Interview with Andrew Blauvelt and discussion of upcoming summer exhibition, “Landlord Colors” | Detroit Free Press

For the Cranbrook Art Museum based in Bloomfield Hills, the motivation to move their focus downtown is partially spurred on by the rush of grant dollars flooding the Detroit arts scene. In 2014, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded the museum $150,000 for its "Nick Cave: Here Hear" project as part of the Knight Arts Challenge — a series of low-entry grants that require individuals, institutions and non-profit organizations awarded funds to match them within roughly a year of winning.Buy PhotoNick Cave's performance series culminates with a performance called "Figure This:Detroit " presented by the Cranbrook Art Museum at the Detroit Masonic Temple Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. Dancers from all of the three Dance Lab Performances make their way down the center aisle during the finale with Tunde Olaniran singing on stage as they move through the audience to the music. (Photo: Regina H. Boone, Detroit Free Press)A requirement ...

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Cranbrook Art Museum to Open a New Daniel Arsham Exhibition on March 1

Co-founder of Snarkitecture Also Installing “The Beach Detroit”Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February 20, 2019—On March 1, Cranbrook Art Museum will open the new exhibition Daniel Arsham, The Source: A Catalog of Late-20th-Century American Relics, a fictional archaeology of the future through the creation of iconic objects and products of late-twentieth-century American life. The exhibition will open at Cranbrook Art Museum on Friday, March 1, and run through June 23, 2019. Arsham is a New York-based artist who works across the fields of art, architecture, film, and performance. He is also co-founder of Snarkitecture, a collaborative practice known for using everyday materials in unexpected ways to create captivating public installations. Their well-known participatory project, The Beach Detroit, will open to the public in the Campus Martius area of downtown Detroit on March 1, the same day the exhibition opens at Cranbrook Art Museum. The Beach Detroit consists of an ocean of more than one million recyclable, antimicrobial ...

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Daniel Arsham is Bringing the Beach to Detroit | Hip in Detroit

Detroit's art scene will become a little more interesting this week when two separate art exhibits featuring the work of Daniel Arsham open in two separate galleries across town. The New York-based artist and co-creator of Snarkitecture has created two immersive experiences that will take you inside the mind of the artist. Read the full story here.

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A giant ball pit you can jump in is coming to downtown Detroit | Detroit Free Press

A story about The Beach Detroit and Daniel Arsham's exhibition, read the full story here.

McArthur Binion (Painting ’73) in ARTFORUM

In an interview with ARTFORUM, Binion discusses the role memory and narrative has on his practice. Read the full story here.

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CRANBROOK ART MUSEUM ANNOUNCES SUMMER EXHIBITION, LANDLORD COLORS: ON ART, ECONOMY, AND MATERIALITY

On View from June 21 through October 6, 2019 Exhibition will feature works by more than 60 artists produced during periods of economic and social upheaval in Cuba, Greece, Italy, South Korea, and Detroit Michelangelo Pistoletto, Metamorfosi, 1976-2016 (site-specific work), mirror, rags. Courtesy: GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano/Beijing / Les Moulins / Habana. Photo by: Alicia Luxem.Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, January 28, 2018—In the summer of 2019, Cranbrook Art Museum will present Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality, a landmark exhibition showcasing works from five international contemporary art scenes that were born out of post-economic, societal upheaval in their respective 20th and 21st century environments. Curated by Laura Mott, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design at Cranbrook Art Museum, the exhibition will explore how artistic innovation and materiality communicate socio-economic context and paradigmatic shifts, while unearthing a prevailing, cross-cultural narrative. Ranging from seminal historic work to new, site-specific commissions in the museum and ...

Upcoming “Landlord Colors” exhibition profiled in the Financial Times

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Wild Vinyl: Designer Art Toys segment on Detroit news station | WXYZ-TV

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH (WXYZ) — Wild Vinyl: Designer Art Toys is now on display at the Cranbrook Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The exhibit, which will remain on display throught June 2, 2019, showcases a variety of designer toys from individual sculptural figures to outlandish monsters, and will focus on limited edition artist creations and serial productions. Like prints and other forms of art produced in multiples, seriality and variation on a theme dominate the art toy genre.

Saarinen House in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is a total work of art | Star Tribune

JAMES HAEFNER • CRANBROOK CENTER FOR COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH  The 1930 Saarinen House in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., mixes Arts and Crafts and art deco, with Finnish touches. I thought it would be easy, on a Friday afternoon in August, to hop on a tour of Saarinen House, the eclectic 1930 masterwork by Finnish-American architect Eliel Saarinen on the grounds of Cranbrook, an educational community in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Wrong. When my son and I arrived, the Friday and Saturday tours were sold out. Others had wisely booked tickets to see the celebrated house that mixes elements from two design movements, Arts and Crafts and art deco, with dabs of midcentury modern and Finnish touches. Once a hidden gem serving as Saarinen’s private home and studio from 1930 to 1950 — and not open to the public until decades later, after a major restoration — Saarinen House is a hot ticket. But ...

Cranbrook Art Museum Fall Exhibitions Examine Alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art

Exhibitions opening November 17 include: Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped Binion/Saarinen: A McArthur Binion Project Danielle Dean: A Portrait of True RedAnnabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped (installation view), 2017. Photo by Gary Zvonkovic. Courtesy of the artist and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.Bloomfield Hills, Mich., August 16, 2018— This November, Cranbrook Art Museum will open three exhibitions that showcase the incredible range of alumni and Artists-in-Residence that have emerged from Cranbrook Academy of Art and the significant impact they have made in the art world. Annabeth Rosen: Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped; Binion/Saarinen: A McArthur Binion Project; and Danielle Dean: A Portrait of True Red will all open at Cranbrook Art Museum on November 17. The Annabeth Rosen and McArthur Binion exhibitions will run through March 10, 2019, and the Danielle Dean exhibition will close on January 6, 2019 to be followed by an upcoming exhibition by Cranbrook Academy of Art Ceramics Artist-in-Residence, ...