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The Milwaukee Art Museum has outdone themselves with their current summer exhibit, Treasures from the Forbidden City. The museum is only one of three in the world that is showcasing over ninety objects from the Qianlong Garden and the Forbidden City in Beijing. Most of what is shown has never before been seen by the public.

The direction staff has been promoting this Milwaukee Art Museum exhibit throughout the north side of Chicago, in China Town and at special events like the Dragon Boat Races and Chinatown Summer Fair.

The exhibit The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City will be at the Milwaukee Art Museum through September 11, 2011. Please visit mam.org for exhibit and museum information.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is celebrating Wisconsin’s own and America’s greatest architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The exhibit, Organic Architecture for the 21st Century, looks back at Wright’s life and influence. Walk through the man’s plans for suburban communities and American System-Built Homes, drawings, models, photographs, videos, furniture, and more. The MAM is a beautiful place to visit, holding over 1,500 pieces of art and lays on the shores of Lake Michigan.

The direction staff has been hitting the north shore suburbs and communities heavily influenced by Wright including Oak Park and Hyde Park.

Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century runs until May 15 at the Baker/Rowland Galleries in the Milwaukee Art Museum. Please visit mam.org for tickets and more information.

In this exhibition, contemporary Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates Jr. explores the history and legacy of Dave Drake aka Dave the Potter. A slave in antebellum South Carolina, Drake produced stoneware pottery and famously adorned his pots with poetic couplets. Though art historians have explored Drake’s career in detail, Gates is the first artist to reinterpret his work and to make it pertinent to a broader set of concerns about the place of labor and craft in present-day America.

We worked with MAM last month promoting their Raphael: The Woman with the Veil, and ae excited about their latest exhibit which will be in place throughout the summer. Be sure to check it out.

Theaster Gates’ exhibition will be at the Milwaukee Art Museum through August 1st. Please visit www.mam.org for more information.

Rahael’s La Donna Velata (The Woman with the Veil) makes it’s way to Milwaukee for a very rare appearance. Responding to Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Raphael developed in this portrait his own idea of female beauty and deportment. Art historians have variously identified this beautiful woman as a patron’s bride and as the artist’s lover and muse; she appears as a model in many of Raphael’s most important works.

It’s been a while since we have worked with our friends at the Milwaukee Art Museum, so needless to say, we are very excited to be part of this project. We’ll be distributing promotional materials in Chicago in support of the exhibit. Be sure to take advantage, and check out Raphael’s masterpiece while you can.

Raphael: The Woman with the Veil is at the Milwaukee Art Museum through June 6th. Please visit www.mam.org for more information.

Not many people have heard of Jan Lievens.  An art prodigy, Lievens was popular during his early life. but became overshadowed by Rembrandt throughout history. Fortunately, Lievens early work is now being recognized, and the Milwaukee Art Museum is proud to unveil it’s latest exhibit. Presenting an overview of the full range of Lievens’ career, it will include almost 50 of his finest paintings.  

Jan Lievens exhibit will be at the Milwaukee Art Museum February 7th-April 26th.

At direction, we work with many local businesses, venues, and theaters in Chicago.  But, we are a nationwide company, so our business reaches all across the country. Currently, we’re working with some of our neighbors to the north in Wisconsin.  From now until early next year, the Milwaukee Art Museum presents Act/React, an interactive art event that focuses on “motion-dependant” art.  We always enjoy working with unique artistic events, and are very excited to be a part of this exhibit.  Milwaukee Art Museum wishes to expand it’s promotional reach to the northshore suburbs of Chicago, and we feel confident that we can help them in accomplishing this goal. Keep an eye out for the brochures, which will be distributing at various retail outlets.

Act/React Interactive Art is at the Milwaukee Art Museum until January 11th.