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Levon Kafafian’s Cocoon From the Future
In the artist’s futuristic world of Azadistan, textiles become socio-political tools that sketch a vision of cultural expression beyond technological frameworks.
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
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Half a Century of Black Art in Detroit
An exhibition revisits the ongoing legacy of Gallery 7, a space dedicated to Black artists experimenting with abstraction and minimalism in the 1970s.
Interview
Filmmaker dream hampton Culls Memories From Detroit's Flooded Basements
Her short film Freshwater is now playing at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.
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Six Local Artists Grapple with the Specter of Detroit’s Manufacturing Heritage
An ambiguity between adaptation and transformation hangs over this large exhibition.
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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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From Bananas to Bills, an Artist Peels Back the Layers of the Global Economy
Adriana Martínez, who has organized a multi-faceted collective in Bogotá, focuses on the geopolitical implications of resource distribution in her art.
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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Across the United States
Here's a small taste of what this vast country had to offer in art this year.
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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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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.
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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.
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Lessons in Looking from a Ragnar Kjartansson Performance
DETROIT — I’d been sitting in the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s Cafe 78 for roughly five minutes before I noticed that the usual sonic backdrop of well-curated music had been replaced by a single repeating guitar chord, fading almost to silence each time before being reprised (with an occasio
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Understanding an Empire Through the Lives of Its Soldiers
DETROIT — The Sick Man of Europe, a project by artist Dor Guez, demonstrates the fundamental tension between individual and society.