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We Have a Great New Location! The show will now be held at the Waukesha County Expo Center located at: 1000 Northview Road Waukesha, Wisconsin 53188. Easy Directions: Take I-94 Exit #294 (Hwy. J) and Go South 1 mile to Northview Road. Turn West on Northview and Drive ½ mile to Show Entrance on the Right. Show Dates: Friday, May 1st, 2015 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday, May 2nd, 2015 10:00 am – 5:00 pm...

Hannah, Gertrude, Alice, Betty, Nadine, Golda, Susan, Claude, Nancy, Grace, Diane..... is a series of thirty four portraits by London-based painter Chantal Joffe, which will hang salon-style throughout the lobby of the Jewish Museum. Joffe’s style is direct and gestural. These are not exact or “true” depictions but charged with the artist's technical, conceptual, and emotional responses. Joffe is ...

Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television is the first exhibition to explore how avant-garde art influenced and shaped the look and content of network television in its formative years, from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. During this period, the pioneers of American television—many of them young, Jewish, and aesthetically adventurous—had adopted modernism as a source...

The exhibition presents eighty-seven works created between 2007 and 2014, including Muholi’s Faces and Phases portrait series, which uses firsthand accounts to speak to the experience of living in a country that constitutionally protects the rights of LGBTI people but often fails to defend them from targeted violence. Location: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor Closed Monday ...

This exhibition shows the renowned Vermont quilt artist, Judy B. Dales finds limitless inspiration in the effects of sinuous curving lines, as seen in her unique contemporary work, now on view in the Hat and Fragrance Gallery through October 31. Dales’ mesmerizing quilts celebrate the art of slow-stitch quilt making, craftsmanship and feminism through the use of form, color, texture and abstract d...

Rings are one of the oldest and most familiar forms of bodily adornment. Worn by both women and men, they serve as declarations of status, markers of significant life events, expressions of identity, and protective talismans. They also have been a source of boundless invention for goldsmiths and their clients. Exploring the making of rings from raw material to finished product and from goldsmith t...

The museum is presenting these groundbreaking artworks that document a key period in the twentieth century. The prospect of seeing more parts of the Dodge Collection, as the Zimmerli periodically reinstalls the two floors of these generous galleries, ought to excite anyone interesting in appreciating the meaningful ways in which history and art can clash. The museum is closed Mondays, major holida...

Prior to his breakthrough into the medium of fluorescent light, Dan Flavin completed a series of eight works known as “icons” between 1961 and 1964. Each icon occupies a box-like construction with a painted surface and attached light fixtures, possessing a “hierarchical relationship of electric light over, under, against and with a square-fronted structure of paint ‘light.’”1 While grappling with ...

Between 1916 and 1918, Henry Clay Frick purchased several important pieces of porcelain to decorate his New York mansion. Made at Sèvres, the preeminent eighteenth-century French porcelain manufactory, the objects — including vases, potpourris, jugs and basins, plates, a tea service, and a table — were displayed throughout Frick’s residence.. The exhibition presents a new perspective on the collec...

Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today considers the important contributions of women to modernism in postwar visual culture. In the 1950s and 60s, an era when painting, sculpture, and architecture were dominated by men, women had considerable impact in alternative materials such as textiles, ceramics, and metals. Thursday and Friday from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm Closed Monday...