. Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
Ever since Sculpture Milwaukee installed artist Carlos Rolón’s “Gild The Lily (Caribbean Hybrid, I, II, III)” in the Chase Tower, 111 E. Wisconsin Ave., in spring 2019, it’s brought a burst of color to the glass box lobby. Recently, the building’s Michigan owners, the Farbman Group, announced that the installation will remain for yet another year.
A number of artworks brought to the city by Sculpture Milwaukee have remained on view beyond the closing of the season-long exhibition or been purchased for permanent installation in Milwaukee, including Robert Indiana’s famous “LOVE” sculpture and Radcliffe Bailey’s “Pensive.”
Back this summer, again lining downtown streets, with guest curators, titled exhibit. By Jeramey Jannene - May 5th, 2021 01:24 pm //end headline wrapper ?>“Blob Monster” by Tony Tasset. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
Sculpture Milwaukee, the free public art exhibit, will return for its fifth season, but with a new twist.
The seasonal exhibit, which lines Wisconsin Avenue through Downtown and now Broadway in the Historic Third Ward, will be installed starting later this month.
Guest curators have been hired, Chicago-based artist
Michelle Grabner. Gates was described as “one of the world’s most influential living artists,” by London art gallery Tate Modern. Grabner is a recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim fellowship and an art professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. She has previously helped curate the annual program. Her piece “Untitled (2017),” featured in the 2017 exhibit, is now permanently installed along the riverwalk in the Histor