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Casting Sculptures from the Human Body’s Natural Voids

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 16, 2018May 15, 2018

The connection to between Lauren Kalman’s specific body and the process she has undergone to produce these objects is laid out in graphic terms.

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The Rich Chicano Tradition of Black Velvet Paintings

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 12, 2018April 11, 2018

An exhibition in Detroit’s Mexicantown takes an in-depth look at the black velvet painting tradition in Chicano communities, from renderings of a Nahuatl legend to portraits of Elvis and Zapata.

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Beverly Buchanan’s Shack Sculptures Feel at Home in Detroit

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 19, 2017July 18, 2017

An exhibition at David Klein Gallery brings together Buchanan’s evocative shack constructions and pastel drawings.

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A Glossy Photo Book Captures a Beautiful But Sanitized Detroit

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 14, 2017July 14, 2017

Michel Arnaud’s book makes a fine addition to any Detroit-lover’s library, but it takes away the elements that make the city real, vital, and colorful.

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Using Digital Technology to Explore Dream States and Internal Rhythms

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 13, 2017July 12, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 22, 2017June 22, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 30, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 17, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 21, 2017March 21, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 14, 2017March 15, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 2, 2017

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 7, 2017

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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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome
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Our Place: to the moon and back on a rocketship from Rome

Tom Osgood’s final sculptures accompany design objects by his daughter Ravenna that celebrate domestic joys. On view at form & concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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