Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit Archives

Art

Six Local Artists Grapple with the Specter of Detroit’s Manufacturing Heritage

by Amy Luo March 18, 2019March 25, 2019

An ambiguity between adaptation and transformation hangs over this large exhibition.

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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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From Bananas to Bills, an Artist Peels Back the Layers of the Global Economy

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 21, 2017

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

by Hyperallergic December 29, 2016December 30, 2016

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 21, 2016November 21, 2016

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

by Lisa John Rogers July 30, 2016August 1, 2016

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 6, 2016April 7, 2016

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 8, 2016March 7, 2016

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Art Detroit’s Cafe 78 for roughly five minutes before I noticed that the usual sonic backdrop of well-curated music had been replaced by a single repeating guitar chord, fading almost to silence each time before being reprised (with an occasional light riff).

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Understanding an Empire Through the Lives of Its Soldiers

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 29, 2015

DETROIT — The Sick Man of Europe, a project by artist Dor Guez, demonstrates the fundamental tension between individual and society.

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In Middle America, a Survey of Art from Latin America

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 23, 2015December 23, 2015

DETROIT — The central piece, and the one that immediately draws the eye when entering the main gallery of United States of Latin America at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, is a full wall mural by Minerva Cuevas entitled “America.”