Art
Beverly Buchanan's Shack Sculptures Feel at Home in Detroit
An exhibition at David Klein Gallery brings together Buchanan's evocative shack constructions and pastel drawings.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Books
A Glossy Photo Book Captures a Beautiful But Sanitized Detroit
Michel Arnaud’s book makes a fine addition to any Detroit-lover’s library, but it takes away the elements that make the city real, vital, and colorful.
Art
Using Digital Technology to Explore Dream States and Internal Rhythms
The works in Chris Reilly's solo show at Cave gallery feel vulnerable and handmade, like digital quilts.
Art
Playing Out Art Fantasies on the Phone with Customer Service
Artist Frank Heath collaborates with performers to speak with call center representatives, under the guise of service requests that quickly devolve into open-ended registers of existential distress.
In Brief
Goldfish Bashes Tiny Furniture with a Hammer
Artist Neil Mendoza has endowed a goldfish with the power to "smash people stuff," reversing the typically anthropocentric dynamics of marine power relations.
Art
A Dollar-Store Art Show Shortchanges Its Viewers
A massive group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit was basically drawn from junk, and so it remains.
Art
A Critical Understanding of Edward Curtis’s Photos of Native American Culture
A massive installation at the Muskegon Museum of Art displays Edward Curtis's entire ethnographic survey of surviving Native American culture at the turn of the 20th century.
Art
Grappling with Authorship and Acceptance in the Pop Art of Roger Brown
A pair of exhibitions at Kavi Gupta gallery places the artist's paintings and sculptures in dialogue with arrangements of objects from his personal collections.
Art
On Memorial Day, an Artist Burns and Buries a Confederate Flag
At Detroit's N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, John Sims conducted a two-hour-long Confederate flag funeral.
Books
A Political Cartoonist’s Stark Portrayal of Palestinian Existence
Mohammad Sabaaneh's collection of political cartoons White and Black is a graphic telling of the human rights abuses perpetuated by the Israeli state against citizens of Palestine.
Art
Crowdsourcing Home Videos from Detroit in 1967, the Year of an Uprising
The Detroit Institute of Arts' year-long project builds a crowd-sourced archive of everyday life during a year when the city was embroiled in a dramatic conflict.
Art
A Project Brings Puerto Rican Artists and Organizers to Detroit to Build Solidarity
The Detroit/Puerto Rico Solidarity Exchange Network aims to strengthen connections between Puerto Ricans on the island and those in the diaspora, and make new ones with activists in the Motor City.