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Lou Reed
man at piano talks into microphone

Time is Running Out to Catch the Lou Reed Installation at Cranbrook | Detroit Metro Times

Was it one of the iconoclastic rock ‘n’ roll innovator’s greatest works, or was it his most flawed statement this side of Lulu? Was the double album a carefully crafted work that expanded on experiments made by the founders of minimalism a decade earlier, or was it a hastily conceived …


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Simple Forms, Stunning Glazes
blue, black, and brown vases in various data-lazy-sizes

The Deep-Rooted Expression of Ceramics | Hyperallergic

One does not, perhaps, consider ceramic objects to be immediately gendered, possess sexuality, or be particularly political. But pottery is one of the oldest practices among humans, and is so rooted in fundamental domestic and utilitarian concerns that there is literally no known human society that has not made vessels …


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Textiles

Loja Saarinen and Eliel Saarinen – Study for the Festival of the May Queen Tapestry – 1932

Loja Saarinen and Eliel Saarinen (Loja Saarinen (Designer) and Eliel Saarinen (Designer and Draftsman))

Study for the Festival of the May Queen Tapestry, 1932

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Metalworks

Eliel Saarinen and Walter von Nessen – Torchere – 1928-32

Eliel Saarinen and Walter von Nessen (Designers)

Kingswood School Cranbrook Dining Hall Torchère, designed circa 1928, manufactured 1932

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Metalworks

J. Robert F. Swanson – Candelabrum

J. Robert F. Swanson (Designer)

Candelabrum, designed 1935, manufactured 1947

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Paintings

Zoltan Sepeshy – Mural – 1941

Zoltan Sepeshy

Study for The Scientist, Artist and Farmer Mural, Rackham Building, Detroit, Michigan, 1941

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