by Sarah Margolis-Pineo | Nov 3, 2011 | Blog
A fortuitous schedule change gave me the opportunity to interview Liz Cohen, a photographer, performer, and pinup, who happens to be my neighbor on the Cranbrook campus. Simply put, Cohen is fearless. Her projects are fully immersive, intertwining ethnography and...
by Sarah Margolis-Pineo | Oct 13, 2011 | Blog
I feel like I’m on a bit of a mission to prove to Bad at Sports readers that not all Detroit artists trespass into abandoned buildings, cultivate urban prairie, or become beekeepers to create work in this city. Admittedly, tactics of urban intervention are a...
by Sarah Margolis-Pineo | Sep 8, 2011 | Blog
Leon Johnson is an artist and educator whose practice traverses poetry and performance, film and food. He is an avid researcher into the multifaceted nature of social relations, and seeks to engage with the world at large by cultivating situations that emerge out of...
by Sarah Margolis-Pineo | Aug 4, 2011 | Blog
Human infrastructure can only withstand so much benign neglect before returning to nature. Much like the children of bohemian parents or the subjects of laissez-faire governments, the physical structures of built space will eventually succumb to wildness if left too...
by Sarah Margolis-Pineo | Jun 28, 2011 | Blog
When considering architecture, I find it difficult not to revert back to that well-worn Le Corbusier trope of a “machine for living.†The Modernists gave us a legacy of sleekness and functionality in the field of design, taking inspiration from a systematic...