Art
Discovering the Treasures of an Artist from the Cass Corridor Movement
Paul Schwarz is not readily associated with the Cass Corridor movement — one of the only major 20th-century fine art trends to emerge from Detroit — but he should be.
Reviews
Art
Efficient Roadway or Gridlocked Nightmare? The Choice is Yours in this Highway Engineering Game
Freeways by Justin Smith is an urban planning simulator where players construct complex highway systems while avoiding traffic jams.
Art
Pushing the Limits of What a Video Game Can Be at IndieCade
The independent game festival offers everything from VR to modified old-school SNES setups to an "interactive zine."
Books
Dreamy Photographs Taken with a Toy Camera Retrace a Rural Midwestern Childhood
Long out of print, Nancy Rexroth's IOWA, a haunting monograph of black-and-white photographs evoking her childhood in the Midwest, is reissued.
Art
Calling Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest a "Rebellion," a Museum Takes a Strong Stand
In an exhibition commemorating the uprising, the Charles H. Wright Museum takes a political stance in how it describes that history.
Performance
Unraveling the Complicated Confederate Legacy, One Strand at a Time
Sonya Clark's performance Unraveling comes at a time when racists feel newly emboldened to display their bigotry.
Music
The Killers’ Glamor, Sincerity, and Kitsch
Wonderful Wonderful is almost embarrassingly intense, indecorously intimate, forgetting to blush while expressing feelings too huge for the songs to contain.
Art
Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, New York City’s Greatest Flaneurs
Burckhardt and Denby are central figures in New York’s cultural history, even if they are not as well known as they should be.
Art
Visualizing the Imaginary and Unseen
Nicolas Carone questions our understanding of the image and gives us no definitive answers.
Art
Ambitions and Limitations of Civic Engagement in the Museum
Philadelphia Assembled differentiates itself by not putting pleasure as its end goal, risking the discomfort of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's guests.
Art
Rose DeSiano Holds a Mirror Up to Nature
A deceptively thoughtful sculpture series engages with Randalls and Wards Islands’ erased and less visible histories.
Art
American Monuments Then and Now
The much-anticipated second edition of Lee Friedlander’s The American Monument coincides with the opening skirmishes of an extended battle over the control of history.