Nene Humphrey
Nene Humphrey became interested in the practice of Victorian mourning braiding—in which jewelry and keepsakes were made using the hair of departed loved ones—when coping with the death of her…
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Landscapes in Chaos: Nabil Mousa at the Arab American National Museum
Atlanta-based painter Nabil Mousa’s “American Landscape” series (2008–12) trades in readily identifiable symbols: the American flag, the gendered iconography of restroom signs, and the Human…
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Low-Risk Aesthetics: Institutional Critique at MOCA Cleveland
Certainly the openness of potential interpretation is one of art's great pleasures and social functions, but I confess to a degree of weariness around the act of raising questions without offering…
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Strains of Dissent: Art and Music at MOCAD
"Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance" at MOCAD juxtaposes documents of activist histories with presentations that emphasize listening to music as a private experience.
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Painting Hidden History: Nicole Macdonald’s Detroit Murals
The Big B Liquor Party Store, which holds down the northeast corner of the intersection of Trumbull Ave and the I-94 freeway in Detroit's Woodbridge neighborhood, has taken on a different character o…
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Seeds of Resistance: Complex Movements in Detroit
As powers that be move to reorganize Detroit, what becomes of the communities who have held it together through a time of abandonment? What becomes of the individuals who cannot conform to the new ord…
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Forms of Address: Ray Johnson’s Bob Boxes
For legendary mail and collage artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995), any ephemera of everyday material culture he encountered could potentially be art—including the bottle caps, abandoned toys, tennis balls…
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Experimental Mindset: An Interview with Andrew Blauvelt
There's change in the air at the Cranbrook Art Museum, where Andrew Blauvelt, a 1988 MFA graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art's design department, begins his new job as director this month. A…
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United States of Latin America: A Conversation with Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra
The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is buzzing with activity in preparation for the opening of "United States of Latin America" (Sept. 18, 2015-Jan. 3, 2016), organized by Jens Hoffmann…
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