by Alison Cuddy | August 14, 2026Kalamazoo: Great Name, Terrific Art Scene About a two-and-a-half hour drive from downtown Chicago and an almost straight shot west of the Lake Michigan community of South Haven, a legacy of cultural renown remains a part of Kalamazoo’s identity.
by Steve Panton | August 13, 2026From Heidelberg to the Good Shepherd: Art, Space and the Right to the City in Detroit Artists need space to create and display their work. As regimes of capital accumulation emerge, they transform the economies of this space and, in turn, transform how artists create.
by K.A. Letts | February 10, 2026Robert Schefman’s Paintings Turn Realism Toward Existential Unease In the exhibition at David Klein Gallery in Ferndale, Michigan, the artist maintains his willed belief in the power of the illusionistic painted image.
by Elly Fishman | November 10, 2025Nick Cave’s “Amalgam (Origin)” Looms Over the Frederik Meijer Gardens Slate gray and twenty-six-feet tall, it rises against the western Michigan treetops like something otherworldly.
by K.A. Letts | October 10, 2025Ryan Standfest Paints a Post-Industrial Parable in Detroit The artist's solo exhibition at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center shows paintings and prints depicting derelict architecture within enigmatic landscapes.
by K.A. Letts | July 31, 2025Dotting Sensation: A Review of Carlo Vitale at NCRC Rotunda Gallery at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
by K.A. Letts | June 6, 2025Everywhere All at Once: A Review of “David Hockney—Perspective Should Be Reversed” at Grand Rapids Art Museum
by K.A. Letts | January 21, 2025Herstories of Clay: A Review of “Making Her Mark” at Flint Institute of Arts
by K.A. Letts | November 25, 2024Detroit Art History: A Review of “How We Make the Planet Move” at Cranbrook Art Museum