Art
Meow Wolf’s Exciting Model for Engaging with Art
As an artist and maker, as well as a writer and someone who understands the deeply rooted desire to touch the art, I was heartened to discover The House of Eternal Return.
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
Celebrating Outstanding Glass Artists Who Happen to Be Women
Fired Up: Contemporary Glass by Women Artists at the Toledo Museum of Art is an outstanding show, but there is little to convince me that “female glass art” occupies a necessarily separate category than “glass art.”
Art
Tramp Art’s Mysterious Origins and Exquisite Crafts
A massive survey of tramp art at the Museum of International Folk Art delves into the unexplored history of astonishingly elaborate creations.
Art
From the Functional to Found, an Artist Couple’s Experiments in Clay
Whereas Virginia Rose Torrence embeds fruit rinds into her mosaics, Henry James Haver Crissman sells functional pottery.
In Brief
Nightmare Date Ends with Badly Damaged Warhols
What better way to say, “I’m into you,” than by drunkenly tearing paintings off the wall and throwing two expensive abstract sculptures across a room?
Art
10 Art-Related Movies and Shows to Stream Online
Here are some highlights from this year in art-related film and television.
News
An Artist Accidentally Discovers E. Coli Outbreak in Michigan Waters
In the course of pursuing one of her art projects, Bridget Quinn may have thwarted a potential public health crisis.
Art
A Cartoonist’s Darkly Magical and Autobiographical Work
Cartoonist Laura Park shares her fascination with medical oddities, lesser-known murderers, morbid Victoriana, and more.
Interview
Quiet Company and a Crackling Fire in an Artist-Made Yule Log Video
Artist Lauren LoGuidice shares why she felt inspired to create her 2.5-hour long video "Yule Log With Friends."
Art
Monumental Domestic Scenes Address Race and History in Detroit
Jason Yates's interdisciplinary project deploys kitsch and abstraction to grapple with the social legacies and the lived present of Detroit.
Art
An Artist Takes Issue with a Brand's Appropriation of Black Detroit
With "Rethink Shinola," scholar and artist Rebekah Modrak has created a biting, minutely researched critique of an appropriative re-branding of Detroit.
Interview
A Photographer Recreates Maritime Scenes from the World Wars
Thomas Bangsted shares how he reconstructs moments from the past with present-day photography.