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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
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Sculptor Nick Cave to Host Solo Exhibit at Cranbrook Academy of Arts | DBusiness

Cranbrook Academy of Arts graduate and well-known artist Nick Cave will have a solo exhibit at the Bloomfield Hills Academy, including a collection of about 30 wearable fabric sculptures, along with other sculptures and his video work. The exhibit opens Saturday. The 7,000 square foot exhibit, Here Hear, will feature 11 …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
Assortment of humanoid fabric sculptures

Nick Cave Launches an Electrifying Exhibition and Performance Series | Architectural Digest

This weekend marks the beginning of a major exhibition of work by Nick Cave at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, a small town just north of Detroit. It’s a homecoming for the artist, who studied at Cranbook’s art academy in the 1980s and still feels a connection to both …


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Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse

Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse

Waylande Gregory (1905-1971) redefined American ceramics in the 1930s and 1940s, creating monumental ceramic sculptures and helping to shape Art Deco design in the United States. Featuring over 60 works by the artist, Waylande Gregory: Art Deco Ceramics and the Atomic Impulse highlights Gregory’s role as the chief designer and …


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The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking

Focusing primarily on the work of Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010), one of the most notable mathematicians of the twentieth century, this exhibition explores the role of images in scientific thinking. With their capacity to generate and shape knowledge, images are at the very core of scientific investigation: charts, graphs, notebooks, instrument …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
Colorful fabric figures stand on white surface

Nick Cave returns to Cranbrook | Detroit Metro Times

Missouri-born, Chicago-based artist Nick Cave has made a name for himself with his colorful “Soundsuits” — ornate, wearable sculptures that have been exhibited as standalone art objects and costumed dance performances. Lately, he’s partnered with his alma mater the Cranbrook Academy of Art (Cave is an ’89 graduate of their …


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My Brain Is In My Inkstand

My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process

My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process

My Brain Is in My Inkstand: Drawing as Thinking and Process is an original exhibition debuting at Cranbrook Art Museum that brings together 22 artists from around the world to redefine the notion of drawing as a thinking process in the arts and sciences alike. Sketches on paper are the …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
Colorful fabric figures stand on white surface

Nick Cave Soundsuits invade Cranbrook — and Detroit | Detroit Free Press

When Nick Cave arrived at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987, he was the only African American in his class. He felt as out of place on the idyllic suburban campus in Bloomfield Hills as a penguin on the prairie. Cave escaped as often as he could to Detroit, …


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Exhibitions
Harry Bertoia
man with a pipe works on ceramic pottery

The Master of Metals : An Exhibition at Cranbrook Explores Harry Bertoia’s Jewelry and the Forging of His Career | Modern Magazine

A WRITHING CENTIPEDE WROUGHT in hammer­ed brass and a gold necklace evoking the decayed, wilted sepals of a plant are among the jewelry de­signs on view in the Cranbrook Art Museum’s ex­hibition Bent, Cast, and Forged: The Jewelry of Harry Bertoia. To celebrate the centennial of the artist’s birth, the …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
two figures dressed in colorful fabrics

Nick Cave and the Good Seeds | W Magazine

“Detroit was such a pivotal part of my time at school,” says the artist Nick Cave who attended Cranbrook in nearby Bloomfield Hills. When his alma mater approached him to do exhibition there, he told them, “I would only do the show if I could do some work in Detroit. …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
humanoid figure with red target stands in front of painted house

Nick Cave Revisits Detroit, Soundsuits in Tow | T: The New York Times Style Magazine

When the Cranbrook Art Museum asked to host his inaugural solo outing in Michigan, the artist and dancer — and Cranbrook Academy of Art alum — Nick Cave agreed, on one condition: “I said, I will only do it if I can do work in Detroit.” For the uninitiated, the …


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