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Nick Cave
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Artist Nick Cave launches ambitious projects in Detroit | Detroit Free Press

Go ahead, Nick. Strike a pose. Nick Cave, a leading contemporary artist, was having his picture taken on the Peristyle in front of the Cranbrook Art Museum on a blustery Friday wearing one of his signature soundsuits — wearable costumes that connect the dots between sculpture, fashion design, body art …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
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The Rebirth of the Motor City | Virgin Atlantic Blog

And, in another upcoming artistic highpoint, musician and creative Nick Cave will be bringing his performance, Here Hear, to Motor City from April onwards. Cave, a native of the Detroit suburbs, will pose in one of his distinctive ‘soundsuits’ in locations around the city; the work will also comprise a …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
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Oakland Press Photos for Week of April 6, 2015 | Oakland Press

Nick Cave, wearing his ornate Soundsuit, poses for photos outside the Cranbbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills. The musician and Cranbrook Art Academy alumnus will shoot site-specific photos for a book to be published this summer, “Nick Cave: Greetings from Detroit,” depicting the positive creativity of the area. Cave will …


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Press Releases
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Cranbrook Opens Its Doors to Showcase Graduate Work and Work Spaces

Bloomfield Hills, Mich., April 9, 2015 – The 2015 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art opens to the public with a special ArtMembers’ Opening Reception on April 18, and will showcase work from the next generation of architects, artists and designers who are shaping the future of art …


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Press Releases
collage of Nick Cave colorful costumes

Cranbrook Art Museum and Nick Cave Announce “Nick Cave: Here Hear”

Photo by James Prinz Photography. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Seven-month project includes Museum exhibition and Cave’s “Biggest, Baddest Performance Series!” Bloomfield Hills, Mich., March 30, 2015 – This spring, summer, and fall, Cranbrook Art Museum and Detroit will serve as the backdrop for Nick …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
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Perfomance Artist Nick Cave Plans July-Oct. Events ‘To Give Back’ to Detroit | Deadline Detroit

More coolness is coming our way. It involves sculptor Nick Cave, a performance artist not to be mistaken for the Australian musician-songwriter of that name.


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
animal sculptures in colorful fabrics

Sound of the City: A Detroit Renaissance, Courtesy of Nick Cave | ARTnews

The artist Nick Cave, whose Soundsuit sculptures have become something of a fixture in contemporary art, will spearhead an expansive exhibition in Detroit beginning this summer that will consist predominantly of public performances and events throughout the metropolitan area. The show, called “Here Hear,” will be more or less headquartered …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Nick Cave
figure jumping in blue and orange fabric

Nick Cave to Take Over Detroit With Colorful Soundsuits and Pop-Up Dance Shows | Observer / Gallerist

Get ready Detroit, Nick Cave is coming for you—Soundsuits in tow. For the next seven months, the Cranbrook Art Museum and the greater city of Detroit will play host to the artist’s most ambitious project to date. Mr. Cave, a 1989 graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, will return to the …


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Cranbrook Art Museum in the News
Harry Bertoia
gold metal necklace, Saarinen

Cranbrook Opens Exhibit of Bertoia Jewelry | Oakland Press

A new exhibit opens March 14 at Cranbrook Art Museum, featuring the jewelry designed by Harry Bertoia, one of the Cranbrook Academy of Art’s most illustrious alumni and one of a cadre of artists educated at Cranbrook during the 1930s and ’40s who influenced American design in the mid-20th century. …


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Hall Of Wonders
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Curating a Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities Hyperallergic

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — The centuries-old tradition of the Wunderkammer is enjoying a resurgence of late, with cabinets of curiosities on display from the Chazen Museum of Art to Gagosian Gallery, and vitrine artists like Edmund de Waal and Joseph Beuys being hailed as champions of the medium.


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