by Thomas Friel | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog
In the wake of the recently announced Detroit bankruptcy, and amid the uncertain fate of the Detroit Institute of the Arts’ collection, the Knight Foundation revealed the winners of Knight Arts Challenge: Detroit last week. 56 winners — from...
by Thomas Friel | Aug 22, 2013 | Blog
“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long… No one is dissatisfied, no one is demented with the mania of owning things…” – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass...
by Thomas Friel | Jul 17, 2013 | Blog
I want to use the example of Jay-Z’s performance at Pace Chelsea last week as a case study for something more encompassing, without getting into all the details since it was meant as a location for a music video shoot and not as an art work. (At least, I’m hoping)...
by Thomas Friel | Jun 19, 2013 | Blog
You’re not likely to see a better display of the most important architecture and design of the 20th century anywhere else this summer, so the fact that Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America only focuses on what came out of post war MI is even more remarkable....
by Thomas Friel | May 15, 2013 | Blog
Walking up to the clapboard rancher surrounded by a sod lawn in front of a brick building whose facing side was painted a sky blue, an uneasy feeling of displacement crept up my spine. On one side was downtown Detroit, the other was suburbia. Except it was some sort...
