What is most remarkable about the life and work of Filipina artist Pacita Abad? The expansive catalogue thataccompanies the artist’s career-spanning survey exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Pacita Abad,explores many potential answers to this question. Certainly remarkable is the singular course charted from Abad’s birth in 1946 […]
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This is a cool program, and I’m delighted to see my name among some of my favorite fellow culture mavens. Congrats to all! CultureSource is proud to announce that 54 Creators of Culture grants have been made to independent arts organizers, curators, and journalists throughout Southeast Michigan. From queer DJ […]
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Documentary filmmaker and installation artist Kate Levy considers herself an activist — a title often bandied about by artists these days — which Levy embodies sometimes as a participant rather than as a documentarian. “My work always has a political analysis — namely anti-exploitation and anti-racism,” Levy told Hyperallergic. “I […]
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Truth is a largely subjective and challenging aspect of human existence, especially in these politically divisive times. Physical objects present a shared reality and an external point of reference, to which we can relate (though not always agree). Consider the artist Sophie Eisner, who creates an armature for the kinds […]
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Jewish continuity — that is, the relationship between older and younger generations of Jewish people — is always a concern within the community. The Jewish Museum of Maryland is tackling this discourse in partnership with the New Jewish Culture Fellowship (NJCF), currently presenting work byfellows and guest-curated by NJCF fellow, […]
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Nothing really prepares one for the experience of entering the Huckleberry Explorer’s Club (HEC), a small museum in a duplex in Detroit’s burgeoning Core City neighborhood whose ground floor houses a general store full of secondhand oddities for sale at throwaway prices. The project is a collaboration between author and […]
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It is the most human tendency to take the place where you were raised for granted — a site literallygranted to you upon your entry into the world. Some of us never leave our place of origin, which makes it hard to develop any real perspective about it, while others […]
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DETROIT — Art clubs were a popular phenomenon around the turn of the 20th century, cropping up in major cities across the US. Several, like the National Arts Club in New York (est. 1898) and the California Art Club in Los Angeles (est. 1909) are still in operation, some 100 […]
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For artist Liz Cohen, photography initially seemed well-suited to serve her natural curiosity about the lives of others, but she quickly had to reckon with a sense of voyeurism that left her standing apart from her subjects. Her first big project, CANAL, was a four-year work of street photography and […]
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“Flora and Fauna,” an exhibit of 26 artists who work in and around the Catskill Mountains or who engage the regional biodiversity in their art making practices, opened Friday, March 17, at 1053 Gallery In Fleischmanns. According to a media release, curated by Ryan Steadman and Haley Mellin, local biodiversity […]
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