One Less Alternative; Lesson of Km Art: Gallery's Doors; Often On Verge; of Swinging Shut

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For the nearly eight years it's been open, Kent Mueller has fancied this motto for his art gallery: "Difficult to find, impossible to park."

After Friday it will simply be impossible to find.

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One Less Alternative; Lesson of Km Art: Gallery's Doors; Often On Verge; of Swinging Shut

KM art, one of the Milwaukee's longest-running alternative art spaces, is going to shutter its little nook in the world down by the train tracks at 226 S. 1st St. in Walker's Point.

"There's a list of reasons to stay open and a list of reasons to close," says Mueller, who has shown contemporary and self-taught artists, mostly from this area. "The list of reasons to close is finally longer than the reasons to stay open."

Money issues top Mueller's time-to-give-it-up list.

His rent has steadily crept up, art sales have always been sporadic and he's in hock, particularly to the artists he's exhibited.

Still, KM art lasted lon...

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