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Kevin Lynch with his 2017 Milwaukee Press Club award for best critical review of the arts, for a Culture Currents review. Photo by Ann K. Peterson<\/em><\/p>\n

For this night, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. For me, The Milwaukee Press Club’s Journalism Awards Dinner Friday evening summoned memories, and gratitude, but also pressing urgency about the media’s current role in the nation’s often-troubling affairs and crises.<\/p>\n

Recent Pulitzer Prize-winner Meghan Twohey of The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0spoke, upon\u00a0 receiving the press club’s Sacred Cat award, in honor of her extraordinary investigative work with Jodi Kantor. The Times<\/em> duo broke the Harvey Weinstein sex abuse scandal which triggered the extraordinary “#Me Too” movement last year. Twohey and Kantor helped to expose sexual harassment and abuse throughout various major patriarchal systems of power.<\/p>\n

More on Twohey and her work shortly.<\/p>\n

This blog received the press club’s gold prize for best critical review of the arts for 2017 in Wisconsin journalism.\u00a0The top prize in this category went to a Culture Currents<\/em> review titled “Adolph Rosenblatt: A Great Eye, Gifted Hands, and a Huge Heart.”<\/p>\n

Last August, I reviewed a retrospective exhibit of an\u00a0acclaimed and\u00a0<\/span>beloved Milwaukee artist and educator,\u00a0\u00a0Adolph Rosenblatt, at the Jewish Museum of Milwaukee. The exhibit beautifully chronicled the late Rosenblatt’s artistic output, dominated by handcrafted figurative clay sculpture of unassuming wit and insight, which captured life in Milwaukee with the grainy fingerprint of truth. The show also revealed his lesser-known work addressing important social issues, including a precursor of the #MeToo movement, the Anita Hill case vs. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. <\/span><\/p>\n

I had studied with Rosenblatt as an undergraduate art student at UW-Milwaukee, about the time when he transitioned from predominantly painting to his trademark sculpture.\u00a0It was a pleasure to remember and write about this genial and knowing artist. Here’s is my review:<\/span><\/p>\n

Adolph Rosenblatt: A great eye, gifted hands and a huge heart<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n