Big art times are beginning with a kickoff reception on Wednesday, April 10, as Art X 2013 will fill the Sugar Hill Arts District and surrounding Cass Corridor area with a five day blowout featuring work by past Kresge Grant recipients. More details available at the MOCAD about opening night registration. Festivities begin at the […]

Traditional Ukrainian pysanky, written by artist and teacher Dr. Luba Petrusha. One interpretation of Easter traditions is that they reflect a point where the rising tide of Christianity incorporated the preexisting rites of pagan culture and other religious solstice and fertility celebrations. Though the oldest existing remnants of pysanky or “Ukranian Easter eggs” (pronounced “pih-son-kih” with […]

Able-bodied art patrons test their abilities against “Able Objects” at Public Pool. Saturday night’s opening of “Able Objects” at Public Pool, featuring the work of Real OK Design (a.k.a. artist Aaron Blendowski) presented a trifectarial appeal to my particular sensibilities: functional sculpture, appropriation of common objects, and art you can touch. These aspects make perfect […]

A full house at the Cass Cafe for the opening of “Nature Unrepentant” by Gary Mayer. On a long enough timeline, it can become difficult to discern if a legacy is earned or merely granted for tenacity. Artist and illustrator Gary Mayer hails from Detroit and graduated from Wayne State before moving to New York […]

“The Meaning in Making” is part of the ongoing “How is Your School?” taking place into April at 2739 Edwin Gallery. Spring is coming (the occasional flurries notwithstanding), and you can tell by the uptick in weekend events stirring loudly to life. This weekend the truly gridiron hit the streets for the annual Marche du […]

The Detroit Film Theatre marries classic cinema with live accompaniment this weekend. In two special viewings this Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23, the Detroit Film Theatre will host the Rackham Symphony Choir as they provide a live score to the 1928 silent film masterpiece “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc” (The Passion of Joan […]

Why do it yourself when we can do it together? One of the common misconceptions about DIY culture is that consumers are saving money by making for themselves what would otherwise be mass-produced. With rare exception, a cost-benefit analysis will show that mass production has the edge when purchasing raw materials (mass demand creating the […]

2739 Edwin to host a timely conversation about education. There are few issues in Detroit more politically or emotionally fraught than the state of the Detriot Public School system. In this regard, Detroit is perhaps an extreme example, but by no means the sole instance of breakdown of the concept and execution of public education. As […]

2739 Edwin brings the music. It is easy to restrict one’s thinking about what it means to be a musician. The life of a professional cellist, for example, may evoke images of long years of training that culminate in the ability to flawlessly execute works of the great classical composers. Even within jazz or the recent […]

If you’re in the market for a guru on the cultivation of a cult following, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more qualified candidate than Royal Oak native Bruce Campbell or his fellow metro-Detroiter, director Sam Raimi. Though the pair have been working together in the major motion picture industry for more than 20 years, […]

Rajewski (left center) among the opening night crowd at his first solo exhibition THERE IS NO HEAVEN FOR CONCEPTS, the first solo exhibition for Detroit artist Jonathan Rajewski, is a special kind of pain for people like me, who can barely repress their desire to touch artwork. Materiality is the watchword of this entirely new […]