Art
Confronting Museumgoers with Gun Violence in the US
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.
Sarah Rose Sharp
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Portraits of Dead Icons Laser-Etched on Wonder Bread
Who is famous enough to be memorialized on a piece of toast?
Performance
'Antigone' Meets 1970s Radical Detroit in a Work of Immersive Theater
DETROIT — The oft-repeated thesis statement of this interactive theater performance is: “The only war that matters is the war against the imagination; all other wars are subsumed in it.”
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An Artist Flexes His Curatorial Muscle by Opening a Gallery on His Arm
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — There is a lot to be said for implementing your vision, but when you’re talking about the art world, the supporting infrastructure to show work can be difficult and costly to build.
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Could a Survey of American Indian Art Tell the Human Stories Behind Beautiful Objects?
TOLEDO — Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection presents a conundrum of conscience.
Art
Detroit’s Cultural Icons Captured with Time-Lapse Scanning
DETROIT — After many decades at virtual standstill, Detroit has been quickly met with change, bringing with it new opportunities as well as growing pains.
Art
From an English Factory to the Streets of Detroit, Disrupting Space with Dance
DETROIT — “There’s something weirdly comforting about knowing there’s a load of cities in the world that are in the same situation,” said Chloë Brown.
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Found Material Sculptures that Radiate Residual Energy
DETROIT — Perhaps I should preface my discussion of Homage: Regular Folk with a brief declaration of my own sentiments regarding the energetic qualities of inanimate objects.
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Artist Casts His Body Parts in Disturbing Commentary on Grindr
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Many women will happily tell you — if only you looked them in the eye instead of the chest — there is something deeply alienating about being reduced to one’s body parts.
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Florida, Bob Ross, and a Collaborative, Conceptual Art Journey
DETROIT — Painter and art instructor Bob Ross, host of the legendary public access show The Joy of Painting, was known to say, “There is no such thing as a mistake, only happy accidents.”
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A Sprawling Show of Artists as Social Critics
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Spanning several media, much of the work in Us Is Them makes social commentary from the perspective of underrepresented populations. Notably, the show features some of the biggest names in contemporary African-American art, bringing the focus on the fraught nature of black existence
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The Deep-Rooted Expression of Ceramics
DETROIT — One does not, perhaps, consider ceramic objects to be immediately gendered, possess sexuality, or be particularly political.