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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

The new art installation at Dearborn's Arab American National Museum, "al-Falaq," defies any easy explanation. Looking like a cross between a spaceship and an octopus, the sculpture's 35-foot tentacles twist across multiple floors of the museum, with computer screens in the place of suction cups...

Yemeni artist Alia Ali blasts off with far-out, futuristic installation at the Arab American National Museum

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
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
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
Bakpak Durden, BLKOUT Walls, and Black figurative art in Detroit

By Steven Panton
Nov 17, 2021
Return of Dlectricity shines a light on new plans for Detroit’s Cultural Center district

By Lee DeVito
Sep 22, 2021
Detroit artist Kayla Powers captures local colors in textiles in a mobile studio

By Sarah Vitak
Sep 1, 2021
Detroit police once considered artist Sheefy McFly a criminal. Now he’s making his mark on the city in a big way.

By Lee DeVito
Jun 2, 2021
She found that libraries were missing Black books, so she made her own

By Lee DeVito
Jan 20, 2021
What's the best way to acknowledge that you occupy stolen land?

By Lee DeVito
Nov 25, 2020
As the DIA addresses issues of inclusivity, Black docents help connect the museum to Detroit

By Erica Monèt
Sep 16, 2020
In search of Detroit’s lost walls of dignity, freedom, and pride

By Jeff Huebner
Feb 26, 2020
How the world finally caught up with mid-century modern design pioneer Ruth Adler Schnee

By Ana Gavrilovska
Feb 26, 2020
Detroit artist Sydney James is set to debut her first solo show

By Lee DeVito
Oct 9, 2019
Annual Artworks Detroit fundraiser returns to Wasserman Projects for a good cause

By Lee DeVito
Sep 11, 2019
Faded Detroit mural by Charles McGee gets a long-awaited touch up

By Lee DeVito
Aug 14, 2019
Shoot Dope Spot creates edgy pop art in the Motor City

By Christopher Emrich
Jul 24, 2019
Detroit Art Week is back, bigger than before

By Lee DeVito
Jul 17, 2019
Ingrid LaFleur’s Afrofuturist ‘Manifest Destiny’ makes it clear the future is Black

By Jasmine Espy
Jul 17, 2019
Artist Ellen Rutt takes on climate change and interconnectivity in new exhibition

By Jerilyn Jordan
Jul 17, 2019
While serving as a caregiver for his family, Jeremy Ian Harvey had an artistic breakthrough

By Lee DeVito
Jun 5, 2019

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