Books
A Modernist Sculptor Finds a Language in the Canadian Landscape
Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She is primarily concerned with the experiences of making and engaging with art, and researching the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
Art
A Fashion Duo Draws Inspiration from Detroit’s Labor History
For Labor of Love, the Toledos created a series of breathtaking garments, sculptures, paintings, and drawings inspired by various works in the Detroit Institute of Arts' world-class collection.
Art
The Potential of Participatory Museum Exhibits
In a colorful group show at CAC Cincinnati, artists Calcagno Cullen, Amanda Curreri, and Lindsey Whittle invite visitors to join in their creative processes.
Art
An Artist Builds His Vision of Black Prosperity
Azikiwe Mohammed's kitschy, immersive installation presents weighty themes of Black identity.
Art
Strangely Unsettling Photographs of Windowless Houses
An artist duo's digitally doctored images of houses without windows prompt reflections on the struggle to maintain privacy in an age of oversharing.
In Brief
Helvetica Gets Its First Redesign in Three Decades
The font has been the subject of a feature-length documentary and 50-year retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Performance
A Healing Performance in the Face of Danger and Trauma
You Are Next to Me is a dense and complicated ongoing work that manages to be funny, human, and spontaneous, about interaction and healing in the face of very present danger and trauma.
Books
A Book of Necessary, Speculative Narratives for the Anonymous Black Women of History
Saidiya Hartman's new book of speculative fiction unearths the beauty in the wayward, the fiction in the facts, and the thriving existence in the face of a blanked out history.
Art
The Legacy of Dan Robbins, the Man Who Taught Us to Paint by Numbers
When Dan Robbins passed away last week at the age of 93, many people paused to remember a man who made painting fun for the masses.
In Brief
The Gun that May Have Killed Vincent van Gogh Will Go to Auction
A 7mm pocket revolver found in a field in the northern French village of Auvers-sur-Oise — where Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself in the chest on July 27, 1890 — will go up for auction in Paris.
Art
The Colors of the Ancient Mediterranean in Vivid Dimensions
A new exhibition at University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology dives deep into the material and application of pigment and in doing so highlights a colorful, international history.
Satire
Art Not Oil Demands Museums Stop Showing Oil Paintings
"The more these museums continue to show oil paintings, the more they glorify a toxic commodity," said a spokesperson.