News
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.
Detroit
Art
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."
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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.
Art
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 pr
Art
Paintings of Detroit Ruins that Ring True
DETROIT — Nancy Mitchnick's representations of places — whether they refer to actual locations or states of mind — ricochet out into the real world, conveying a sense of how a place looks based on how it feels.
Art
A History of Detroit Through Its Bricks
DETROIT — Object-oriented ontology suggests that inanimate objects have lives and wider spheres of experience than the ways in which they relate to humans.
Art
The Intimacy of an Instrument for Two
DETROIT — When was the last time you enjoyed a shared vibrational experience?
Art
Trying to Plan a Future Detroit Without Leaving the Past Behind
DETROIT — I didn't know what to expect as I prepared for the first evening of Ideas City Detroit on April 25.
Performance
'Antigone' Meets 1970s Radical Detroit in a Work of Immersive Theater
DETROIT — The oft-repeated thesis statement of this interactive theater performance is: “The only war that matters is the war against the imagination; all other wars are subsumed in it.”
Art
From an English Factory to the Streets of Detroit, Disrupting Space with Dance
DETROIT — “There’s something weirdly comforting about knowing there’s a load of cities in the world that are in the same situation,” said Chloë Brown.