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Plumbing the Highs and Lows of Pop Cultural Desire
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — “I want to know what love is,” artist Scott Northrup confides in me via email, and his reference to the Foreigner song of same name is neither ironic nor unintentional.
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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At the Heidelberg Project’s New Gallery, an Artist Grows Paper Facsimiles of Wilderness
DETROIT — Seeking to capitalize on the steadily growing interest in the Heidelberg Project, Guyton has taken steps to broaden its relevance and extend some of its notoriety in the direction of other emerging artists.
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With Custom-Designed Galleries and Cinematic Facades, Columbus Museum of Art Opens New Wing
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Expanding a museum is a lengthy and costly process, one which requires a great deal of buy-in from the staff, patrons, board, and surrounding community
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Two Tony Suburban Galleries Move into Detroit
DETROIT — As the saying goes: be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
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Two Ceramicists Craft Domestic Intricacies
Whether it is Clemo, with his violated use objects, or Williams, investing painstaking traditional labor into a multitude of simple, decorative forms, both artists are making strong contributions within the continuum of contemporary ceramics.
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An Inquiry into Identity at ArtPrize
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) is one of the central hubs for the ArtPrize activities that throw the city into a cultural frenzy each fall.
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A Family Auction House's Rise and Fall as a Microhistory of Detroit
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — It is the pitiful fate of objects to serve as proxies for our failed dreams, relationships, and ambitions.
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From Carcasses of Cloth to Race Riot Chess, Some Highlights of ArtPrize 2015
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — I can’t imagine I’m the only one who found ArtPrize 7 a little underwhelming.
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Detroit Artists Take a Hammer to Traditional Ceramics
DETROIT — These days Detroit is a hotbed of craft-based forms revisited.
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An Artist Couple Explores the Sexy and Not-So-Sexy Realities of Intimacy
DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.
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A Video Game Pits Michael Jackson Against Himself
“Two Michaels enter. One Michael leaves.”
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From Peeling Skin to Talking Dolls, Highlights from the Detroit Design Festival
DETROIT — The 2015 Detroit Design Festival brought a flurry of activity to the city’s environs, the capstone to a busy September.