The exhibition will continue through May 30th. Erdrich (left) and Reiss (right) at the opening of “BINDING (the secret sayers).” On Friday, May 2nd, a collaborative installation between two visiting artists opened at Butter Projects in Royal Oak. Brooklyn-based artist Loren Erdrich and Oakland-based artist Bunnie Reiss met five years ago at a Vermont Studio […]

“When you’re thinking about how someone is going to perceive what you’re doing, you’re not in it. And being in it is the point.” – Kathy Leisen I first encountered Kathy Leisen’s patented brand of professional oddity at the “ANTI-STORY” Good Time Writer’s Buffet, held at Public Pool in conjunction with the “ART AS ANTI-ART […]

Jerry Vile really takes the cake! In an opening foreshadowed by one of the most tongue-in-cheek press releases of all time, artist Jerry Vile—best known as organizer of the longstanding international erotic art show The Dirty Show—premiered an exhibition of work and scene at the Inner State Gallery. Some of the opening-night crowd. “Friend Impresser” […]

There is unquestionable hipster cache in early-stage fandom, scene-topping achieved through claims on a band before they were huge. While there may be some satisfaction to be had in the mode of early adopter, there is something amazing about seeing a band that has come into its own, and been there long enough to get […]

On Wednesday, April 30th, The Greening of Detroit will be hosting a future-building event, Living Green in the D!, which includes a screening of the film Lean, Mean & Green, a documentary by Carrie Lezotte that premiered at the Detroit Film Theatre on September 25, 2013, and was also included in the Freep Film Festival […]

The countdown is on for One Day in Detroit. All day Saturday, April 26th, hundreds of filmmakers, community organizations, and citizens will be hitting the streets to film responses to 10 questions, posed to create inspiration for visual investigations: 1. Why are you in your city? 2. What do you love about your city? 3. […]

“Samurai: Beyond the Sword” is going on at the Detroit Institute of Arts through June 1. The latest special exhibit at the DIA, “Samurai: Beyond the Sword,” seeks to contextualize one of history’s most romanticized figures, the samurai warriors of Edo period Japan. The Edo period spanned 1603 to 1867 and witnessed a great flourishing […]

An open-house exhibition by the two artists features installations within their Hamtramck living/working space. Mini-installations ranged all over the apartment. In an open house event much in the spirit of the Hamtramck Neighborhood Art Festival, painter and fiber artist Paula Schubatis and multimedia collagist and sculptor Dessislava (Dessi) Terzieva opened their shared home/studio space, affectionately […]

The piece runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights at 8 p.m., from April 10th-26th. Experimental theater, like all experiments, can sometimes yield disastrous results, but I’m happy to report that “Life is Happening to Us Again,” staged by A Host of People and hosted by Hinterlands at Play House in Detroit, is an absolute triumph […]

“Out of Time,” one of Brian Barr’s contextual/aesthetic mash-ups. Friday, April 4th was the opening for “Heavy is the Head,” a body of work by artist Brian Barr, and the latest in a scorching series of installations over at Popps Packing. The exhibition with run through April 26th, and close with an artist talk at […]

Founding board member Malik Yakini (left) and Council Member JoAnn Watson (right). On Thursday, April 3rd and Friday, April 4th there was a “Race to Good Food,” otherwise known as the 2014 Detroit Food Policy Council (DFPC) Summit–an annual opportunity for proponents of urban agriculture, food justice and issues of public health and nutritional access […]