Visual Art – Page 2 – an intuitive perspective

January 4, 2024

Throwback Thursdays: Leading Up To Our Fourth Anniversary!

Our fourth anniversary is coming on on March 21, 2024. So to get ready for the celebration, I am going to us the Throwback Thursday trend to repost our most popular items from the past on the various social media platforms that I use. So watch for them on Facebook, X, Post, Instagram, Threads, and LinkedIn. But in case you want to take an early peek at them, here’s they are: (in no particular order)

Double Double Toil and Trouble Yields UWM’s Theater Department’s Gripping Presentation Of Macbeth!

American Players Theatre Closes 2023 Season With David Auburn’s Proof!

Milwaukee’s Kith & Kin Theatre Collective Presents Pulitzer Prize Winner: Next To Normal!

Ghostlight Theatre: Green Day’s Musical Based On American Idiot!

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time at Lake Country Playhouse!

Lake Country Players present : Cabaret!!

Renee Cox: Yo Mama’s Pieta: In Memoriam Of All Those Recently Lost…

A Tale Of Two Cities: Notre Dame Cathedral and Hagia Sophia

Can We Conserve Time Based Media in the 21st and 22nd Centuries?

First Stage’s Young Company Presents Shakespeare’s Henry IV (Part 1)

August 1, 2023July 31, 2023

Stealth Public Sculpture In Milwaukee County’s Lake Park! Part 5: One New Sculpture and Two Disappearing Acts

I have documented a number of pop up sculptures in Lake Park and environs over the years and every time I travel on Lincoln Memorial Drive, I search them out and treat them as landmarks on my journeys. But I hadn’t really traveled that route since the spring semester at UW-Milwaukee ended…but when I headed back that way after a visit to Shorewood, I was amazed to see a new sculpture. Now I am pretty confident that it wasn’t there during the Harley Davidson Homecoming Weekend, July 25 – 28th, 2023. But there it was last Thursday in a new spot just about a 100 yards south of Colectivo Coffee at the Lakefront (1701 N Lincoln Memorial Drive).

It is a classic work in the series using man made and manipulated elements of concrete impaled on steel rod and once again embedded into a fallen tree trunk.

and again, I apologize for the washed out look. I tend to visit in mid-day and the strong sun contributes to a very washed out look and of course the material is very reflective.

But in the meantime, it appears that two of our past examples have been removed. The first one was just north of the tennis courts (north of Colectivo) in the area that older boomers would know as the alternate site. I searched for it on foot thinking that it may have gotten overgrown, but I think that it is gone. Here is a photo from the archive.

and this one along the bottom of the bluff just immediately south of the gardens at Villa Terrace.

Some of the elements from the missing pieces may have been repurposed in the new stealth sculpture. It’s hard to tell but they are very similar in shape and size…and it would make sense to reuse them.

and as always: and if you know who the artist is, I’d like to talk with them. They can remain anonymous if that’s their wish. Or if you see more around town, I’d like to be able to document them…so let me know about them, please: contactaip@anintuitiveperspective.com

AND NOTE: this is the fifth in a series, so please search for stealth and enjoy them all.

July 27, 2023

PSA: FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS, & DISTANT COMRADES at MIAD

Dates: August 8 – September 16, 2023

Location: Frederick Layton Gallery, 273 E. Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

Friends, Neighbors & Distant Comrades: Selections from the Moore Collection of ’80s NYC Art

Curated by Alan Moore and Michael Flanagan, this ambitious show centers on relics from the raucous art movements of the late 20th century in New York City. The collection of artwork reflects the counterculture attitudes and creative approaches of a disparate group of bohemian makers living and working in New York City, especially those who united in a variety of co-ops, collectives and art groups. The exhibition includes paintings, prints, sculptures, multiples and video collected by the Moore family of Milwaukee over several decades.

Alan Moore himself was a participant in the art movements as a critic, artist and historian. He has written and published numerous essays and books about that time, as well as writing about the ‘squatting’ movements in NYC and Europe. His book, “Art Gangs: Protest & Counterculture in New York City” (2011), and recent memoir “Art Worker” (2022) are well-researched looks at the times. He is also an archivist by default, in the process of cataloging, preserving and disseminating this extensive collection.

Events

Artist Talk – Seth Tobocman and Susan Bietila

Thursday, August 24, 2023 | 6 p.m.

MIAD Community Hub, Room 160, 273 E Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

Film Screening of Make Me Famous and talkback with James Cornwell

Thursday, August 31, 2023 | 6 p.m.

MIAD Community Hub, Room 160, 273 E Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

Artist Talk – Robert Goldman (Bobby G) and Andrea Callard

Thursday, September 7, 2023 | 6 p.m.

MIAD Community Hub, Room 160, 273 E Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

Performance by Jack Waters and Peter Cramer

Thursday, September 14, 2023 | 11 a.m.

MIAD Union Auditorium, 273 E Erie St., Milwaukee, WI

Closing Reception and Lecture

Friday, September 15, 2023

5 – 6:30 p.m. | Alan Moore and Dr. Mysoon Rizk lecture

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Closing Reception

Frederick Layton, 273 E Erie St., Milwaukee, WI