Video: Nick Cave: Here Hear at Cranbrook Art Museum | Creative Voice / Artrain

Here is your preview for Nick Cave's exhibition Here Hear at Cranbrook Art Museum! Lots of great events coming up this weekend to celebrate the opening of this exhibition and the kick off of several upcoming performance events. Take a look to learn more! ‪#‎HEREHEAR‬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kiriz-F8Cqc

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 new soundsuits that are on display for the first time. His soundsuits are life-sized, and made of metal, plastic, fabric, hair, and objects. Another gallery will house his artwork and sculptures, including a new work inspired by Trayvon Martin. Missouri-native Cave, best-known for his Soundsuits, is also a dancer and performance artist. His creations have been called "part Alexander McQueen, part Andy Warhol, and wholly bizarre, brash, and beautiful," by Artspace. He's also the director of the fashion graduate program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Cave has spent the last few months in Detroit setting up photo shoots in locations ...

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 school and city. “Detroit played a critical role in my education,” he says. “It provided me a very radical mind-set, the city provided the soul.” But when Laura Mott, curator of contemporary art and design for the museum, invited Cave to return to his alma mater for a solo exhibition, he agreed with one condition. “I’ll only do it if I can do some outreach work.” The result is “Nick Cave: Here Hear,” the artist’s most wide-ranging project to date, which will include 40 soundsuits (elaborate wearable sculptures that have become his signature), a new tapestry inspired by Cave’s childhood fascination with ...

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 master's program) to bring performances around the metro Detroit area. We caught up by phone with Cave from his Chicago studio to learn more. Metro Times: Tell us more about your Soundsuits — when did you first arrive at that artistic revelation? Nick Cave: After graduating in '89, I was offered at position at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. It was '92 — when the Rodney King incident happened, and the L.A. riots. It just literally flipped me upside down. So I just started thinking about it, and the fact that as soon as I stepped out of the ...

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, where he was able to reaffirm his cultural identity within the rich texture of black life in the city, especially the dance and music scenes. "That was the first time I had to look at myself as a black male, and it was a struggle to find my place," said the 56-year-old Chicago-based artist. "Detroit allowed Cranbrook to work for me, to find a balance." Nearly 30 years later, Cave returns to Cranbrook as an art-world star, best known for his innovative, wearable Soundsuits that connect the dots between sculpture, fashion design, performance art and the politics of race. About 40 of them ...

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 institution has organized the first museum exhibition devoted exclusively to his jewelry. A founder of the American studio jewelry move­ment, Bertoia’s concepts, materials, and methods of construction laid the groundwork for a style that flourished in the postwar years. While he is better known for his large-­scale sculpture and the chairs he designed for Knoll, Bertoia’s jewelry designs from the early 1940s were vital to the develop­ment of his versatile career. Arri (Harry) Bertoia was born on March 10, 1915, in the village of San Lorenzo in northeast Italy. At fifteen, he and his father immigrated to Detroit, a growing city with ...

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Nick Cave and the Good Seeds | W Magazine

The artist brings his largest show to date to his alma mater. “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 an exhibition there, he told them, “I would only do the show if I could do some work in Detroit. They were really on board.” The show is a monumental homecoming for the sculptor who now lives in Chicago. Partnering with a local high school, dance academies and grass roots non-profits, Cave dreamt up an entire summer of programming, which will activate seemingly every corner of the city with vibrant performances. “We’re bringing the work to Detroit, but hiring the city to build the project,” explains Cave. “Detroit is re-identifying itself. It’s a new beginning. These supporters are imagining the future of their city. They have the power. ...

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 school’s campus sits about 20 miles away from the downtown area, Cave’s first lesson upon his arrival in the late ’80s. “Girl, thank God for the city,” he says. “I got here and I was the sole black person, so Detroit saved my life. I became connected to this circle of creative people.” He recalls a fearlessness to the way they came together and fed off of one another. “I don’t know if I could have done Cranbrook without Detroit,” he avers. “That’s why this is so important; I’m reconnecting with the city that really allowed me to create a ...

The Visual and the Musical: Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Invade Metro Detroit | IXITI.com

“Thank God for Detroit,” exclaims Nick Cave as he lays out the plans and inspiration for his takeover of the City. His trademark Soundsuits have already invaded Eastern Market, the Michigan Assembly Plant and the Fisher Building for photo shoots and promotional activities, with the main event, Nick Cave: Here Hear, opening to the public this weekend at Cranbrook Art Museum. But Cave’s art and community events transcend far beyond Cranbrook’s Bloomfield Hills environs, into Detroit’s Riverfront and Brightmoor neighborhood, for an interactive, participatory exhibition unlike any the museum has produced. Cave, an African-American, was a master’s student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art’s lauded fine arts program in 1988 and 1989, where he recalls being the only minority at the time. As a result, he says he spent about half of his time in Detroit. “Detroit was so pivotal in my time at Cranbrook because it really allowed and created ...

Nick Cave’s anticipated exhibit is finally ‘here, hear’ | C & G News

BLOOMFIELD HILLS — A few months ago, artist Nick Cave caused a stir of excitement when he returned to his native Detroit to photograph a series of dramatic art installations. Now, his fans will finally be able to see the results of that effort when his exhibition “Nick Cave: Here Hear” opens at Cranbrook Art Museum this weekend. Cave, a noted sculptor and performance artist, graduated from Cranbrook Art Academy in 1989. In March, he returned to his alma mater to start his photo tour of metro Detroit, which included stops in the Brightmoor neighborhood, Mexicantown and Eastern Market, along with nine other places. Beginning June 20, visitors can see the installations at the museum through the fall. The exhibit will include images from the pop-up photo shoots, about 30 sculptural Soundsuits used during the shoots, tapestries and other pieces. “My goal is to work with those who live in and love the city, ...