Happy Monday! Don’t know about your life last week, but mine was an unrelenting maelstrom of interpersonal conflict and resolution, cognitive growth, and emotional stretch goals. Let’s change the air a little, shall we? PLEASE ENJOY FISH HAMMER…
“Understanding something as an artwork gives rise to two possible mistakes of ontological mislocation: taking something as an artwork when it is not one, and taking something as a real object when it is an artwork.” —Arthur Danto, “The Transfiguration of the Commonplace“ DETROIT — It seems evident to me […]
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Can one come to a revelation through a visit to an art museum, or is it something that can only be arrived at through a more intensive personal journey? This is the question that emerged for me as I visited the Muskegon Museum of Art for Edward […]
This Saturday will mark the closing of a month-long exhibition at Public Pool art space in Hamtramck, which I helped to organize. It represents my first work as a curator, although I’m still grappling with what curating actually means for me. Something more like facilitation, I think. This show was […]
You can check out the first works in my Momento Mori: Better Made series, which are part of The Incinerator Show, a group show at Ocelot Print Shop that opened last night, and will run through June 23rd. These are screen-printed and hand-beaded works on fabric. Remember you must die. […]
Among Michigan’s myriad environmental offenses that endanger the clear air and water that we as citizens of an allegedly first-world nation might rightfully expect, the Detroit incinerator is one of the longest-running issues for folks here in the city. Anyone who lives downwind, or even drives by, is familiar with […]
Usually I just repost and keep it moving, but I’m proud of this piece and want to offer you extra encouragement to read it. It’s not just about Roger Brown or politics, but a subject near and dear to my heart: authorship. Enjoy! CHICAGO — The tendency of Pop artists […]
Have a new one up over at Delicious Line – for when you want an art review that you can read before your microwave burrito is done heating up (that’s not their official tag line). Gray Matters Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University The experience of being a […]