At the 2014 Finals Concert on Sunday, Feb. 23. Throughout the weekend of Feb. 21-23, the Sphinx Organization  held its second annual convening on diversity in the performing arts. Founded in 1996 by Aaron P. Dworkin, Sphinx seeks to transform lives through involvement in the performing arts, and sees the diversification of cultural inclusion in […]

People like this? On Saturday, February 8th, Popps Packing celebrated the closing of the two-man show, “In Other Places People Lived,” with an artist talk featuring the two contributors, Will Hutchinson and Nathan Tonning. Nathan Tonning (left) took the lead, with Will Hutchinson connecting to the talk from out-of-state via Skype. Hutchinson was beaming in via […]

Event coordinator George Tysh introduces the evening’s readers. Saturday, February 15th was the first spring installment of Evidence: New Writing in the Metro, a reading series which seeks to “reflect an impressive range of experimental writing in Southeast Michigan.” The evening’s pairing of writers was art critic, fiction writer and poet Lynn Crawford, with prose […]

The crowd gathers for the main event, following the opening cocktail hour. On Monday, February 10th, the DSO’s Max M. Fisher Music Center was the location for the kickoff of the Assemble: IDEA Speaker Series, with a presentation by keynote speaker Vishaan Chakrabarti, followed by a panel discussion. Chakrabarti is a highly renowned urbanist, Principal […]

The latest at Public Pool is a group show, “ART AS ANTI-ART IS ART” that tackles one of the fundamental questions of contemporary art practice: “What makes that art?” The pieces on display at Public Pool seem largely to employ commonplace materials in the making of objects that, in the words of the exhibit’s curator […]

“I Cancel All My Works at Death”: art of James Lee Byars by Triple Candie and the MOCAD. Friday, February 7th marked the opening of several new exhibits within the winter season for the MOCAD (a Knight Arts grantee). The headliner is a pseudo-retrospective of Detroit-native performance and conceptual artist James Lee Byars, “I Cancel All […]

Kinga Osz-Kemp (right) demonstrates a transparent process. This week, over two sessions that took place February 4-5, Ocelot Print Shop held its first Screen Print 101 class of 2014. The two-day series led students through the basic printing process, beginning with design, moving through screen prep and exposure, practicing printing, and rounding out with cleanup. […]

New at Re:View–”Ether” by Sharon Que will be up through March 1. It is a simple joy to encounter a body of artwork that is both plainspoken, yet somehow does all the talking for itself. “Ether,” a new solo exhibit by Sharon Que, which opened at Re:View Gallery on Saturday, January 25th, is a quietly […]

“Bear Culture” by Caroline Wells-Chandler. The latest action over at N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art is “Do The Yale Thing”—a group show featuring standout work by eighteen recent Yale MFA graduates, curated by Dexter Wimberly. The show opened Friday, January 24th, followed by a Curator & Artist Talk on Saturday, January 25th at 2 p.m. The […]

Artist Emily Jane Wood with her display at Art in Motion. Friday, January 24th marked the opening of a show of new ceramic work by Hamtramck artist and productive force behind Hamtramx Ceramix, Emily Jane Wood at the Art in Motion Gallery. Located high in the north end of Detroit, on the former “Fashion Avenue” strip […]

Tuesday, January 21st was the regular monthly installment of Ann Delisi’s Essential Music Listening Parties, a real-world extension of her popular weekend music show, “Ann Delisi’s Essential Music,” which airs Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on WDET (101.9 FM). The listening parties seek to break the fourth wall of radio, with Delisi emceeing proceedings […]