ÖREBRO, Sweden — Festivals and biennials are typically the purview of curators and organizers, backed by endowed institutions.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She has shown work in New York, Seattle, Columbus and Toledo, OH, and Detroit — including at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research in the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
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Dancing Out Our Inner Demons
For dancers, the body is a surrogate for concepts and a tool for arranging shapes in the air.
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Envisioning Detroit as a Postindustrial Boomtown
DETROIT — Detroit Boom City is an ambitious installation orchestrated by Atlanta’s Dashboard Co-Op by invitation of the Ford Motor Company Fund, featuring some of Detroit’s most innovative artists.
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Unpacking the Contradictions in Quiet Ceramic Tableaus
DETROIT — How many points of conflict can be contained in a delicate arrangement of ceramic objects?
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In Detroit, an Arts Festival Crosses Borders
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Borders are a slippery concept, one that seems to exist only in theory most of the time, but occasionally manifests in reality dramatically.
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The Surprisingly Improvisational Sounds of Automatic Music
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Musicians throughout the ages have wrestled with the question of creative control, and in our modern age, some have found an answer in technology.
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Building Monuments Amid Detroit’s Modern Day Ruins
DETROIT — It is easy, when considering the staggering legacy of human history, to think about it as a series of things that took place in the past.
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Art X Detroit Lives Up to the City’s Vibrant Cultural Life
DETROIT — Trying to notice the impact of the Kresge Foundation on the arts in Detroit is like a fish trying to notice water.
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Women’s Rage: A Conversation with the Creator of ‘Bitch Planet’
A comic book industry veteran for the last decade, Kelly Sue DeConnick first earned her chops adapting manga to English.
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An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures
DETROIT — How often is an artist willing to introduce an element of chance to her solo gallery opening?
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One City, Two Experimental Plays, a Whole Lot of Creative Women
Last week was an outstanding one for experimental theater in Detroit.
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A Detroit Artist Specializing in Gooey Abstraction and Concrete Social Change
DETROIT — While it takes more than a few encounters with Jonathan Rajewski to begin to unravel a sense of him as a person, one instinctively and immediately recognizes his art as the work of a virtuoso.