Showing posts with label Mike Brenner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Brenner. Show all posts
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Help My Friend Mike Brenner Kickstart Milwaukee's Next Great Brewery!
Monday, July 25, 2011
To Reach Simple Life of Summer Camp, Lining Up for Private Jets
from: Mike Brenner
www.nytimes.com
Even as the economy limps along, more of the nation’s wealthier families are cutting out the car ride and chartering planes to fly to summer camps.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Putting Ai Weiwei in perspective, the MAM panel - Art City
From: Mary-Louise Schumacher
Putting Ai Weiwei in perspective, the MAM panel - Art City
It was telling that it was the political science professor and not the art experts who best articulated the meaning of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's detention at a recent panel discussion at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
See also:
See also:
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- China and Taiwan Reunite Painting
- Ai Weiwei, Freed Chinese Artist, Said to Be Back a...
- Ai Weiwei accepts visiting lecturer position at Be...
- Ai Weiwei's sister gives details of his confinemen...
- seems like Berlin is the place to be (at least for...
- more "dissidents" heading to Germany...
- two very smart, very perceptive, but opposing view...
- more on Milwaukee's Summer of China from Thirdcoas...
- contemporary Chinese art lecture TONIGHT!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Day 76: Yesterday I Cut My Hair - Art City
A few weeks ago, local artist and art agitator Mike Brenner shaved his head to look like that of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. What follows is Ai's blog post the day he got that odd do, with two tufts of hair on either side of his head.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Mary-Louise Schumacher on the Milwaukee Art Museum's "Summer of China"
Review: 'The Emperor's Private Paradise' at the Milwaukee Art Museum - Art CityThe Qianlong emperor, aside from being the longest ruling emperor in China’s history, was also the most painted. He was famously image conscious with fleets of artists who were his era’s equivalent of handlers and spin doctors. He commissioned paintings of himself mounted on a horse...
protesters at Milwaukee Art Museum's "Summer of China"
At least the Milwaukee Art Museum had a few protesters, but so few that it seems a little sad...
China Exhibitions At Milwaukee Art Museum Spark Controversy -- from WISN
China Exhibitions At Milwaukee Art Museum Spark Controversy -- from WISN www.wisn.com
MILWAUKEE -- A group of demonstrators wants the Milwaukee Art Museum to take a stand against alleged artistic suppression in China in light of the museum's new exhibitions of Chinese art. Friday, June 10, 2011.
Artists to hold 'sing in' in solidarity with detained Ai Weiwei
Artists to hold 'sing in' in solidarity with detained Ai Weiwei today - Art Citywww.jsonline.com
Local artist Peggy Hong has invited a few hundred local artists to "sing for solidarity" with detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei today at the Milwwaukee Art Museum.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Going Bald For Ai Weiwei
Going Bald For Ai Weiwei: A Righteous Head-Shaving Performance Sharpens Debate Over Milwaukee Museum
www.artinfo.comMike Brenner's action provoked the (ineffectual) intervention of museum guards, and has sparked a local furor.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
video: Milwaukee artist sticking it to the Chinese government!
Watch Mike Brenner stick it to the Chinese government by shaving off his hair in front of the art mu
www.avclub.comThe local rabble-rouser shows his solidarity with imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Milwaukee bad boy artist shaves head for Ai Weiwei
www.jsonline.com
Local artist and art agitator Mike Brenner stood in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum and shaved his head to look like that of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei as the signature wings of the Calatrava addition rose behind him this morning.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Running a Gallery on a Shoestring Budget
Running a Gallery on a Shoestring Budget
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