A driveable tour of 15 works of outdoor art in Detroit

Why waste one of Detroit's rare sunny days inside a stuffy art gallery? The city boasts an increasingly incredible outdoor art supply,…

By Metro Times editorial staff

"Unity”
    (28 W. Grand River Ave., Detroit)
    A towering 118-foot-by-50-foot mural by Charles McGee, "Unity" is a vibrant work of abstract black and white geometric shapes. While the drawings are figurative, McGee has reduced the figures into their most simplistic — fields of black and white. “I felt if I could use black and white, which is the greatest combination of opposites, it would speak the strongest language and I could speak it,” McGee says of the mural. “I feel if I'm going to put it out there, I want it to be strong.” (Photo by Sal Rodriguez)
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