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
With Sukkot, the age-old Jewish celebration of life and bounty coinciding with this year’s Detroit Design Festival, the sukkahs on display in nearby Capitol Park are quite innovative and tasteful.
Art
As part of FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, artists have transformed the Oberlin College campus with sculptural reflections on architecture.
Art
Anne Gilman's super-sized scrolls feel like hand-drawn maps, perhaps charting a journey through a metaphysical region.
Opinion
In Elon Musk's universe, anyone can go into space.
Interview
Following her initial trip, Randy Goodman returned to Iran multiple times, shifting her focus to the many women she encountered.
Art
Laura De Becker's first major exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art puts its expansive historical African art holdings in conversation with contemporary art of the continent.
Art
Both Allie McGhee, a painter, and Carole Harris, a fiber artist, are lifelong Detroiters, and both have established a signature aesthetic akin to visual jazz.
Art
Michael Takeo Magruder's "Lamentation for the Forsaken" at Christ Church Cranbrook creates a resonance between the suffering of Christ and that of Syrian refugees.
Art
“We’ve had Civil Rights, and a lot of people we idealize, especially in the Black community, we treat them like they are gods,” says the artist Tylonn Sawyer.
Art
The World of Charles and Ray Eames, which presents some 400 artifacts, is the first major survey of the Eameses since the 1990s.
Art
Featuring an alter ego named Jonny Strange and "a dragon called Raoul", a retrospective of Jon Strand's mind-boggling work is on view at Wayne State University Art Gallery.
Interview
When artist Aaron Fowler discovered he might have been a father, he created a powerful series of works about how it's "okay to not be a perfect person."