David Luhrssen
Art and Entertainment Editor at Shepherd Express
Author, Critic, Historian, Speaker. The original founder and Entertainment Editor of the Shepherd Express, Wisconsin's largest independent weekly newspaper.
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3 days ago |
shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen
Although far from the ocean, Milwaukee was home to the man who invented the self-contained diving suit, Max Gene Nohl. He set a world record on Dec. 1, 1937, in that space suit prototype, reaching the depth of 420 feet … in Lake Michigan? Nohl’s memoir, I Live Underwater, was nearly finished and already submitted to a literary agent when he died in a car crash in 1960.
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3 days ago |
shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen
Sex looked pretty boring in Andy Warhol’s movies. So writes Laurence Leamer, with good reason, describing Couch (1964), one of Warhol’s early Factory productions. Leamer’s latest book, Warhol’s Muses, isn’t focused on Warhol as filmmaker, but the celebrity artist’s motion pictures are a recurring motif. “Making films continued to be an exquisite device for getting Warhol into the homes and lives of the rich,” Leamer continues.
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5 days ago |
shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen
Andrea Bartz never seriously thought she’d become a New York Times bestselling author when she left Milwaukee for Manhattan. She pursued magazine journalism in New York, worked in that field for nearly eight years and found that the job market was shaky. “After I was laid off for the third (or was it fourth?) time, I decided to finish the novel (a whodunit set in the Brooklyn hipster party scene) and try to get it published,” she says.
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1 week ago |
shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen
Diplomat and spy, journalist and psych warfare operative, Robert Bruce Lockhart was an interesting figure on the periphery of world events in the first half of the last century. As a British agent in Russia, he failed to overthrown Lenin after the Bolsheviks seized power. As a member of the Secret Operations Executive, where he crossed paths with James Bond author Ian Fleming, Lockhart did his bit to thwart Hitler’s plans to conquer Europe.
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1 week ago |
shepherdexpress.com | David Luhrssen
Modernism and commercial design? The san serif type font comes immediately to mind, but photography also occupied a central role in the work of Bauhaus instructor Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and other visually daring designers of a century ago. Photography was nothing new when the Bauhaus began, but inserting photos into layouts to jar the viewer from complacency was among the design school’s aims.
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