Art
A Music Festival for the Underrepresented in Detroit
DETROIT — Within media culture, male-dominated environments are presented as the norm, despite the fact that men only comprise roughly half the population.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Interview
Nick Cave on “Tackling Really Hard Issues” with Art
"I’m interested in coming to Detroit — providing you this opportunity to be up close and personal with the work in this static format, but then also being able to get you into this performative experience."
Art
Museum Plants Artworks in Detroit's Community Gardens
DETROIT — It’s a quiet Sunday in Brightmoor, a northwest Detroit neighborhood that’s about as good an example as any of the city’s fall from grace — and its unofficial rebirth via urban agriculture, grassroots activism, and community-based intervention.
Art
A Detroit Design Collective Uses Plastic Molding as a Medium
DETROIT — “Somewhere between architecture and a party” is one of the ways Thing Thing member Simon Anton describes his collective’s aesthetic.
Art
After Years of Battling Gentrification, an Artist Opens a Sculpture Park in Detroit
DETROIT — It was a letter-perfect evening in Detroit for the opening last week of Robert Sestok’s long-anticipated sculpture park, City Sculpture.
Art
Elastic and Rigid Objects That Bend Our Point of View
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The power of expectation is never so evident as it is in the moment it's thwarted.
Art
A Public Art Biennial Takes Over a City in Sweden
ÖREBRO, Sweden — Festivals and biennials are typically the purview of curators and organizers, backed by endowed institutions.
Performance
Dancing Out Our Inner Demons
For dancers, the body is a surrogate for concepts and a tool for arranging shapes in the air.
Art
Envisioning Detroit as a Postindustrial Boomtown
DETROIT — Detroit Boom City is an ambitious installation orchestrated by Atlanta’s Dashboard Co-Op by invitation of the Ford Motor Company Fund, featuring some of Detroit’s most innovative artists.
Art
Unpacking the Contradictions in Quiet Ceramic Tableaus
DETROIT — How many points of conflict can be contained in a delicate arrangement of ceramic objects?
Art
In Detroit, an Arts Festival Crosses Borders
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Borders are a slippery concept, one that seems to exist only in theory most of the time, but occasionally manifests in reality dramatically.
Art
The Surprisingly Improvisational Sounds of Automatic Music
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Musicians throughout the ages have wrestled with the question of creative control, and in our modern age, some have found an answer in technology.