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This coming Saturday, February 9th is the last chance to catch “Contorted” —the five-woman group show on display at the Public Pool artspace in Hamtramck. The open gallery sessions have featured a live performance piece “It’s Up There” by Melanie Manos, as well as a live-drawing session with artist Alice V. Schneider, responsible for a [...]
By D.B. Schroeder, Puzzle Piece Theatre Puzzle Piece Theatre, Detroit’s newest professional company, will debut with the Michigan premiere of Anthony Clarvoe’s “Show and Tell”. The play’s setting could not be timelier; the plot follows the investigation after an explosion in an elementary school that leaves a class of 24 students dead. “When we announced [...]
On Friday, February 1, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) (a Knight Arts grantee) held the opening reception for their latest show, the highly conceptual “When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes.” The exhibit features contributions from 80 contemporary artists and more food for artistic thought than could rightly be absorbed in an opening preview. [...]
As temperatures continue to drop, it’s as good a time as any to catch up on your cinema. The Detroit Dreaming Film Festival (DDFF) took place over the course of last weekend (Jan 25-27). The festival, hosted by the Matrix Theatre Company covered a wide range of Detroit-centric topics in feature and short-length presentations. Detroit political oppression [...]
As part of their ongoing Pops Series, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) hosted the Winter Dance Party this weekend. Under the baton of conductor Stuart Chafetz, the orchestra backed the recreation of what was the last tour of breakout pop stars Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. The trio died tragically [...]
For whoever’s counting, the Detroit Film Theatre (DFT) is off to a monster start in 2013, with a second consecutive weekend featuring a documentary about a particular artistic process. Previously, it was the astounding photographic productions of Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, and last weekend it was the far-ranging multi-mediated stylings of cartoonist and set designer-come-fine [...]
The Michigan Opera Theatre provided highlight performances during the opening reception of the 2013 Design Aria, an exhibition which will run at the Detroit Artists Market (DAM) through February 16. The design show itself features an array of disciplines, including jewelry, furniture and lighting fixtures, as well as more conventional wall-hanging or sculptural art pieces, [...]
By a show of hands, the recent coverage that Detroit SOUP received on NBC’s Nightly News didn’t have much to do the over-capacity crowd at last night’s special SOUP event, co-hosted with Kiva Detroit. The event featured four small businesses vying for crowd favorite, rather than the usual mix of prospects for micro-grant funding, which in [...]
Congratulations to ArtPlace’s 104 finalists for 2012-13 Creative Placemaking grants. The finalists represent 72 communities in 33 states, including the Knight resident communities of Charlotte, Detroit, Macon, Miami, Philadelphia, San Jose and St Paul. The finalists were selected based on their potential to transform communities art and culture. The 104 named today were chosen from [...]
On my short list of personality traits that are typical of a successful artist, obsessive perfectionism and a penchant for melancholy are contenders for first place. Possessed of both these traits in spades is photographer Gregory Crewdson, whose creative process in the making of production-intensive still pictures is captured in the documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief [...]
