Part photographer and part performance artist, Liz Cohen uses both mind and body to focus on issues of transformation and belonging while also heading up the photography program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills.
Last year, the Cranbrook Art Museum welcomed home a member of its family for a widely acclaimed photography and performance art event. “Nick Cave: Here Hear” connected Cranbrook to the city of Detroit like never before, and now there’s no going back. The museum is in the midst of yet …
Knight Blog, the blog of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, features writer Rosie Sharp’s visit to “The Cranbrook Salon.” Sharp visited the Museum to examine the exhibition and our newly-formed “Detroit Bluestockings Crew,” a collective of local women who will host events around Detroit.
The Detroit Free Press recently featured the editorial “Artist Nick Cave Embraced Detroit, And We Hugged Him Back,” detailing the incredible impact this project has had on Detroit and the surrounding region.
Mark Stryker of the Detroit Free Press recently compiled his top ten list of metro Detroit exhibitions of 2015, saying, ” Contemporary art is rarely as much fun as Nick Cave’s Soundsuits.”
“Nick Cave: Here Hear” was recently named the second-best exhibition in the country by Hyperallergic, the online arts magazine. The news was also covered by the Detroit Metro Times and the Knight Foundation.
The Nick Cave: Here Hear exhibition at Cranbrook Museum of Art is reviewed by Matthew Biro in the December 2015 issue of Art Forum. “[…]the Cranbrook Art Museum presented a powerful demonstration of Cave’s incisive take on the current sociopolitical climate, while simultaneously evidencing his efforts to assemble alternative communities.”
Santa came a little early last week when I had the opportunity to preview the encyclopedic exhibition of Pewabic Pottery opening Saturday at Cranbrook. One of the largest private collections in the nation, “Simple Forms, Stunning Glazes” features the 117-piece collection of Gerald W. McNeely, recently donated to Cranbrook by …
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