News
The World's Most Instagrammed Museums, from the Louvre to the Museum of Ice Cream
According to Instagram's own statistics, the Louvre was the seventh-most 'grammed place in the world and topped the museum list yet again.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Art
Conceptual Art You Can Play With
Andy Malone's games deliver conceptual ideas as a sneaky side effect of playing with them.
Art
How Art Has Framed Our Celebrity Worship
Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art explores the imagery of celebrity culture and likens it to a religious experience.
Art
In an Indiana Town, a Treasure Trove of Modernist Design
"Exhibit Columbus" celebrates the legacies of the architects and designers who filled the town with private and civic works before going on to be some of Modernism's biggest names.
History
The Disturbing Force of Early Color Photos of Nazi Camps
12 Nazi Concentration Camps is a body of work by James Friedman who, in the early '80s, took the largely unprecedented step of documenting Nazi camps in color photography.
In Brief
A Mysterious Letter Claims a Long-Lost Baroque Painting Is in LA
The letter, received some two years ago by curator of Latin American art at LACMA, was penned in an odd, first-person style, speaking as the painting itself.
Art
Discovering the Treasures of an Artist from the Cass Corridor Movement
Paul Schwarz is not readily associated with the Cass Corridor movement — one of the only major 20th-century fine art trends to emerge from Detroit — but he should be.
Art
Calling Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest a "Rebellion," a Museum Takes a Strong Stand
In an exhibition commemorating the uprising, the Charles H. Wright Museum takes a political stance in how it describes that history.
Art
An Uncanny, Carnivalesque Exhibition that Tricks and Tantalizes
In Jason J. Ferguson's One-man (freak) show, you encounter one uncanny moment after the next.
Art
Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency.
Art
After Purging Her Possessions, an Artist Paints What Remained
In Possession, Jaye Schlesinger displays the small-scale oil paintings she made for each of the 380 objects she decided to keep.
Art
From Swiss Cheese to DNA, the Inventions of a Seminal Playground Designer
The Art of Play explores the career of Jim Miller-Melburg, who holds a place — albeit an often nameless one — in our childhood memories.