MENOMONEE FALLS, WIS.- Today Kohl’s Department Stores announced a more than $2.7 million donation over three years to the Milwaukee Art Museum that will continue the successful Kohl’s Art Generation program launched in 2008 as well as create new progra…
Masterworks of N. C. Earthenware Comes to The Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The first major North Carolina earthenware survey completed in the United States, Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware, opens at the Milwaukee Art Museum on Thursday, September 2, 2010, and runs through Monday, January…
Daniel M. Finley Appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of the Autry National Center
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Board of Trustees of the Autry National Center announced the appointment of Daniel M. Finley as the institution’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Finley will succeed John Gray, who led the Autry for more than a…
Milwaukee Museum to Host Mummies Exhibition
MILWAUKEE (AP).- The largest traveling exhibition of mummies ever assembled is coming to Milwaukee later this year. “Mummies of the World” will be at the Milwaukee Public Museum from Dec. 17 through May 30. It features a collection of 150 real human …
Sam Francis Foundation Gifts Over 500 Prints to Milwaukee Art Museum
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Sam Francis Foundation has donated over 500 prints to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Sam Francis (1923–1994) was an American painter and printmaker who used a variety of colors and techniques to experiment with both surrealism and …