HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Borders are a slippery concept, one that seems to exist only in theory most of the time, but occasionally manifests in reality dramatically.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She has shown work in New York, Seattle, Columbus and Toledo, OH, and Detroit — including at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research in the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
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The Surprisingly Improvisational Sounds of Automatic Music
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Musicians throughout the ages have wrestled with the question of creative control, and in our modern age, some have found an answer in technology.
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Building Monuments Amid Detroit’s Modern Day Ruins
DETROIT — It is easy, when considering the staggering legacy of human history, to think about it as a series of things that took place in the past.
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Art X Detroit Lives Up to the City’s Vibrant Cultural Life
DETROIT — Trying to notice the impact of the Kresge Foundation on the arts in Detroit is like a fish trying to notice water.
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Women’s Rage: A Conversation with the Creator of ‘Bitch Planet’
A comic book industry veteran for the last decade, Kelly Sue DeConnick first earned her chops adapting manga to English.
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An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures
DETROIT — How often is an artist willing to introduce an element of chance to her solo gallery opening?
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One City, Two Experimental Plays, a Whole Lot of Creative Women
Last week was an outstanding one for experimental theater in Detroit.
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A Detroit Artist Specializing in Gooey Abstraction and Concrete Social Change
DETROIT — While it takes more than a few encounters with Jonathan Rajewski to begin to unravel a sense of him as a person, one instinctively and immediately recognizes his art as the work of a virtuoso.
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Curating a Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — The centuries-old tradition of the Wunderkammer is enjoying a resurgence of late, with cabinets of curiosities on display from the Chazen Museum of Art to Gagosian Gallery, and vitrine artists like Edmund de Waal and Joseph Beuys being hailed as champions of the medium.
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Feeling at Home with Alison Bechdel
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When it comes to creating an installation of the work of cartoonist Alison Bechdel, a curator is faced with more than the usual conundrums of what merits inclusion.
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Reading David Foster Wallace for the Colors
DETROIT — When a tweet from @CorrieBaldauf breaks into your Twitterstream, it is captivating and disorienting for a number of reasons. More often than not, she is live-tweeting her progress through her latest iteration of the Infinite Jest Project, an exercise in literature, obsession, and social media that Baldauf has been working on since 2013.
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A Biennial Beyond the Art World
DETROIT — The People’s Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) successfully draws on the founding concept of the biennial art event, with the original model of the Venice Biennale in 1895 intended to be a sort of World’s Fair of contemporary art.
