Punk art shouts from the walls of Cranbrook in new show | OAKLAND PRESS

By Joseph Szczesny, For Digital First Media Punk music has made loud waves ever since the 1970s. But the punk sensibility also caught on with visual artists, who used a variety of media to stretch the philosophy of punk beyond music into different corners of popular culture, says Andrew Blauvelt, the director of the Cranbrook Art Museum and the curator of the new show making its debut at the museum with a preview party Friday, June 15. It opens to the public Saturday, June 16.Andrew Blauvelt, director of the Cranbrook Art Museum and curator of the new show “Too Fast to Live. Too Young To Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 and Shepard Fairey. Salad Days, 1989-1999” debuting at the museum June 15 & 16, 2018. Photo by Joseph Szczesny/Digital First MediaThe exhibition, “Too Fast to Live. Too Young To Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 and Shepard Fairey. Salad Days, 1989-1999” is actually two shows ...

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How punk rock changed the course of design history | CO. DESIGN

BY KELSEY CAMPBELL-DOLLAGHANImage: PD Rearick/courtesy Cranbrook MuseumPunk, and its associated subcultures, revolutionized design practice. A slew of new shows and books reckons with its impact. Do you remember the first zine someone put in your hands? If you lived through punk’s heydey, or any of the subcultures that reverberated down from its birth to echo into the mid-aughts, you probably came across more than a few of them. Variable in quality, self-printed, gratuitously niche, and often full of self-referential winks, zine culture existed at a precise moment when computers were becoming more common, but social networks hadn’t yet made the notion of communicating with your peers on paper irrelevant. They mixed DIY culture and nascent technology with music and art. You sent away for them, hoarded them, and published your own responses, even if you were a high schooler imagining a culture thousands of miles–and probably a decade or two–away from your ...

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Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics 1976-1986 opens at Cranbrook Art Museum | DEZEEN

Photo by PD Rearick"If punk birthed a thousand garage bands, it certainly birthed as many designers," says Punk Graphics curator By Gunseli Yalcinkaya The curator of a new exhibition on punk graphics at Detroit's Cranbrook Art Museum, has selected five key works that explore the movement in the United States and United Kingdom. The exhibition titled Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics 1976-1986 focuses on the visual development of punk culture between 1976 and 1986. It contains approximately 500 of punk's most memorable graphics – including flyers, posters, albums and zines. "Since its rebellious inception in the 1970s, punk has always exhibited very visual forms of expression," said curator Andrew Blauvelt. "The energy of the movement created a powerful subcultural phenomena that transcended music to affect other fields such as visual art and design," he explained. "Punk provided many new opportunities for designers" The exhibition aims to show punk "as a heterogeneous design ...

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Chris Scoates Announces Departure from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum

  Chris Scoates Announces Departure from Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., March 29, 2018 -- Cranbrook Educational Community announced today that Chris Scoates has resigned as Director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum. Scoates will stay at the Academy through the end of the academic year, after which time he will begin a new position as Director of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. His last day at the Academy will be June 30. “Chris has overseen the Academy during a particularly challenging time for art schools across the country, and has managed to steer the school in a positive direction, while also providing institutional oversight for one of the country’s top contemporary art museums,” said Dominic DiMarco, President of Cranbrook Educational Community. “He has brought forward several creative new initiatives to move the Academy into the future, and for that we are ...

“Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986” and “Shepard Fairey: Salad Days 1989-1999” Open at Cranbrook Art Museum in June

Exhibitions Run from June 16 through October 7, 2018 Opening Celebration: June 15, 2018 Bloomfield Hills, Mich., March 5, 2018—This summer, Cranbrook Art Museum will organize the largest exhibition of its kind exploring the unique visual language of the punk and post-punk movements from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986 will feature hundreds of graphics—including many rare flyers, posters, albums, promotions, and zines. “Since its rebellious inception in the 1970s, punk has always exhibited very visual forms of expression,” says Director of Cranbrook Art Museum Andrew Blauvelt, who is curating the exhibition. “From the dress and hairstyles of its devotees and the on-stage theatrics of its musicians to the graphic design of its numerous forms of printed matter. As such, punk’s energy coalesced into a powerful subcultural phenomena that transcended music to affect other fields such as visual art and design.” In conjunction with ...

Cranbrook Art Museum Presents True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICH., Feb. 28, 2018 – Cranbrook Art Museum will open the new exhibition True to Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection on March 10, 2018. Drawing from the Museum's holdings of more than 6,000 objects of art, design, and craft, True to Form celebrates Museum favorites alongside newly-acquired works debuting for the first time. It will open during regular business hours, 11am-5pm. True to Form is thematically arranged into three different sections, each a creative action—Capture, Distill, and Disrupt. Collectively, True to Form is a meditation on how art is in a constant state of reaction, revision, and expansion, and how a museum collection is a reflection of this continuous evolution. Capture includes work by artists creating “stilled lives” in photography, painting, and the plastic arts, resulting in surprises that contradict expectations of each medium. For example, Andy Warhol’s Polaroids of posed art world glitterati is contrasted with Duane Hanson’s ...

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 ...