• Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Detroit

Posted inBooks

Detroit’s Electronic Music Scene, Seen Through Its Black Creators

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford June 14, 2021June 14, 2021

Electronic Landscapes takes the reader into the storied record shops and cozy home studios of Detroit’s most important musicians.

Posted inNews

Detroit Institute of Arts Faces Backlash Over “Pro-Cop” Mural

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 7, 2021June 7, 2021

Artists including Dawoud Bey, Jordan Casteel, and Kevin Beasley criticized the institution’s partnership on the mural, titled “To Serve and Protect.”

Posted inOpinion

How a Property Tax Helped Transform the Detroit Institute of Arts

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Salvador Salort-Pons and Eugene Gargaro May 23, 2021May 21, 2021

Our millage funding model, based upon responsiveness and accountability, is a successful paradigm that has sustained the DIA and benefitted our region.

Posted inNews

Leaked Recording of Confidential Meeting at Detroit Institute Details Allegations of Toxic Workplace

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Allegations overheard include descriptions of director Salvador Salort-Pons’s leadership as “erratic, autocratic, condescending” and “intolerant of dissent.”

Posted inArt

Highlighting Detroit’s Invisible Artists: Local Art Workers

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 3, 2020November 5, 2020

The most interesting takeaway of ARTWORK is the framework itself, which seeks to center the artists who have, historically, played an overlooked role in making the art world turn.

Posted inNews

After 70 Former Workers Cite “Toxic Work Environment,” MOCA Detroit Terminates Executive Director

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 29, 2020November 5, 2020

After conducting an internal investigation, the MOCAD board concluded that Elysia Borowy-Reeder’s leadership “fell short of its goals for diversity, inclusivity and a healthy work environment.”

Posted inSponsored

Dlectricity, Detroit’s Light and Art Festival, Is Now Accepting Artist Applications

by DLECTRICITY January 22, 2020January 22, 2020

Dlectricity returns September 25-26, 2020. The deadline for artists to apply is March 3, 2020.

Posted inArt

An Activist Documentarian Charts Detroit’s Water Affordability Crisis

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 5, 2019December 7, 2019

“Lack of transparency is the enemy of democracy,” said filmmaker and activist Kate Levy. “As an artist, that’s an easy thing to make work about.”

Posted inArt

Two Artists Merge Their Divergent Worlds Into a Veritable Wonderland

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 4, 2019

If Hirosuke Yabe’s sculptural compositions are like a Miyazaki-esque stage play, then Summer Wheat’s large-scale paintings form a colorful and dynamic backdrop.

Posted inArt

Remembering an Artist Who Fought to Have It All

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 2, 2019

An artist, mother, and source of inspiration for Detroit artists, the legacy Rose Brown Dalessandro leaves behind is not simply one of form, but one of the struggles attendant to its creation.

Posted inNews

An Outdoor Art Project in Detroit Burns in Arson Attack, Again

by Sarah Rose Sharp September 26, 2019September 26, 2019

Firefighters were delayed from doing more than monitoring the blaze at the Heidelberg Project site due to a succession of five non-working fire hydrants — possibly the result of ongoing water main repairs.

Posted inSponsored

Red Bull Arts Detroit Opens Applications for 2020 Artist Residency and Curatorial Fellowship

by Red Bull Arts August 28, 2019August 28, 2019

All applications are due by September 30 and will be reviewed by the selection committee comprised of Michelle Grabner, Joiri Minaya, Legacy Russell, and Michael Stone Richards.

Posts navigation

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 … 12 Older posts
Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy