Robert “Bob” Sestok is a Detroit original and career artist, living and working in the city since his days at Wayne State University. In the early 1970s, Sestok was one of the recognized names among the Cass Corridor Movement—arguably the most notorious contemporary art movement to emerge from Detroit. Sestok’s […]
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For many, hoarding represents a kind of other-ness from which we seek to immediately distance ourselves. Hoarders are compulsively driven to save and accumulate all kinds of materials, seeing as treasure objects that are conventionally considered garbage. Because the hyperbolic nature of extreme hoarding is so alienating, it is a […]
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Here’s a piece I wrote for the premiere of a new website – Detroit Is It. I was extremely fired up at the time, and remain fired up, on the subject of art market hegemony. For those who enjoy when I rant out my neck about capitalism, enjoy! And while […]
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