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Detroit Institute of Arts Faces Backlash Over “Pro-Cop” Mural
Artists including Dawoud Bey, Jordan Casteel, and Kevin Beasley criticized the institution’s partnership on the mural, titled “To Serve and Protect.”
Nicole Macdonald
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An Artist Excavates the Neglected Histories of a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Detroit
Nicole MacDonald’s Last Days of Chinatown hones in on the displacement of the poor and “unimportant” people to accommodate the march of progress in Detroit.
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Public Portraits Honor Detroit’s Storied Writers and Poets
DETROIT — It seems ridiculous to think of a five-by-seven-foot portrait as being subtle, but that is the word that springs immediately to mind during an encounter with Nicole Macdonald’s large portraits of important figures in Detroit’s history and present.