by Paul Krainak | Jun 15, 2025 | Blog
Milwaukee artists and entrepreneurs Shane McAdams and Shane Walsh began planning last week’s Door County Contemporary Art Fair some four years ago while teaching at the Peninsula School of Art, the eventual site of the fair. McAdams recalled, “We ran it by the...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 2, 2025 | Blog
Debra Kerr, Director of Chicago’s newly christened “Intuit Art Museum,” contends enthusiastically that “art can be made anywhere by anyone.” If so, it raises a question about criteria for collecting and exhibiting. Surely there are formal patterns and content...
by Paul Krainak | May 1, 2025 | Blog
Art language and its framing is an asymmetric consolidation between principal hemispheric archives and their constituent artists and crafters. Place introduces alternative possibilities for visual fluency and it sanctions regional myths, schedules, and texts. Official...
by Paul Krainak | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog
Craig Drennen modifies critical modern paint protocol with some serious extracurricular counter-encryption at “The Suburban” in Milwaukee. He composes fresh content for the stylistic offspring of 20th century painting by tapping his memory and our collective history...
by Paul Krainak | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog
The Museum of Contemporary Art is currently exhibiting Dieter Roth’s “Balabild 5” in the McCormick Tribune Gallery. The assemblage/installation is a remarkable example of radical midcentury anti-aesthetics by one of the century’s phenomenal Neo-Dada polymaths, tat...
