Shapeshifters @ Cranbrook Art Museum | Detroit Art Review

Radicalism Of Detroit’s Underground Past Echoes Today | WDET 101.9

Cranbrook Art Museum opens underground press exhibit | The Oakland Press

Cranbrook’s Latest Art Exhibit Explores the Work of the Detroit Printing Co-op | Hour Detroit

Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Two New Fall Exhibitions

Headspace: Jim Dine’s Glyptotek and The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics and the Joy of Printing Open This Month Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Sept. 15, 2020 — Cranbrook Art Museum opens two new exhibitions this month that will join the exhibition Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art currently on display. The three exhibitions occupy the upper and lower galleries of the museum. The museum […]

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Cranbrook Art Museum’s ‘Shapeshifters’ explores transitions | Detroit News

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The Detroit Printing Co-op: The Politics of the Joy of Printing

The social activism of the 1960s and 1970s gave rise to an “underground press,” which provided an alternative way to publish writings on a variety of issues, including Black empowerment, the quest for civil liberties and workers’ rights, anti-Vietnam war sentiment, and critiques of capitalism. This was not a single press but rather a loose […]

Headspace: Jim Dine’s Glyptotek

Headspace: Jim Dine’s Glyptotek Inspired by a 1984 trip to Glyptothek, Munich’s museum dedicated to antique Greek and Roman sculpture, artist Jim Dine set out to create a book of prints inspired by the collection. He produced forty drawings uniquely designed to function as transparencies in the production of héliogravure prints, a printmaking process used to reproduce the earliest photographs. […]

Cranbrook Art Museum reopens with new hours, policies, and summer exhibition | Metro Times

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Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn

Allie McGhee has been an important pillar of the Detroit art scene for more than five decades with a practice defined by his signature approach to abstraction. This retrospective is a long overdue presentation of significant past works from McGhee’s extensive and dynamic oeuvre, as well as the premiere of ambitious new paintings created for […]

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