documents. Included ^m containing a high per- with these encased files, is a certificate which the artist •• centage of horse ma- purchased from the United States Environmental ^m nure, attached an en- Protection Agency. It allows him to pollute the atmo­ J gg closed doorway to the sphere with up to one ton of sulphur dioxide emis­ / K side of the vehicle, and sions. Compared to the constantly churning pollution ^^ ^^r modestly decorated the of industry, Peterman's gesture is peanuts. However, V ^^^Mp^^^ interior. Chicago Compost he has taken a giant step in the monumental symbol­ Shelter took shape at a south Chi­ ism of his purchase. His research and execution paral­ cago recycling center where Peterman worked lel industry technology and his art-making breaks new for nearly a decade. By producing this sculpture- ground historically. shelter-gesture, he laid the foundation for his continu­ ing project that investigates the realities and absurdi­ It took patience, time and effort to view this show. It ties of consumption and the resulting post-consumer was necessary to read all ofthe information, study the waste stream. documents and consider the wallboard sculptures. The reward was some insight into the hazards of coal After associations linked to Chicago Compost Shelter burning, sulfur dioxide emissions, alternatives to waste, have been listed (homelessness, environmentalism, the increasing depletion of natural resources, and the Archive, made from post- consumer, reprocessed plas­ site work...) the subtleties ofPeterman's work emerge. abstract nature of selling shares of the atmosphere. tics, is planking sectioned into scores of randomly Due to his remarkable stamina of working in the Peterman's acute sensitivity to forms and ideas as colored tiles stacked in a low, wide, bookshelf-like margins between art and life, his methods and presen­ expressed through minimal sculpture was thought arrangement, all of which suggests an inventory of tations question the role ofthe artist as producer ofthe provoking and stimulating. He wrote the bulk ofthe floor tiles or exterior shingles. This clear reference to collectable object. His research and development build gallery guide and provided research material which consumer product is beyond a re-working of Carl on prior discoveries about post consumer waste (alu­ heightened the didactic while blurring the boundaries Andre. In fact, the consumer could purchase these minum, plastic, compost), and it is within this territory between prints, multiples and text panels. His stacked tiles for their kitchen floor. A wide variety of recycled that Peterman pointedly highlights the over-abun­ gypsum will be used for future MCA construction plastic products rest on retail shelves, pointing out that dance of stockpiled, post-consumer material without projects; in doing this he negates the preciousness of Peterman has kept pace with this alternative to prod­ a use. Two recent projects have made their way from the objects and identifies the institution as participant uct manufacturing. the recycling center and into the polished interiors of in limestone resource depletion. Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and These tiles are an exclusive product in an exclusive Feigen Gallery respectively. But does any of this belong in the museum? If a viewer market. This poses a dilemma with two solutions: the returns home and consciously gathers plastics, glass, work can remain as metaphor in the art arena or Sulfur Cycle, a continuing project at the MCA, de­ aluminum, and newspaper, then Peterman has suc­ Peterman can move into industry and develop his tailed sulfur dioxide emissions that result from burn­ cessfully engaged his audience far beyond the museum projects for the consumer market. Most likely he will ing coal to produce electricity. One option/alterna­ walls. As MCA embarks on new building and a new remain in the art world while continuing his program, tive for emission control incorporates (inside the era, Dan Peterman will follow his program with or but the message is clear: if we ignore action, natural towering exhaust stacks), a scrubbing system which without institutional support. resources will disappear and the sky may indeed fall. breaks down the emissions into a sludge of lime deposits which can then be used to produce gypsum Peterman's untitled presentation at Feigen takes on a wallboard, thus possibly replacing the depletion of more traditional role. Here he simply places sculpture —Brad Killam natural limestone resources. in the gallery. There are no text panels, no documents. (Brad Killam lives and works in Milwaukee.) iiil iifitii *

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