Cranbrook Art Museum Announces Fall Exhibition Series

Exhibitions opening November 18 include: Ryan McGinness: Studio Views and Collection Views Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980 Keith Haring: The End of the Line Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films Bloomfield Hills, Mich., July 25, 2017 — This fall, Cranbrook Art Museum will open a series of exhibitions by artists who all operate at the intersection of art and street culture. The exhibitions include Ryan McGinness: Studio Views and Collection Views; Basquiat Before Basquiat: East 12th Street, 1979-1980; Keith Haring: The End of the Line; and Maya Stovall: Liquor Store Theatre Performance Films. “Detroit is renowned for its vibrant and innovative street culture, a place where life meets art. If we’re lucky and aware, we hear it, we see it, and we feel it. In this spirit, we explore four contemporary artists’ unique responses to urban life. Their artistic practices, each in their own fantastic fashion, are personal journeys that move fluidly from ...

Tony Hawk Partners on New Skate Park to Open in Downtown Detroit | Detroit Free Press

A computer rendering of the new Tony Hawk-designed skatepark that will be opening in Detroit on Aug. 16. (Photo: Library Street Collective)Tony Hawk is bringing a skate park to downtown Detroit. The skateboarding legend is overseeing the design of the modular pocket park that initially will sit at the corner of Farmer and Monroe, one block northeast of Campus Martius. It's scheduled to open Aug. 16. The Wayfinding skate park will not only be the first of its kind in downtown Detroit, it will also double as a performance space and public art installation featuring the work of acclaimed contemporary artist Ryan McGinness. The project is a partnership between contemporary art gallery Library Street Collective, real estate powerhouse Bedrock, the Quicken Loans family of companies and the Cranbrook Art Museum, which will host a new exhibit of McGinness’s work starting on Nov. 17 and oversee additional cultural programming at the skate ...

Cranbrook Art Museum Presents Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape

Features work from alumni and Artists-in-Residence BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., May 8, 2017 – On May 12, Cranbrook Art Museum will open a new exhibition, Cranbrook: A New Domestic Landscape, which features contemporary furniture and furnishings by recent alumni and Artists-in-Residence of Cranbrook Academy of Art. The work challenges conventions of use, explores new materials and techniques, and blurs the boundaries between art, craft, and design. The exhibition will run from May 12, 2017 through January 14, 2018. Long a hotbed of experimental design, Cranbrook Academy of Art has played an important role in envisioning artifacts for living—from the handcrafted production of the Arts and Crafts period, the birth of mid-century modernism in America, to the art furniture movement of the 1980s. Today, this progressive approach continues with artists, architects, and designers who expand these legacies of handcrafted production, custom fabrication, and experiments in form, materials, and processes in their own unique ways. “Cranbrook ...

Cranbrook grad art show opens Sunday, April 23 | The Oakland Press

One uses a wedding dress to explore like a thread to bind the use of different media, another bends wood into an irresistible structure and another uses intricate patterns to explore both personal and political history. The new artworks are part of one of Oakland County’s top cultural events every year, the annual Graduate Degree Exhibition of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, which opens to the public Sunday, April 23, and will be on display through May 14. As part of the exhibition, the Academy also opens its studios to visitors from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Cranbrook spokeswoman Julie Fracker says the Academy’s graduating class is bit smaller than in 2016. But 64 students are displaying their work from multiple disciplines in the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, she says. For Anita Enriquez, a student in the Academy of Art’s Fiber Department, fiber, sculpture, architecture, video as well literature and performance art ...

Cranbrook graduates have big ideas for annual student show  | Detroit Metro Times

Fundamentally, metro Detroit's two most prominent art schools — the College for Creative Studies and the Cranbrook Academy of Art — couldn't be more different. While both are located off of Woodward Avenue, they're worlds apart: CCS in the city's core, and Cranbook in leafy, suburban Bloomfield Hills.Of course, an environment inevitably informs an artist's work, and it's easy to see this with Cranbrook's annual graduate student exhibition. While CCS's student work may have more of an emphasis on technical virtuosity, Cranbrook's student art tends to be — much like its wooded campus — sprawling, often featuring elaborate, large-scale installation work. This year's show features the work of the 64 graduates from Cranbrook's two-year Master's program. The school has 10 departments,with fewer than a dozen students in each. Cranbrook's is the only completely studio-based program in the country — there are no classes. Students live and work on campus, working directly ...

Cranbrook Art Museum Presents the U.S. Debut of the Exhibition “Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe”

This first comprehensive exhibition of the influential designer opens June 17 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., April 17, 2017 –This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum will host the U.S. debut of the landmark exhibition Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe, the first major retrospective of this former Grosse Pointe resident known for injecting joy and humanism, history and handicraft, into environments that greatly enriched the visual language of mid-century modernism. The exhibition will run from June 17 through October 8, 2017. While figures such as Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Ruth Adler Schnee, and others are considered in the pantheon of mid-century modernism that was birthed in Michigan, Alexander Girard was less well-known but just as influential and important. “Girard is the secret sauce in a new kind of modernism that would emerge at mid-century, a distinctly American one that embraced the handcrafted, the whimsical, the decorative, the colorful — nearly ...

Cranbrook Academy of Art Graduate Degree Exhibition Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on April 23

Exhibition Preview on April 22 OPEN(STUDIOS) Returns on April 30 BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 21, 2017 --The 2017 Graduate Degree Exhibition of Cranbrook Academy of Art opens to the public on April 23 and will showcase work from more than 60 graduating Cranbrook Academy of Art students. Featuring pieces that are the culmination of two years of studio work from a diverse group of students, visitors will see firsthand what it takes to become tomorrow’s creative leaders. The exhibition will run from April 23 through May 14, 2017, at Cranbrook Art Museum. A special ArtMembers Opening Reception will be held on April 22 from 6-9pm. Memberships may be purchased in advance via our website or at the door that evening. The exhibition will fill the entire Upper Galleries of Cranbrook Art Museum. It is the most diverse exhibition offered all year as it showcases work from the Academy’s 10 departments – 2D and 3D ...

Finland 100: The Cranbrook Connection Opens at Cranbrook Art Museum on March 21

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 15, 2017 – Cranbrook Art Museum is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of our new exhibition, Finland 100: The Cranbrook Connection, which recognizes Finland’s centennial of independence and examines the profound influence this country has had on the development of the arts in America. The exhibition opens March 21 and runs through January 14, 2018. According to Andrew Blauvelt, Director of Cranbrook Art Museum, design has always been a special strength of Finnish culture, exemplified by the Cranbrook campus itself. When designing Cranbrook, architect Eliel Saarinen blended the national romantic style he helped forge in his native Finland, with the Art Nouveau and Art Deco influences prominent in America at the time. Saarinen’s comprehensive philosophy that one should design in the context of the next larger thing—from the chair to the room to the house to the city—meant that no element of the built environment should ...

“The Truth Is I Hear You” Debuts Public Screening at the Arab American National Museum on February 16

Additional film screenings in Detroit and Flint BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., Feb. 15, 2017 -- This summer, The Truth Booth set out on a tour of 11 locations in metro Detroit and Flint, giving more than 1,000 residents the opportunity to record a statement starting with the words, “The Truth Is…” The result is a 48-minute film showcasing local residents’ private hopes, desires and concerns. This film is currently on display at Cranbrook Art Museum, but this week, will also be shown in some of the neighborhoods where the testimonials were recorded. On Thursday, February 16, it will debut at the Arab American National Museum (AANM) in Dearborn, Michigan, where it will air continually during museum hours from February 16 through March 1. Cranbrook Art Museum will also host a special one-day screening at Play House in Detroit on February 22. Residents of the nearby Banglatown neighborhoods are featured in the film, and there will also ...

Cranbrook Art Museum Exhibits Period Rooms | The Detroit News

“Cranbrook Time Machine: Twentieth Century Period Rooms” is a small but utterly charming show of four interiors that all channel the zeitgeist of their respective eras. Drawn from Cranbrook’s vast reserves of furniture and artifacts, these little stage sets variously represent the early Arts and Crafts aesthetic that emerged in England during the late Victorian Period, the 1960s bachelor pad, a 1970s experiment in cave dwelling and a post-modern fun house circa 1980. The show was curated by museum director Andrew Blauvelt and Laura Mott, curator of contemporary art and design. Of the four spaces, “The Bachelor Pad” is easily the most fun with its styling from TV’s “Mad Men.” It’s heavy on modernist furniture by George Nelson, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, and rich in accessories ripped from the pages of a Playboy magazine guide to stylish and irreproachable masculinity: ashtrays, tumblers, cocktail shakers and other symbols of virility. Death and virility seemed to ...

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