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The Outsider Artist Who Built His Own Private “Disneyland”
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Outsider artists walk a fine line between being perceived as inspired or insane.
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.
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An Artist Couple from Bangladesh Shares Their Deeply Political Work
EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s most intuitive to equate activism with a kind of direct action: collecting signatures, participating in a public protest, sending sharply worded letters, community organizing.
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An LA Gallery Touches Down Awkwardly in Detroit
DETROIT — It is sometimes difficult to realize that a lot of what might be construed as who you are is actually a reflection of where you are.
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Extending a Local Legacy, Bay Area Artists and Media Activists Fight for Social Justice
SAN FRANCISCO — Just around the corner from the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) — a veritable temple to wealth amassed in the form of contemporary artworks — the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has mounted a very different kind of installation, one which monumentalizes act
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Registering the Moment of Remembrance
DETROIT — “In Detroit, you can do things — and you must do things — that are different than anywhere else,” said Gary Wasserman, the founder of Wasserman Projects, one of Detroit’s newest galleries.
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Registering the Moment of Remembrance
DETROIT — “In Detroit, you can do things — and you must do things — that are different than anywhere else,” said Gary Wasserman, the founder of Wasserman Projects, one of Detroit’s newest galleries.
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Upgrading a Traditional Javanese Instrument to Run on an Algorithm
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — We are a technology-obsessed culture.
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A Memorial to Hollywood Star Hedy Lamarr, a Founding Mother of Modern Tech
If you’ve heard of Hedy Lamarr, it’s probably in connection to her dramatic and scandal-laden career as a Hollywood film actress of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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Wrestling with the “Forces of Wickedness” Along 8 Mile Road
DETROIT — Saturday, May 28 was a staggeringly hot day out along 8 Mile Road, where, just before three in the afternoon, a somewhat anomalous crowd of people began to gather.
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Meditative, Modernist Canvases Inspired by Brasília’s Architecture
DETROIT — Sometimes Minimalist artworks fit so perfectly into a market for objects featured in Dwell magazine spreads that one has to wonder if there is actually anything going on below their surface. But in the case of a new body of work by Brazilian artist Simone DeSousa, there is.
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Whimsical, Art Deco–Inspired Window Designs
CHICAGO — Confessions of an arts writer: my background is in theater design.
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A History of Detroit Through Its Bricks
DETROIT — Object-oriented ontology suggests that inanimate objects have lives and wider spheres of experience than the ways in which they relate to humans.