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2014 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art

The 2014 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art opens to the public on April 22, and will showcase work from the next generation of architects, artists and designers who are shaping the future of art and design. The exhibition features pieces that are the culmination of two years …

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Modern / Moderna: Amie Siegel and Terence Gower

Witness an exploration of Modernism through the examination of two contemporary artworks: Amie Siegel’s The Modernists, a reassembled personal archive of found travel photographs and film footage of an unknown couple during the 1960s-80s; and Terence Gower’s Ciudad Moderna, a re-imagining of a popular 1966 Mexican film where the architecture …

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Cranbrook Goes to the Movies: Films and Their Objects, 1925–1975

Cranbrook and the camera grew up together. In the 1920s, as George and Ellen Booth were realizing their dream of a community dedicated to art, science, and education, amateur filmmaking flourished as a newly affordable hobby. These two historical trajectories—that of an educational community and of a medium that has …

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Culture Breakers: The Living Structures of Ken Isaacs

Throughout a career spanning over half a century, former Cranbrook Academy of Art student and instructor Ken Isaacs (b. 1927) radically deconstructed conventional notions of modernism. His Living Structures—hand-made, low-cost, multifunctional furniture and architectural units—challenged ideas of how people could sit, work, and live within their own homes and the …

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Warhol On Vinyl: The Record Covers, 1949-1987+

Andy Warhol envisioned the record cover as a means to popularize his name as an artist and, once he reached iconic status in the 1960s, used it to directly impact popular culture. Designed to be collected by the masses, the records—numbering more than fifty— reinforce his maxim “repetition adds up …