If you lack the tolerance for Hollywood blockbusters, here’s a tip to beat the heat in Detroit this summer: Take in “CC5 Hendrixwar/Cosmococa Programa-in-Progress,” the full-gallery installation of a work by Hélio Oiticica and Neville D’Almeida. Tucked away in the furthest reaches of “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” at […]
I want you to know, Sarah Sweeney, that I have thought about you more than once since I was laid off from our mutual place of employment nearly eight years ago. To be perfectly accurate, I have thought about you perhaps every two months since then–sometimes quite a bit more. […]
I am prompted, by events of today, to share some thoughts and a fascinating behind-the-scenes peek at the life and times of an arts writer. I am at the end of my Kresge year, an opportunity which I have cherished – not least of which because it gave me a […]
Red Bull House of Art has made its name in Detroit by showing some of the most cutting-edge young artists in town. Now, as the residency/gallery space transitions to get an international influx of artist in the mix, a palette-cleansing show, 15 Steps: Perspectives in Drawing, curated by local artist […]
At the age of eight, there were already a number of things that alienated me from my peers, but their blossoming interest in boys was fast becoming the biggest one. Thoughts of Disney princes and knights did not entice me, outside of the possibility of riding horses. Similarly, the elementary […]
It is paradoxical to think so, but conspiracy theories are actually fairly reassuring. They suggest that the bad things that happen are in some way organized and someone is directly responsible for them. Perhaps bad people are in charge, but at least someone is at the wheel. Likewise, for all […]
For Father’s Day weekend, The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers in Detroit presented “Fathers & Figures” on June 17–an evening of storytelling in honor of dads, presented by fathers and sons. The show is part of an ongoing series funded by Knight Foundation, which takes place monthly at the Charles […]
Artist: Tyanna Buie Location: Her studio (Russell Industrial) Breakfast: TB & SRS – Homemade vegan macaroons It is a great privilege to be acquainted with your own history. Print artist Tyanna Buie is frankly open about a childhood that she and her three siblings spent largely out of their mother’s […]
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — We are a technology-obsessed culture. As futurist Ray Kurzweil wrote in his essay, “The Law of Accelerating Returns”: “An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense ‘intuitive linear’ view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in […]
On the pontoon boat were Dave, Eddie, Stigg, both Andrews, and Rachel. The little fishing boat held just me and Audrey, with Mark behind the wheel. Audrey was a slight blonde with a visible cold sore just below her mouth, and she really had to pee. She’d been talking about […]