Hi all the entire way to work I had a riot just listening to the local radio station discuss the so called SUCCESS of this recent Martinifest in at the Milwaukee Art Museam. Let see what the rest of the state would like to say about this event. :lol:
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"It was crazy. People were shoving people over. People were getting sick, screaming, shouting, messing with the artwork. "
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- Kathleen Christians,39, attendee
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Martinifest leaves art museum shaken and stirred
Booking procedures reviewed after wild rental event; 2 artworks being examined
By MARY LOUISE SCHUMACHER
mschumacher@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Feb. 27, 2006
The glistening white Santiago Calatrava addition has made the Milwaukee Art Museum one of the city's classiest social addresses. But a recent martini fete held there turned into an overcrowded, drunken affair. Some unruly guests accosted artworks, which have been taken off display for a checkup.
People threw up, passed out, were injured, got into altercations and climbed onto sculptures at Martinifest, a semi- formal event organized by Clear Channel Radio and held at the museum Feb. 11, according to several people who attended or worked at the event.
"Hindsight is 20-20 . . . it was probably too cheap," Kerry Wolfe, a local programming director for Clear Channel, said of the event's premise - unlimited martinis for $30.
Intro paragraphs from the Feb. 28, 2006 editions of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (the rest cut out by 'keith' so we don't get sued by the venerable newspaper monopoly, er, company)
