This Saturday, October 20th, was the last day to catch “Flat Pop 2: Eclectic Boogaloo,” new work by Eric Iverson and Mary Iverson, on display at Café 1923 in Hamtramck. “Flat Pop 2: Eclectic Boogaloo” is a team effort from Mary and Eric Iverson. The show opened on September 9th, with an opening reception on […]

Hamtramck is a diverse neighborhood, on a constant, gradual shift from Polish immigrant roots toward a thriving artist colony, and more recently, a strong Middle Eastern population. This Saturday, October 20th, Hamtramck will become a living museum for an afternoon-into-evening celebration of the arts. The neighborhood-wide schedule of events kicks off at 1 p.m. and includes […]

Kudos to the event staff at the Masonic, obviously doing the best they could with capacity far beyond their usual. Over the last decade, and particularly in recent years, Louis CK has stepped up as the outstanding comedian of his generation. Like all the greats he has a provocative style, but his friendly, average-guy demeanor […]

It’s a banner year for the 555 Gallery in their new space. In an outcome which proves that sometimes the good must be relinquished for the best, the 555 Gallery had the official opening of their new nonprofit gallery, learning center and artist studio space in Mexicantown — formerly the home of the Detroit 3rd […]

“Contour1,” by Brienne Willcock & Robert White, projected onto the back of the Detroit Public Library. Spirits were not dampened by a rainy beginning on Friday, and Woodward Avenue was packed on a cool, clear Saturday evening, with people out to experience and enjoy the DLECTRICITY Festival, mirroring the official Blanche Nuit (“White Night”) taking […]

This way to Signal Return: 1345 Division St. in Detroit’s Eastern Market. Thursday night was an open-studio meet-and-greet at Signal Return, a community letterpress shop (and Knight Arts grantee) that opened in the Eastern Market this summer, and is seeking to gain purchase within the Detroit DIY and art community. The facility is impressive, with […]

Site-specific installations (like this one from Bring to Light 2010, in New York) will draw upon the convergence of light, technology and art. Building on a tradition established in France the mid-’80s, Detroit will join the international festival of electricity known as Nuit Blanche (“White Night”) for the first time this year, with DLECTRICITY — a […]

Dirty Three instigating a good clean vibe at Trinosophes. Like a comet, Dirty Three shows in Detroit are few and far between, but arguably worth the wait. Taking the stage for the first big preview concert at Trinosophes, Dirty Three wasted all of 10 seconds before bringing the energy onstage to a fever pitch. In […]

It is delicate confession for an arts and culture blogger to confess a certain level of discomfort with avant garde cinema. At times it seems the imagery and nonsensical connections are paralleled in their extremity only by the level of seriousness with which they are taken. For my part, I found the offerings at “cosmo(s)politan: […]

The 2nd annual Detroit Design Festival (DDF) kicked off on Wednesday, with an opening night party at the historic Fisher Building, and a wide range of “happenings” to take place continuously or intermittently between September 19-23, at points of interest all over some of Detroit’s most popular neighborhoods. With construction still in progress as of […]

Opening night festivities at Public Pool, located at 3309 Caniff St. in Hamtramck. If you have occasion in the next two months to wander by Public Pool art gallery in Hamtramck, chances are good you will see collage artist George Rahme hard at work in the pop-up studio space he has established there, which opened […]