The Hinterlands present the premiere of their original performance Manifest Destiny! (there was blood on the saddle)

Detroit-based physical theatre company, The Hinterlands, will present
their original, site-specific, psychedelic Western, Manifest Destiny! (there was blood
on the saddle), at the historic Jam Handy Film Studio August 4-6 and August 25-
27 at 8:00 PM. Tickets are $15. For reservations please call 313.454.1756 or email
info@thehinterlandsensemble.org.
Inspired by the larger-than-life figures of Billy The Kid, Calamity Jane, and [...]

Local artists spotted in the Detroit Institute of Arts

The new Kresge Fellows in the visual arts have been announced and in a nice change up, there are some new works on view in the contemporary wing of the DIA, from Mark Newport, Anders Ruhwald and Gary Eleinko. Another treat is the new use of the Walter Gibbs Gallery to showcase work by visitors [...]

Ian Swanson’s “BRB/Total Id Pigs” : One night only, Saturday July 30th @ Re:View Contemporary

Ian Swanson’s one night site-specific performance, BRB/Total Id Pigs, explores the relationship between ordinary objects and the ideas, people, places and events attached to them. Borrowing elements of various ritual paradigms, the performance is designed to remind us how commerce and ephemera shape our reality, asking us to consider how we define ourselves, and how [...]

Review: Re:View’s brandished

Until July 23, Re:View Contemporary presents selected work from Wesley Taylor and Chitra Gopalakrishnan, two recent Cranbrook Academy of Art graduates.  In viewing art, I am thrilled when I discover artists who think deeply and create unique art.  Namely, I love to see those artists that create art that mirrors their unique, inquisitive view of [...]

Might Makes Blight by Andy H.

In May, the Metro Times told the story of a tenant at 1515 Broadway in downtown Detroit, who woke in the middle of the night when a piece of the cornice from the crumbling Wurlitzer Building next door:

Something had crashed partway through the ceiling, cracking several rafters and breaking one completely, sending it through [...]

Review: DAM Unmentionables

Drawings by Vagner Whitehead
Until July 16, 2011, the Detroit Artists Market presents Unmentionables: The Underwear Show.
Jack Summers and Gary Eleinko curated the show, and they used this platform to challenge established artists. They asked artists to create work based on this theme, so it was not a traditional call for entry process. Jack told me [...]

“Barely There – MOCAD’s mission accomplished” : by Colin Darke

For a college final exam, I worked with a group of students to conceive of and participate in a performance art piece. We clashed on every idea. Our final idea frustrated me, because I thought it was devoid of any conceptual or artistic merit.
The day of the final we were in the [...]