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.
In Brief
The study, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, found that arts worker salaries had barely grown at all while smaller organizations in particularly struggled to offer their employees benefits.
Art
Matthew Angelo Harrison has designed and built a machine that takes his ongoing work with abstraction in a different direction.
News
Koen Vanmechelen has spent the last 20 years developing a “Cosmopolitan Chicken,” and since 2016 has been involved in a project to breed more versatile poultry at a facility in Addis Ababa.
News
Twelve artists who created murals at the behest of nonprofit Paint Memphis, Inc. are suing the city for buffing five of the murals and threatening to erase three more.
News
The study reveals that the black and minority ethnic people comprise only 2.7% of the museum, gallery, and library workforce in the UK.
Interview
Two of Carolina Falkholt's murals of giant phalluses have been painted over recently, but she sees them as catalysts for important and difficult conversations.
Art
Allan Rubin transforms his artistic heroes into three-dimensional sculptures made from upcycled tin cans.
Film
Nicole MacDonald’s Last Days of Chinatown hones in on the displacement of the poor and “unimportant” people to accommodate the march of progress in Detroit.
Art
Over the past 40 years Michele Oka Doner has been developing her own "personal hieroglyphics" shaped out of clay to illustrate how language comes from nature.
Art
An exhibition in Detroit's Mexicantown takes an in-depth look at the black velvet painting tradition in Chicano communities, from renderings of a Nahuatl legend to portraits of Elvis and Zapata.
News
The billboard in Pittsburgh was initially removed due to "objections to the content," but a recent wave of support suggests the sign could go back up.
News
An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: "The rosy cheeks on the model ... And not the cheeks on the face.”