Chris Butterfield, among the stacks at Found Sound, his record shop in Ferndale. There is an indefinable yet definite point where a record collection jumps the banks of personal obsession and becomes a cottage industry. Detroiter Chris Butterfield’s record store, Found Sound in Ferndale, is just one manifestation of his sprawling and multifaceted relationship with […]

Built on the creative organizational prowess of curator and arts administrator Jennifer Junkermeier in collaboration with artist, writer and teacher Stephen Garret Dewyer comes ∞ mile, a new monthly journal of “art + culture(s) in Detroit.” The inaugural issue debuted in late December, with features by both co-founders, as well as a treatise on diversity within […]

The Sunday afternoon crowd reflects on Tristana during Detroit Film Theatre’s 40th anniversary weekend. The Detroit Film Theatre celebrated its 40th anniversary  Jan. 10-12 with a bonanza weekend featuring an eclectic group of 10 films offered at the 1970s ticket price of $2. The celebration kicked off on Friday at 7 p.m. with Mon Oncle Antoine, […]

Starting this weekend, Cinema Detroit  (formerly known as Cass City Cinema and the Burton Theater) will run a series of screenings of Peter Mettler’s experimental documentary, The End of Time, which explores the perception of time. The film splits screen time between a number of exotic locations, including the particle accelerator at CERN, lava flows […]

Saturday, January 4th marked the closing of “Adverse Affects Include” at Popps Packing, with an artist talk by sculptor Brian Nelson about his large-scale welded bronze and steel works. Several of Nelson’s sculptures, which had a striking aesthetic nature independent of their meaning. The installation dealt with pharmaceuticals, specifically antidepressants. A number of the works, […]

Gallery owner/curator Jason Reed presents “TRUX” at Start Gallery. Thursday, December 19th was the Third Thursday of the month, and I dropped in on Start Gallery for a chat with curator/owner Jason Reed about “TRUX,” a show that features a solo gallery that represents Reed’s debut collection. The work was very cohesive, created over a mere couple […]

Undeterred by winter weather warnings, this blogger dropped in on the Corktown/Mexicantown border this Saturday, December 14th, to pay a visit to the Southwest Holiday Fest, which included a member art festival at the 555 Gallery, performances by Motor City Cabaret and Ballet Folklorico at Matrix Theatre Company, and Birdhouse Biennale and holiday market at […]

The open studio crowd at Pony Ride. The holiday shopping season has Detroit humming with DIY prospects and the cream of the crop of new entrepreneurship that has manifested in recent years into various collaborative maker spaces. Over in Corktown, Pony Ride held open studios on Friday, December 6th, with dozens of the tenant nonprofits, […]

It was a lively scene, with the art assembly line cranking out pieces as fast as the ravenous public could buy them off the walls. By the second shift, the MOCAD was packed with art lovers. In a repeat of last year’s monstrously fun and successful fundraiser, the MOCAD (a Knight Arts grantee) hosted its second Monster […]

The exhibit features a wide range of examples, from some of the best known, to many more obscure animations. With all the controversy surrounding the DIA in light of Detroit’s bankruptcy status, it is easy to start to think of it as an already lost cause. This assessment is far from true, with the DIA […]

The opening night crowd, with arrows helpfully directing attention towards an otherwise unassuming street entrance in the Eastern Market warehouse district. The latest manifestation of the Red Bull House of Art in Detroit opened on Friday, November 15, showcasing the work of its new batch of artists: Dessislava Terzieva, James Oscar Lee, Joshua Gaudette, Michael […]