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Please sit back and enjoy Episode 82 of Season 6 now of The Terrible Podcast.
Tyanna Buie knows how transformative art can be.
Buie, 32, grew up in and out of the foster care system in Milwaukee and Chicago, and began making art after she entered what she calls the first “safe environment” of her life at age 8, when her aunt took her in. “For the first time,” she says, “I was looking at things and feeling interested in what was going on around...
During her undergrad studies at Western Illinois University and grad school in Madison, Buie began using printmaking and mixed media to examine her family background and the history of African Americans, incorporating themes of loss, memory and incarceration.
Still, a career making art was not something easily within reach. But making it into the 2013 Triennial at Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, which spotlights Wisconsin’s most compelling artists, changed everything for her.
At the show, she exhibited 38” x 50” portraits of people from her past, with the facial features missing or obscured. “To make [my art] more universal, I always think about what information I can leave out. The viewers can fill in the gaps,” she says. Looking at her work, a viewer experiences a matrix of African Americ...
“Incarnation,” a screenprint by 2013 Triennial artist Tyanna Buie.
Buie isn’t the only one to get a boost from the Triennial. Another 2013 artist, Jason Vaughn, has since been featured in the prestigious State of the Art exhibition at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and reviewed in The New York Times and Artforum.
For Wisconsin artists, MMoCA’s Triennial offers a rare opportunity to gain more exposure on the regional and national scene.
But finding good work takes work, and the museum curators have spent the better part of 2016 preparing for this year’s Triennial, which opens Sept. 23. That’s when all the effort pays off, and where museum patrons will get a chance to see our state’s contribution to the cutting edge of contemporary art.
The Triennial began as a biennial in 1978, devoted to offering the best of Wisconsin’s contemporary art. But the labor-intensive effort to find and select work for the show proved too much to take on every two years. It changed to a triennial in 1987. “We do studio visits, use in-house jurors, all the stops are pulled ...
The curators are not only looking to put on a show; they are looking for visual statements that contribute to our culture. And sometimes when the Triennial is done, artists make a big sale — to the museum itself. On average, the museum purchases two to six works from each Wisconsin Triennial for the permanent collectio...
This time around, MMOCA’s museum staff fretted that there might not even be a show. In the months leading up to the entry deadline, the staff waited eagerly for applications to pour in. But by the end of December, there were only 100 submissions. “We came back from the New Year’s holiday and had a complete panic,” says...
“It was a cliffhanger,” says Rick Axsom, the museum’s senior curator. As it turns out, there was no need to worry: In the last 48 hours before the deadline, an additional 493 submissions flooded Slideroom, the museum’s online application site. “I was surprised the application didn’t crash,” says Kolb. The 2016 Triennia...
The curators’ selection process begins a couple of months after the deadline. The four members of the selection committee — Axsom; Kolb; Stephen Fleischman, the museum’s director; and Sheri Castelnuovo, the curator of education — close themselves off in MMoCA’s off-white conference room, located in one of the many long...
No one else, not even Monroe-Kane, is allowed inside.
Armed with a thick stack of Excel spreadsheets, a master list of the artists and their work, they dim the lights and click through images on an overhead projector, up to five stills or video clips per application. They scratch notes on the outside of the spreadsheet’s columns: “Y” for yes, “N” for no, and sometimes som...
Curators went on 95 visits for the 2016 Triennial. They divvied up the artists, and drove in their own cars to all corners of the state, including all the way up north to the state line. Axsom calls these visits “the great corrective.” Because some art looks better in photographs, it’s important to know what the museum...
But the team is looking for more than aesthetic quality or knowledge of art-making techniques; they’re sussing out ideas. The studio visit is an audition of sorts, where a curator takes time (usually about a half hour) to review the work and discuss just what makes an artist tick. “Just to get a visit is huge,” says Ty...
Helen Lee’s glassworks are statements about language and culture.
A curator just can’t get this kind of perspective from a slide.
For her part, Lee remembers being eager to speak with Kolb. “She’s a curator of contemporary art, and that’s really exciting for me because most of the time I’m talking to people in the very specific realm of glass art. It was nice to have her perspective, and get a chance to talk to her about what my work was about in...
Helen Lee’s “OMG “ will be visible from the street.
Also, as an Asian American artist, Lee says it’s important to see her culture and ethnicity represented in what she calls the extremely homogenous environment of the Midwest. “[The Triennial] is a formalization of the fact that I’m a working, living artist in Wisconsin. There hasn’t been anything else I’ve done that ha...
In all, 34 individuals and three pairs of artists made the final cut this year. About one-third are people of color: Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinos. This level of representation is impressive, given that the 2015 census shows Wisconsin’s non-white population at 12 percent. Almost half ...
Amy Fichter’s “Black Tern“ (Chlidonias niger surinamensis), 2015.
The audience is foremost in the curators’ minds. They want the exhibition to please and challenge the viewer. Axsom says the Triennial is not just an introduction to Wisconsin artists; it’s a powerful gateway to contemporary art as it’s developing right now. Unlike, say, the abstract art of the 1950s, today’s contempor...
Passersby on State Street will be able to stand below it, contemplate their own day, as they see the letters quietly glowing there, throughout the night.
Lee will be one of the many Triennial artists on hand to chat with museum-goers for the show’s opening night on Sept. 23. Docent-led Triennial tours will also take place throughout the show, which runs through Jan. 8, 2017.
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The family came back together.
Those who saw that day, and those who have seen it in the eyes of others, gathered Saturday night at Washburn University to mark 50 years since a massive tornado cut a trail of destruction through the heart of Topeka that fateful evening — June 8, 1966.
“Fifty years. It’s like having a family back together,” Bill Kurtis said.
Kurtis is now a legendary American broadcast journalist. But that night, as a fresh face tracking the weather for WIBW, he helped father the Topeka family through the horror that descended from the sky.
“For God’s sake, take cover,” went the emphatic on-air admonition from Kurtis, the warning that decades later still rolls off the lips of Topekans.
Kurtis recounted that memorable utterance, and the destructive event that prompted it, with nearly 700 who turned out for Twist of Fate — a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Topeka tornado produced by The Topeka Capital-Journal.
The event is the capstone of the newspaper’s efforts to cover the anniversary of the tornado. Subscribers also will find a magazine in this edition, and can visit tornado.cjonline.com for even more stories, photos and videos reflecting back.
How Kurtis responded to the tornado launched an illustrious journalism career. Soon after, a Chicago station scooped up Kurtis and he went on to blaze through the biggest stories of those tumultuous times.
From the 1968 Democratic National Convention to the Charles Manson trial and an investigation into how U.S. soldiers were exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam — his lengthy and prized career in many ways traces back to that painful Topeka night.
Kurtis described the haunting initial reports that were rolling into the WIBW newsroom that evening. The dispatches painted a horrifying picture of a destructive tornado headed toward the heart of the city.
“There was no live cameras on the tornado, just the effectiveness of the spoken word. I did feel the pressure build. Now I know what hysteria feels like. I thought, as you heard, about using profanity — I’m good at it — to break through the normal TV talk,” Kurtis said.
After the tornado passed, the devastation became clear. Washburn University was virtually wiped out. Homes destroyed. Trees uprooted and cars thrown every which way.
Sixteen lives were lost — and those gathered at White Concert Hall remembered with a moment of silence. But ask around, and many will tell you they believe the toll would have been higher without Kurtis.
“That was like swearing on TV. It was. People were just mind-boggled he would dare to say that on TV,” Joyce Smith said of Kurtis’ plea.
In the days, weeks, months and, yes, even years after the tornado, Topeka worked to recover. And the city hasn’t forgotten the labor and leadership that guided the path forward. Chuck Wright, who was the mayor when the twister struck, now in his 90s, received a lengthy standing ovation.
Washburn University President Jerry Farley said the tornado turned into an opportunity to build a new and better institution. Today, the campus has three times as many buildings as it did 50 years ago, he said.
“That was a pivotal moment for Washburn, pivotal moment in our history,” Farley said.
Zach Ahrens, publisher of The Topeka Capital-Journal, hailed the leadership that drew the community together in the aftermath.
“You think about where we’re standing right now and you think about what would have been 50 years ago this Wednesday if the leadership of this community would not have done what they did and done it so rapidly,” Ahrens told a reception of about 250 before the main event.
Kurtis said he prefers to think of the tornado as a random act of nature. All the community could do was be prepared, he said, and figure it out — and they did.
Mayor Larry Wolgast declared this coming Wednesday — June 8, 50 years to the day of the tornado — as Bill Kurtis Day. And he presented Kurtis with a medallion of the city.
Ahrens gave Kurtis a press plate from the June 9, 1966, newspaper front page — an artifact that bears witness to the terrible destruction of that day, but also the first efforts to overcome it.
Kurtis waved to the crowd — his Topeka family — as he thanked them and walked away.
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When we were shooting the movie we did together, Woman in Gold, Ryan was about to start his now legendary journey toward becoming Deadpool. That movie’s incredible success was so deserved, and it was brought about by Ryan’s singular commitment, energy and imagination. I loved Deadpool. But I also miss spending time wit...
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WEAU) -- The Chippewa Falls fire and emergency services department is raising funds for a portable ventilator.
So, Micon Cinema in Chippewa Falls is hosting a spaghetti dinner from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. April 17.
Chippewa Falls paramedics and Sparky the fire dog will also be there.
Adults are $7 and kids are $5. You can eat in, or you can carry out. The supper includes spaghetti, salad and breadstick.
London-based Michelin starred Vineet Bhatia.
As is known, not only is the London-based Michelin starred Vineet Bhatia one of India’s most famous chefs, but he’s one of the few who has managed to establish a veritable empire of restaurants across the world. But the dapper Bhatia appears never to rest on his laurels. His latest project, Triyagyoni, will see him att...
Ramachandra Guha with Jo Johnson.
A couple of months ago, Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, made international news when he was spotted shunning his VIP car and protocol and bicycling to an official meeting. This weekend, another international example took place when our own noted historian Ramachandra Guha bumped into Jo Johnson, (who...
JJ Valaya (extreme right) ahead of the launch of his book.
“The first one was on Istanbul and the second one is on Goa,” said Delhi-based fashion designer JJ Valaya, who over the past few years, purely out of personal passion, has been publishing his travel memoirs. This Saturday found him in Goa where his latest ‘The Little Book of Memories, Goa’ would be launched with an exh...
We’d take his word for it.
Nishi Khanna was a much-loved face on the city’s social circuit.
A pall of gloom descended in many well-heeled Mumbai households over the news that Nishi Khanna, wife of hotelier Dinesh Khanna (whose The Club is such a suburban institution) and a much-loved face on the city’s social circuit, had died suddenly, while en route to Vaishno Devi, over the weekend. Among the outpouring of...
Our condolences to Dinesh Khanna and family.
Ford is giving its autonomous cars a challenge not yet faced by Google's self-driving car fleet in Silicon Valley: snow.
Seeing where you are going in the snow is challenging for humans but more so for computers, which lack intuition and rely solely on their digital inputs. If the radar and laser imaging sensors can't see lane markings or road signs, how's a car to figure out where it is?
Ford's solution, which it calls "snowtonomy," relies on high-definition maps that can fill in the gaps when road markings can't be seen.
The car takes all the visual cues it can from the laser-imaging LIDAR sensors on the roof and matches that up to the pre-loaded map, to get an accurate fix on its location. If the system is accurate enough, and Ford says it is, the car is able to keep to its lane even when the lane markings are covered in snow or slush...
"This testing will help us take fully autonomous vehicles to the ultimate level," said Raj Nair, Ford's chief technical officer, at a news conference on Monday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Ford has been testing this out at Mcity, a fake city built by the University of Michigan for testing autonomous cars. The location near Detroit means there's plenty of opportunity for testing in the snow.
As car makers gain more and more miles of data about autonomous driving, they are looking for new challenges. After all, driving straight and keeping into between lane markings is a relatively easy task in the world of self-driving.
Google, which has covered the most ground in autonomous vehicle testing, doesn't often face hostile weather in Silicon Valley, but a recent break in California's multi-year drought has provided a chance to test out its cars in the rain.
"Our laser sensors are able to detect rain, so we have to teach our cars to see through the raindrops and clouds of exhaust on cold mornings, and continue to properly detect objects," the company said last week.
Ford is throwing an increasing amount of resources behind its self-driving car research. Last week at CES in Las Vegas, the company said it plans to triple the number of cars it has on city streets and test tracks to research autonomous driving technology.
The expansion will see around 30 test vehicles on the streets and test tracks of Michigan, Silicon Valley and in Arizona.
Mental health is a difficult problem to tackle. When someone breaks an arm playing pickup football, they have an unavoidable physical ailment that requires immediate attention. Mental illnesses are easier to ignore because their symptoms are less obvious.
People are often hesitant to seek help for mental health problems, because there are unjustified stigmas attached to such disorders. Going to a psychiatrist or psychologist is sometimes thought to be an admission of insanity. Far from it, the first step toward fixing a problem is admitting that a problem exists. Those ...
We applaud Student Health Services for sending out emails reminding some students about the psychiatric help that the center offers. But the emails largely missed their mark. By only reaching out to these select students, SHS missed an extra chance to contact students who might fall through the woodwork. Instead of sen...
At the very least, the university should have sent the email to students who have a family history of mental illness. Many studies have proved that mental conditions within a family carry the risk of being passed on. Schizophrenia, for example, affects 1 percent of the general population. But it affects 9 to 15 percent...
But even more than just going to the potential mental health ‘risks,’ the SHS email should have been sent to the entire university. No harm can come from reminding students about the free services that are available at BU.
Though an email is just a subtle reminder about possible assistance, it is better than doing nothing. There may have been a variety of reasons explaining why students didn’t check the box on the initial form, but if they are checking their inbox, feeling even slightly blue or mentally unwell, and see that SHS is there ...
This article appears courtesy of sister publication Irish America magazine, which recently published its annual Health & Wellness issue and will celebrate the Irish America Healthcare & Life Sciences Awards on September 25.
Over 210,000 Irish enlisted in the British Army during World War I. Among them were doctors such as my grandfather who tended to the wounded and saw the brutality of modern warfare up close.
“A British advance has just begun, and the surgeons of a Divisional Collecting Station near the Somme are awaiting the arrival of the first laden stretcher-bearers. In a few minutes the three officers will be at work, perhaps for twenty-four hours on end. At one Casualty Clearing Station a distinguished surgeon perform...
We didn’t talk much about my grandfather (pictured center in the sketch above) when I was growing up. He had been a doctor in the British Army, decorated for his service in the First World War, but the bitter War of Independence had left its mark on Ireland, and while many families had relatives in the British Army who...
His name was William “Bill” Egan and he was born on September 30, 1881, into a farming family outside the town of Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, the youngest of three sons of Anne Duggan and Maurice Egan.
He was educated at St. Vincent’s College, Castleknock; Queens College, Cork, and the Royal University of Ireland, Dublin.
After graduating from medical school in 1906, he worked as a resident surgeon at the Waterford Infirmary for 12 months before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps and embarking on his first tour of India. Over the next several years, he served in Rawalpindi, Ferozepore, Multan, Rangoon, and Mandalay. In 1912, he return...
The First World War began on July 28, 1914, and two weeks later, my grandfather was on active service in France and Belgium. He was captured at Landrecies on October, 18, 1914 and interned at Sennelager Prisoner of War Camp in Germany. Following his release on June 26, 1915 (in what I can only guess was a prisoner exch...
While his Army records afford us a timeline on his service, they don’t reveal much about his experiences on the battlefield. Thankfully, the surviving sketch of him at the Battle of the Somme, and the accompanying caption by the artist Muirhead Bone (printed at the beginning of this piece), help to fill in the gaps. Th...
When I was a child a copy of this sketch hung in my parents’ bedroom, but I didn’t know its importance. Now, as we commemorate the centenary of the Great War, it has taken on new significance for me.
At the Battle of the Somme alone, 1,000,000 were wounded or killed. But my grandfather didn’t die in the war.
Incredibly, he survived the battlefields, malaria, “a whiff of gas,” and a German prisoner of war camp, only to die in 1929, from a ruptured spleen as a result of a fall.

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