From performances to workshops, music and dialogues, tours and so much more, there will be eleven days of programs to help celebrate the Grand Reopening of Cranbrook Art Museum. 

Friday, November 11
7-9pm: ArtMember’s Opening Reception

Saturday, November 12

Face of Our Time examines more than 100 works by five
photographers-Jacob Aue Sobol, Jim Goldberg, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, and Richard Misrach-who operate within what Walker Evans referred to as the “documentary style.” Sharing an interest in making pictures that capture what the world looks like, they observe the sometimes volatile civil and political transformations facing society and look reflectively at contemporary culture, recording history as it unfolds slowly over time.

Exhibition runs through February 5. 

Nick Cave is an American fabric sculptor, dancer, and performance artist best known for his figurative sculptural “Soundsuits.” Constructed of found materials and designed to rattle and resonate in concert with the movement of the wearer, these works reference a range of cultural, ritualistic, and ceremonial concepts. Cave discusses his work as Performa, focusing on strategies that mobilize, activate, instigate, and escalate. 

Thursday, November 10, 5:10pm at the Historic Michigan Theater. 

Terry Smith, a renowned art and social historian, is one of the world’s premier theorists on creating new pathways for how to think about art history. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh and visiting professor in architecture at the University of Sydney (Australia). Smith’s expertise lies in world contemporary art including its practice, theory, institutions and markets. His recent book, What is Contemporary Art?, won him one of the most significant honors in arts criticism, the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award, in 2010. His newest book, Contemporary Art: World Currents, is the first comprehensive worldwide survey of contemporary art from the 1980s to present. Smith’s ground-breaking book Making the Modern: Industry, Art and Design in America won the inaugural Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Prize in 2009 for the best book on American modernist art published in the past 25 years. 

Thursday, November 10, 7-9pm at Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium College for Creative Studies Walter and Josephine Ford Campus. 

 

Exhibition runs through December 17. 

 

Barbara Melnik Carson, Birgit Hutterman-Holz, Patricia Izzo. All artists pointed out that their histories (as all of mankind) has been made up of both HeroInes and Serpents…the light and the dark…the good and the evil. This has become a basic motivation in much of their art. 

Michigan artists 18 and older are invited to enter the Anton Art Center’s 38th Michigan Annual exhibition, and vie for over $1,500 in prizes.

Juror Andrea Eis of Oakland University will review all submissions and select the works of art to be displayed in the Anton Art Center’s Main Galleries. In addition, Eis will select first, second, and third place winners to receive cash awards sponsored by The Anton Art Center of $800, $500 and $300, respectively.     

Works in all media that conform to the guidelines may be submitted to the Michigan Annual XXXVIII. Works must be original, completed in the last two years, and cannot have been previously exhibited at the Anton Art Center.     

Deadline for application, entry fee, and digital images January 3.