Category : art

…installation called Malarky – made of cast-offs, recycled & repurposed materials – in the “Melbourne Now” exhibition (a huge survey of 175 local artists, exactly what you want to see if you are passing through a town for the first time) at the National Gallery of Victoria was an exciting standout, where you could overhear every ..

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…are on display with exuberant engaging street vibes in two current installations indoors and out; one on Cass with the Purple Stage supported by Arts Corps Detroit taking over a vacant lot, and the other a vast interior landscape of pimped out cars and dried corn husks called Visions in a Cornfield (by Destroy All ..

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…is the project studio I am starting today at Wayne State, exploring the unique way that Detroit art collectives (including Dflux: Detroit Research Studio, Heidelberg Project, The Hinterlands, Market Studio Kitchen + Detroit Emergent Futures LAB, MBAD Bead Museum, Popps Packing, Power House Productions and Design 99, The Edible Hut, TAP (The Alley Project) Gallery, Yes ..

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…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring ..

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…along with a few of their students popped their heads into the Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics dome this afternoon, sharing their queer energy and outfits, here at the Hayward Gallery where they are leading “Teach Us Everywhere” down the hall. (thei..

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…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’). Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by Anne LeBaron, libretto by Douglas Kearney, and directed by Yuval Sharon. It’s the inaugural production of The Industry, a new home for new and experimental opera in ..

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…of old clothes from local friends is a new test at home (in shades of brown and a bit of orange for the brown with orange kitchen) with a new loose knotted technique that makes it super thick and cushy and cozy on bare feet, preparing for the new series of Domestic Integrity Field projects ..

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…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening soon (but not as soon as they thought while battling some construction and eccentrically shaped glass fabrication issues) and cool to see in person, but even more interesting to see a small monument on the adjacent piece of land – that will soon become a sculpture park – ..

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…in a gallery space at UNC Greenboro where piles of cast-off clothes are slowly being transformed into a rainbow-colorful rug, braided with the help of students (each making their own personal braid which can be finished and absorbed into the spiral rug when they leave) being nourished with my homemade soup of locally sourced produce ..

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…is a local arts space started over 10 years ago  by George Scheer (in the buildings where his grandmother ran a thrift store for decades) which I had heard a few stories about but nothing prepared me for the inspiring visit this afternoon, encountering room after room after room after room after insane (in a good ..

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