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
Ahead of her performance there, Meredith Monk gave a lecture at the University of Michigan outlining her approach to performance as an opportunity to break out of our chaotic visual culture.
Art
Send her your old drawers, and Coralina Meyer will sew them into one of her "Cunt Quilts," the first of which will fly at this weekend's Women's March on Washington.
Opinion
The guide, Lumin, offers museumgoers an opportunity to look closer and, by providing critical context, expand their understanding of a given art object.
Art
A book edited by Nick Tobier gathers contributions by 15 artists and writers reflecting on one of Detroit’s longest-running inside jokes: the People Mover.
Interview
Leila Abdelrazaq elaborates on her representation of the Palestinian diaspora and the ability for comics to convey dense issues in a more easily digestible format.
Art
On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.
Art
Dutch designer Iris van Herpen stands out in a field that is fast-moving and codified, and where true innovation is difficult to master.
Art
The real apartment could not have provided a sharper contrast to the silent, windowless, blacked-over surfaces of the dark-side doppelgänger Anders Ruhwald has created in Cleveland.
Art
In the Sanford Biggers exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, there is a feeling of being somewhat loose and unsupported in the space.
Art
The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project explores ideas of genetic diversity via an ongoing global effort to crossbreed the chickens of the world.
Performance
A Host of People's new production reconceives the 1977 effort to create a phonograph record that would communicate the story of life on Earth to extraterrestrials.
Art
Artist Caledonia “Swoon” Curry glimpsed the afterlife when her mother died in 2013, but it took years of research for Swoon to connect this visceral event with what's known as a "shared death experience."