{"id":2216157,"date":"2025-12-30T01:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2216157"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:17:17","slug":"the-years-most-popular-arts-entertainment-stories-urban-milwaukee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-years-most-popular-arts-entertainment-stories-urban-milwaukee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year\u2019s Most Popular Arts & Entertainment Stories \u00bb Urban Milwaukee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Top 10 of 2025<\/p>\n

Many were insider stories about key institutions in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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You can\u2019t have an arts and entertainment scene without money. And without good leadership.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to our most popular 10 A &E stories of the year. Often they were about leadership, good or bad, and money or lack of it. Here are the stories that had the most readership in 2026.<\/p>\n

And Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

10. Murphy\u2019s Law: The Remarkable Rise of MOWA<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Museum of Wisconsin Art. Photo courtesy of MOWA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

9. Marcus Center Problem Has Been 40 Years in the Making<\/a><\/h3>\n
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1001 N. Water St. in April 2025. Photo by Urban Milwaukee staff.<\/p>\n

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8. Murphy\u2019s Law: Don Smiley\u2019s 12 Years of Lavish Pay<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Don Smiley speaks to the media. Photo taken December 8th, 2016 by Michael Horne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

7. Murphy\u2019s Law: The Last Paycheck of Don Smiley<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Don Smiley speaks to the media. Photo taken December 8th, 2016 by Michael Horne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

6. Murphy\u2019s Law: San Felippo Served As President of Summerfest\u2019s Private Company<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Ron San Felippo. Photo by Michael Horne.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

5. Museum Staff a Casualty of Villa Terrace, Charles Allis Privatization<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Charles Allis Art Museum (top) Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum (bottom).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

4. Murphy\u2019s Law: Bronzeville Center for Arts Loses Its Main Donor<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Conceptual, non-site-specific rendering of Bronzeville Center for the Arts. Rendering by Wilson & Ford Design Studios.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

3. Murphy\u2019s Law: Betty Brinn Museum Must Move<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo courtesy of the Betty Brinn Children\u2019s Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2. Murphy\u2019s Law: Trouble at Milwaukee Art Museum?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Milwaukee Art Museum. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1. Murphy\u2019s Law: Secret Donor to Milwaukee Artist Resource Network Revealed<\/a><\/h3>\n
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MARN Art + Culture Hub 91 N. Broadway. Photo by Sophie Bolich.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source urbanmilwaukee.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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