“In Spite of the Evidence” at The Gallery Project

[ January 13, 2010 10:00 pm to February 21, 2010 10:00 pm. ] Opening Wednesday Jan 13, 2010 through Sunday Feb 21, 2010
Reception Friday Jan 15, 6:00-9:00 PM
Curated by Jack O. Summers

Melissa Jones“Just the facts please” is what Jack Webb would say on the old TV program“ Dragnet.” Today the quest and respect for facts and information has taken a back seat to opinion, spin, distortion, misrepresentation and [...]

The Prinzhorn Prize Exhibition for Christo and Jeanne-Claude

[ December 11, 2009; 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. December 11, 2009 6:00 pm to January 16, 2010 6:00 pm. 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Prinzhorn Winners Announced

As a creative community, Detroit is both vibrant and fertile. New galleries breed excitement here. As CCS Professor of Fine Art Gilda Snowden exclaimed as she pushed into the packed inaugural show at The Butchers Daughter “Detroit is rockin’, we open galleries when other places close galleries.” Re:View Contemporary has become an [...]

Detroit: Breeding Ground Exhibit Lives On In Print and Video

Michael McGillis, “Grommet”
Politely curious about why I have been redefining my base in Detroit, my son asked, “what are things like in Detroit?” After he has been living and working for ten years on a bucolic campus in Alexandria Virginia and now living on a boat in Seattle for three years I knew [...]

MONA Announces Prinzhorn Prize Winners

Mountain Man by Nicole Eisenman
The Museum of New Art (MONA), the first artist-run museum in the world, has announced the winner of its Prinzhorn International Art Prize for contemporary artists. The Detroit museum was founded in 1996 by artists who wanted to create a space for the exploration of new art and to encourage critical [...]

Detroit As A Visual Culture

Rabbit Girl
We are a visual culture. So why must we insist that this culture exists anywhere but here? Jef Bourgeau, director of MONA, has been exposing Detroit one exhibit at a time. Featured this Saturday, March 7th are three exhibits at the Museum of New Art, one in which highlights a group of [...]

Gallery Project

[ January 21, 2009; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Change

Gallery Project presents Change, an exhibit encouraging artists to comment visually on features of America that they feel need altering for the good of society. The exhibit opens on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 and runs through Sunday, March 1. The opening reception is Friday, January 23 from 6-9.

The exhibit’s focus is on [...]