The works in Chris Reilly’s solo show at Cave gallery feel vulnerable and handmade, like digital quilts.
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A Dollar-Store Art Show Shortchanges Its Viewers
A massive group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit was basically drawn from junk, and so it remains.
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On Memorial Day, an Artist Burns and Buries a Confederate Flag
At Detroit’s N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, John Sims conducted a two-hour-long Confederate flag funeral.
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A Project Brings Puerto Rican Artists and Organizers to Detroit to Build Solidarity
The Detroit/Puerto Rico Solidarity Exchange Network aims to strengthen connections between Puerto Ricans on the island and those in the diaspora, and make new ones with activists in the Motor City.
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Envisioning Democratic Design at a French Biennial
A visit to the 2017 Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne offers an important reminder that we’re surrounded by designs created to encourage some behaviors and obstruct others.
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Three Artists Visualize the Uneasy Cohabitation of Humans and Nature
A show at Detroit’s Wasserman Projects brings together Willy Verginer, Christer Karlstad, and Jason DeMarte, all of whom consider our relationship to the environment.
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Artist and Curator Ingrid LaFleur Is Running for Mayor of Detroit
LaFleur is a native Detroiter who traveled and worked in the wider contemporary art world for over a decade, before returning to apply what she’d learned to her hometown.
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When an Exhibition Leaves You Feeling Like an Idiot
Alivia Zivich, a co-curator of the chaotic exhibition Eric Schmid is an Idiot, likened the experience of putting the 80-something artist show together to “tying loose strings to other loose strings.”
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An Ode to Detroit’s People Mover, a Looping Public Transit Joke
A book edited by Nick Tobier gathers contributions by 15 artists and writers reflecting on one of Detroit’s longest-running inside jokes: the People Mover.
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Setting Aluminum Animals Loose on the Streets of Detroit
On a recent frigid, polar vortex night, husband-and-wife public art duo Hygienic Dress League set out in a van with a flock of aluminum-molded animals.
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Trying to Believe in Sanford Biggers’s Subjective Cosmology
In the Sanford Biggers exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, there is a feeling of being somewhat loose and unsupported in the space.
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Two Detroit Artists Face Up to Four Years in Prison for Political Graffiti
As a founding member of the Raiz Up Collective in Southwest Detroit, Antonio Cosme, 28, has been an outspoken critic of the city’s redevelopment regime: speaking at public meetings, interrupting the mayor’s state of the city address, and using his own body to prevent officials from shutting off a pregnant woman’s water supply in the middle of Ramadan.