Taryn Simon in Milwaukee

Do not miss Taryn Simon's lecture at the Milwaukee Art Museum this weekend!
Saturday, November 19th, 1:15p.m. with a book signing to follow.

Listen to curator Lisa Hoestetler's interview with WUWM's Lake Effect here.

Thrilling...

"It’s thrilling to see an excellent exhibition of photographs conceived by a highly credentialed artist and curated by the informed and intelligent Hostetler."

A review of the Taryn Simon exhibition at MAM by By Judith Ann Moriarty of Third Coast Digest.  It is a good read but she is very cynical about the Milwaukee audience's ability to engage intellectually with Simon's work.  We should expect more from Milwaukee and I think that is what curator Lisa Hostetler is doing with grace. Challenging us with art, rather than entertain us... another Impressionism show? Really...

The Taryn Simon show is the kind of exhibition that the Milwaukee Art Museum should pursue. Enough cotton candy already.

Member Preview tomorrow!!!!

I am so excited for tomorrow night at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Be sure to check out the exhibition's website... lot of events in the next few weeks!
The exhibition catalog was reviewed in the New York Times Magazine, read it here.

This is the New York City of Lisa Hostetler’s “Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959,” a liberally illustrated volume out next month from DelMonico Books. The collection of photos, which is on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from Jan. 30 through April 25, presents a city crowded with artists and dreamers toiling in a country that was transitioning out of a mighty war and into the high watermark of the American Century. It is a city, and a nation, of conflicts and aspirations, shadows and brightness, and the long slog from survival to success.

Dawoud Bey in Milwaukee...

Dawoud Bey, Usha, 2006. From the book Class Pictures (Aperture, 2007)

"Class Pictures: Photographs by Dawoud Bey"
Milwauke Art Museum
April 16- July 12, 2009

Bey's talk at the Milwaukee Art Museum tonight was great. In attendance; Mel Trittin, Tara Bogart, Mark Brautigam, Jason Reblando, Lindsay Lochman & Barbara Ciurej , John Shimon & Julie Lindemann, Tom Jones, and many others that I did not get a chance to talk with...

Lisa Hostetler, Curator of Photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum, makes it happen once again!

MAM after dark...

Update:

March 20, Milwaukee Art Museum 5-Midnight....

Fountain of Youth will exhibit (one night only) the results of four week collaborations between MIAD freshman and artists from Milwaukee.

my collaborator Julie Wayer

Come to the Milwaukee Art Museum tonight to see a rear projections on windows in Windhover Hall.

on the wall...

(taken on my iphone)

That's me - the orange square on the wall at the Milwaukee Art Museum... the rotation will only be up through the beginning of December. Its really an honor to be on the same wall as some of my idols... Mr. Callahan in particular. Surreal.

Shimon & Lindemann at MAM

Unmasked and Anonymous: Shimon & Lindemann Consider Portraiture
AUG 14–NOV 30, 2008
Milwaukee Art Museum
Explore nearly 100 photographs, from images by Wisconsin photographers John Shimon and Julie Lindemann to early daguerreotypes to portraits by Alfred Stieglitz, Diane Arbus, Sally Mann, and Larry Clark, among others.

Opening Celebration
THURS, AUG 14, 6 PM
Gallery Talk: 6 PM
Reception with Book Signing: 6:30–8 PM
Meet artists Shimon & Lindemann at this opening event.