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Shakespeare in Detroit returns with new home at Marygrove Conservancy

After a four-year hiatus, the Bard is back — but if people think SiD’s performances are just about ‘the dead dude who wrote them,’ they’re missing the point, says director Sam White

By Darlene A. White

May 16, 2022

A Shakespeare performance is coming to Detroit, but this time it’s not all about the Bard — it’s about the audience. “Shakespeare in Detroit is about breaking down barriers that exist for people in our beloved Detroit,” says Sam White, the founding artistic and executive director of the nonprofit theater organization...

Shakespeare in Detroit returns with new home at Marygrove Conservancy

Scott Hocking sculpture headed for Detroit’s Huntington Place

‘The Citadel’ will be unveiled in the convention center's public art collection by late summer

By Randiah Camille Green
May 18, 2022
New app identifies and tracks murals around Detroit

CANVS Street Art will tell users location of public art in Detroit and artist behind it

By Randiah Camille Green
May 12, 2022
Detroit-area musician Dan Miller opens up about late brother’s mental health struggles with ‘Looking for the Light’ series

His former Goober & the Peas bandmate Michael Miller’s emotive paintings are on display at Galerie Camille as part of Mental Health Awareness Month

By Lee DeVito
May 11, 2022
Library Street Collective announces plans for new community space in Detroit's East Village

Latest development in the gallery’s ambitious project will house nonprofit for artists with disabilities

By Randiah Camille Green
May 5, 2022
Norwest Gallery of Art gears up for Womxnhouse Detroit 2022 installations with 'Allium'

Meet the gallery's seven BIPOC artists in residence

By Randiah Camille Green
May 3, 2022
Detroit’s MOCAD parts ways with another executive director

Cara Courage is already out after getting the job in February

By Lee DeVito
Apr 27, 2022
Metro Detroit artist Monica Molinaro has died, celebration of life planned at the DIA

‘Art is treated as a precious relic, but it’s really an expression of who we are,’ she said

By Lee DeVito
Apr 27, 2022
Mike Posner gives Big Sean his flowers following Coachella performance

The singer was Big Sean's special guest during his set at the festival

By Alex Washington
Apr 27, 2022
Yemeni artist Alia Ali blasts off with far-out, futuristic installation at the Arab American National Museum

Space invader

By Lee DeVito
Apr 27, 2022
Sterling Toles' new MOCAD exhibit will make you question who you really are

The Detroit native’s first museum solo show ‘s(h)elves’ is on view until June 12

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 26, 2022
Detroit artist Rico Africa gets posthumous retrospective at Cass Cafe

Born Robert Berry, the Cass Corridor artist was known for his colorful, witty paintings

By Lee DeVito
Apr 22, 2022
Oak Park artist recycles trash into cute characters

Dale Teachout is creating whimsical creatures with an Earth Day message for an outdoor installation on Nine Mile Road

By Darlene A. White
Apr 22, 2022
A Highland Park resident is on a mission to rebuild her neighborhood one block at a time

Avalon Village is ‘an eco-village in the making’ with art, educational workshops, entertainment, and more

By Darlene A. White
Apr 21, 2022
Detroit’s jessica Care moore gets shoutout from Oprah for poem about Ketanji Brown Jackson

The Detroit native is overjoyed to be recognized by one of her longtime idols

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 14, 2022
Community rallies in support of Royal Oak’s Main Art Theatre

Fans of the longstanding indie art house braved the cold to protest demolition plans

By Konstantina Buhalis
Apr 11, 2022
Local social worker might be Detroit's next big social media influencer

Jennifer Onwenu turns her unfiltered tweets into YouTube series

By Alex Washington
Apr 7, 2022
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit gears up for spring season with film series on underground party subculture

Work by Charles McGee, Gilda Snowden also planned for exhibits opening in April

By Randiah Camille Green
Apr 1, 2022
Detroit Institute of Arts expands Van Gogh exhibit to include more than 70 works

‘Van Gogh in America’ to run from Oct. to Jan 2023

By Randiah Camille Green
Mar 30, 2022
Detroit’s ‘d.Tree Studio’ exhibit transforms dying trees into intricate works of art

The CCS and Charles H. Wright collab takes a stand on climate change and sustainability

By Randiah Camille Green
Mar 30, 2022
Jenenne Whitfield of Detroit’s Heidelberg Project stepping down

After 28 years, she's now heading to the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore — but will still work with Tyree Guyton

By Lee DeVito
Mar 23, 2022