Jazz Lounge Is Named After Nearly Four Decades

Tina and Leland Bassett
After 37 years of service and helping to build Music Hall for the Performing Art’s into a national cultural treasure the  “first couple” will  be honored  on February 27th with the dedication of the “Tina and Leland Bassett Lounge”
. Tina and Leland Bassett have been tireless supporters of the historic, art deco [...]

Austria for Beginners

Opening reception Saturday March 7, 2009 from 6-9pm
Museum of New Art

A group of Austrian artists invited from Galerie Lisi Hämmerle will present their art, installations and performances: beginning with a reception on Saturday, March 7 from 6-9pm.
The aim of this exhibition is to examine different understandings of art as both an idea and a [...]

Dirty Show X[XX]: The Greatest (Dirty) Show on Earth

Servitor Sanctum 7 at the Dirty Show, photo by Michael Spleet for 2SnapsUp Photography
 
 

Noir Leather.  City Club.  S&M.  Fetish shows.  Goth culture.  Burlesque.  Tattoos.  Suspension piercings.  Corsets, latex, and vinyl.  Whips and chains.  Ball-gags and blindfolds.  Strap-ons.  Lots of black hair dye.
Welcome to Detroit’s fetish-friendly underground, a thriving community obsessed with the erotic and the [...]

Making His Band: Wanna be Diddy’s Back up?

Music Audition
Saturday, March 21, 2009 – 10:00am – 3:00pm
Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
Rapper Diddy is searching the country for musicians as he puts together an all-star band to back him up on his upcoming tour, and you could be a part of it!
Diddy is putting out the word for male and female musicians [...]

What Would You Do?

Refugees International generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and work to end the conditions that create displacement around the world. Donations to Refugees International, A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, will:
● Increase assistance to Iraqi refugees
● End the crisis in Darfur
● Improve peacekeeping capacity

Refugees International is an independent and powerful voice for lifesaving action. With over 29 years [...]

Woodward Lecture Series: Ed Ruscha, painter

[ May 7, 2009; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. ] One of the most consistently inventive artists of the contemporary period, Ed Ruscha has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media. A painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, the Los Angeles-based Ruscha studied at the Chouinard Art Institute from 1956 through 1960. By the early sixties he was well [...]

Woodward Lecture Series: Roberta Smith, art critic

[ March 5, 2009; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Roberta Smith is an acclaimed art critic and popular lecturer on contemporary art.  She is senior art critic for The New York Times, where she began writing in 1986, and has also served as art critic for The Village Voice, Arts, Artforum, Art in America, Newsweek, and Vogue.  Smith has written numerous essays for catalogues [...]

Call For Entries: Russell Gallery

 
Music/Arts – Exhibit

Now through Saturday, March 7, 2009 at 5:00pm
Call for entries mixed media show. In like a Lion out like a lamb. What does that mean to you?
Drop offs at the Russell Gallery 1600 Clay  Beginning Feb. 28th  no later  than 5pm for a March 14 show.
Contact Laura Deljanin at Russell Gallery, 1600 [...]

UNCF Benefit

[ February 23, 2009 5:00 pm to February 24, 2009 1:00 am. ] Seldom Blues

 Seldom Blues is hosting a fundraiser event on Feb. 23 from 5 p.m. until for the UNCF honoring Betty Brooks, a patron of the arts and community service leader in Detroit. This event is open to the public.

A long time leader in the community, Brooks is the chair council for African American Dance at [...]

Up close and intimate!

[ February 28, 2009; 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Sam Roberts Acoustic Show at HRC Detroit

Hard Rock Cafe Detroit

Join 939 the river for another free river session on saturday, february 28th. catch Sam Roberts up close and personal at the hard rock cafe before his sold out show at st. andrews hall. space is limited so get there early to make sure you catch [...]