Art in Detroit (from an insider)
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When I first heard about plant , a video currently being shown at the Detroit Institute of Arts, my eyes rolled so far back in my head that even a specially designed pair of 3D glasses could not render my sight operational enough to view it. But once I came to terms with the fact that someone had made a video of the abandoned Packard plant (and not , I might add, a tribute to Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin or the film "The Song Remains the Same", although parts reminded me of it I must admit) and it was now being shown in our most prestigious art establishment, I was able to relax and take from it a few pleasurable things. More than anything, it was the sound of birds. The birds you hear while viewing plant , a video of stitched-together photographs by Paul Kaiser and the OpenEnded Group, are essential.
One More Spoke (Blog)
By thedetroiter.com TheDetroiter.com’s First Annual Invitational Show & Panel Discussion What is beauty? Do we care?
Art Criticism and Editorials about Detroit
By Michelle Hauske, Detroit Institute of Arts The Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Inside|Out program, now in its third year, brings 80 reproductions of masterpieces from the DIA’s collection to the streets and parks of metro Detroit, pleasantly surprising residents of the participating communities. Where possible, the works are clustered within walking or biking distance [...]
Knight Arts | Category Archive | Detroit
The current events blog Deliberately Considered recently published my review of the new book by McKenzie Wark , The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International (Verso, 2011). The book takes its title from the famous grafitto of the general strike of May 1968 in France: "Sous les paves, la plage!" (Under the pavement, the beach!) It updates the Situationist legacy for the present day, and it seeks to offer a more nuanced view of the movement and its key players. In particular, it looks beyond Guy Debord, his writing, and his films to consider the activities of those whose contributions to SI have often gone under-recognized.
Motown Review of Art
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Photo by Kottie Gaydos. Post-Industrial Complex is a survey, group exhibition, and source book that explores the ingenuity and adaptivity of human-scale production at the heart of Detroit. The exhibition disrupts the notion that there is a story of the city. A true metropolis is comprised of multiple stories and multiple voices. From a prolific inventor to a collective working to keep an aboriginal language alive, the artists included in this exhibition—all of whom responded to an open call for “makers, inventors, problem solvers, fabricators, modifiers, etc...”
Russell Industrial Center
The Russell Industrial Center is quickly becoming the largest Art Mecca/Small Business Haven in the midwest. With over 150 commercial tenants from all types of creative backgrounds, it is an ideal place to create and work. Architects, painters, clothing designers, glass blowers, wood craftsman, metal sculptors, graphic designers and the like find the R.I.C. an ideal place to network and exhibit. The Russell Industrial Center also plays host to the People's Arts Festival once a year in the fall and several other art exhibitions.
For 30 years, G. R. N'Namdi Gallery has been internationally recognized as one of the most influential American contemporary abstract art galleries. The Gallery, established in 1981, by George N'Namdi in Detroit, Michigan, maintains its mission of increasing awareness of abstract art, inspiring a new generation of art collectors and engaging collectors
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Featured Detroit Artists (thedetroiter.com)
Many of you already know the ethnically diverse and culturally rich neighborhoods and businesses that make up the city of Hamtramck, so I’ll go ahead and highlight some of my favorite spots around the city for art, culture, food, and everything in between. ”Untitled” plastic children’s chair, steel, banana, corn kernels, lemon rind, lemon skin, lemon seeds, lemon pulp, monofilament, kinetic walls, 10′x15′x8′, 2010 These webpages are courtesy of thedetroiter.com, we asked local artists who their favorite local artists were (who didn’t and may have never had their own [...] Affiliations: Affiliated with Wayne State University, I’m the preparator for the Community Arts Gallery and the Elaine L.Joshua White and Gary Panter's Light Show February 10 through April 29. Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting through April 1.