Mary Chase Stratton for Pewabic Pottery (Maker) Jar, 1932

Cranbrook exhibit gets noisy with Lou Reed album | Detroit Free Press

Back in 1975, rock musician Lou Reed nearly drove his now revered career into the ground with the release of his fifth solo album, “Metal Machine Music.” As one of pop culture’s earliest examples of experimental noise (meaning no songs and no structure), the controversial “Metal Machine Music” was largely …

Designs of the Times: 100 Years of Posters at Cranbrook

Designs of the Times is the third exhibition in the Cranbrook Archives ephemera series. The exhibition, which represents Cranbrook’s diverse audiences by exploring both design and history, illustrates the impact of new technologies and the information age on the poster medium as visual communication. Organized chronologically, the exhibition documents the …

Cranbrook Receives Knight Arts Challenge Awards

Cranbrook Art Museum and Anders Ruhwald, Cranbrook Academy of Art Artist-in-Residence, were each awarded separate grants yesterday from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as part of its Detroit Knight Arts Challenge. Cranbrook Art Museum was awarded a $60,000 matching grant to create a Detroit tour of the …

Cranbrook Art Museum Announces New Exhibition Series

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Oct. 12, 2015- Cranbrook Art Museum announces its fall season of exhibitions today, which continue the Museum’s tradition of bringing innovative and interactive contemporary art to the metro Detroit area. Opening on November 21 (with a special ArtMembers’ Opening Reception on November 20) are the exhibitions Lou …

Wearable Artwork Makes Noise Against Racism | Studio 360

This is not a story about Nick Cave the Australian rock star. This is a story about a different Nick Cave: a Missouri-born fabric artist, sculptor, and dancer. Cave has become famous in the art world for what he calls “soundsuits,” wearable sculptures composed of bottle caps, sweaters, toy drums, …

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Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Nick Cave Closes Detroit Stay in Rousing Performance | Detroit Free Press

by Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press Chicago artist Nick Cave wrapped up a seven-month metro Detroit invasion today with a rousing performance featuring local dancers, musicians and a visually stunning helping of his signature Soundsuits.

‘Hear’ today, gone Oct. 11 | Observer & Eccentric Media

“We seek him here. We seek him there. We seek him everywhere.” Though that was the sentiment in the 1900s for heroic Scarlet Pimpernel, the same could hold true today for famed artist Nick Cave.

Experimental Mindset: An Interview with Andrew Blauvelt | Art in America

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. He succeeds Gregory Wittkopp, who has held the dual role of director of the Cranbrook Art Museum and …