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I thought I would share this very interesting list of artsy events posted in a newsletter by Michelle Perron of the Center Galleries [College for Creative Studies] -- includes the Saarinen Exhibition that Katherine posted. So much to do; so little time. Opening THIS Friday, November 2, 6 - 8 p.m. Center Galleries presents: "DENNIS SUMMERS: PHASE SHIFT" (NB: One-night-only outdoor projection on the facade of the Manoogian Visual Resource Building) This new work by Michigan multi-media artist Dennis Summers features a series of digitally created abstract videos initially inspired by the music of Steve Reich. These stunningly and optically complex video paintings reveal - within a field of color and light - an experience that is at once mesmerizing and meditative. In 2006, one of these works received the Purchase Prize at La Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo in Almería, Spain. Summers' career as a visual artist has included work in film, performance and installation, with works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pompidou Center (Paris), and the San Francisco Art Institute, among others. With "Phase Shift," Summers has forged new territory for himself, and for the video genre. In his essay for the exhibition, George Tysh writes: "Summers’ new light works make a powerful case for the enduring centrality of minimalism, alongside cubism and surrealism, in the bedrock of contemporary art." Also at Center Galleries: Alumni & Faculty Hall: “Muffinesto: MIROSLAV CUKOVIC FA’05” (this will be Miroslav's last exhibition in Detroit before he moves to Europe!) Permanent Collection Gallery: Recent Acquisitions These exhibitions run through December 15. Center Galleries College for Creative Studies 301 Frederick Douglass (corner of Brush Street) Detroit, MI 48202 T: 313.664.7800 F: 313.664.7880 W: www.collegeforcreativestudies. edu ============================== ============= Tomorrow! Tuesday, October 30 at 7:30 p.m. The Friends of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts presents: Artalk with JULIE MEHRETU In anticipation of her DIA exhibition "City Sightings," JULIE MEHRETU will lecture on her work: paintings that spin epic tales, echoing situations throughout the world and across time. Fascinated by the physical and social spaces of cities, Mehretu consciously chooses urban settings as her sites for investigation. For her "Julie Mehretu: City Sightings," the artist made new works that address issues of mobility, social organization and global competition. Mehretu will speak about her working process with special focus on the five new paintings made for the Detroit exhibition. This lecture is free, open to the public, and co-sponsored by Friends of African and African-American Art and the Founders Junior Council. Detroit Institute of Arts DETROIT FILM THEATRE AUDITORIUM (use John R entrance) 5200 Woodward Avenue Detroit T. 313.833.4020 www.fmca-dia.org ============================== ============= Opening Thursday, November 1, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (Lecture by the artist at 7:30p.m.) Linda Ross Contemporary Art + Projects and GalleryOne in Ann Arbor present: "Echoes from Nature: A 30-Year Retrospective of Jewelry by RICHARD GRINSTEIN" Throughout his 30-year career, Michigan artist RICHARD GRINSTEIN has dedicated himself to making jewelry which represents a union of artistry and craftsmanship. One of his major goals has been to create work that combines utility and beauty. His jewelry is meant to be worn out into the world so that it brings "art into everyday life," a principle goal espoused by William Morris and other leading figures of the 19th Century Arts & Crafts Movement. Collectors of fine jewelry in metropolitan Detroit have collected Grinstein's work for years. Come see why at his first full-scale retrospective including jewelry, drawings and photographs that provide an in-depth look at the artist's sources of inspiration, philosophical and aesthetic concerns, and working process. GalleryOne Student Center Building, Room 108 Washtenaw Community College 4800 East Huron River Drive Ann Arbor T: 734.477.8512 ============================== ============= Please Note: The Thursday, November 1 lecture by TOM OTTERNESS is POSTPONED! Re-scheduled for: Tuesday, November 27 at 7:00 p.m. The Cranbrook Art Academy's Critical Studies/Humanities Lecture Series presents: "TOM OTTERNESS: The Public Artist as New Town Crier" Tom Otterness is one of America's most prominent public artists. His sculptures adorn parks and other public places in New York-most notably Battery Park City and the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station-and other cities around the world. He is also represented in many major public and private collections. He is a graduate of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and was a member of Collaborative Projects, Inc. (Colab). How creative producers can help foster conversation about important issues of common concern is an important element in his work. His style is cartoonish and cheerful on the surface yet marked by complexity and ambivalence upon further contemplation. His exhibition last year of public sculpture in Grand Rapids was his largest to date, with more than 40 works across two miles of the city's downtown area and at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park. His solo exhibition this fall inaugurates Marlborough Gallery's new pace in Manhattan's Chelsea district. Open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis with Museum admission. Cranbrook Art Museum/DeSalle Auditorium 39221 Woodward Avenue Bloomfield Hills For more information, please call 1-877-GO-CRANBrook (1-877-462-7262) or visit the website at www.cranbrookart.edu. ============================== ============= Saturday, November 3 at 1:00 p.m. The Henry Ford presents: "Best of Friends: BUCKMINSTER FULLER and ISAMU NOGUCHI" 1:00 p.m Lecture by exhibition curator Shoji Sadao, Principal of Fuller and Sadao PC, former Executive Director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation. Sadao, who worked with both Noguchi and Fuller, will share insight into the vital friendship and collaboration between Fuller, an icon of modern creative and scientific thought, and Noguchi, one of the 20th Century's most acclaimed sculptors and designers. Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, two of the most highly regarded creative minds of the 20th century, might at first glance seem to have little in common: Fuller the “Spaceship Earth” visionary, known for his geodesic domes and hours-long lectures to enraptured student audiences; and Noguchi the sculptor, whose creative vocabulary found a quiet but forceful voice in the sometimes graceful, sometimes aggressive shaping of stone, metal, water, wood and light into monuments, playgrounds, gardens, fountains, furniture and lamps. There is, however, a congruence, a deeper sense of shared concerns and values, that underlies their lives and their work, and it is this congruence that lies at the heart of "Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi." This highly acclaimed exhibit features Fuller's 1934 three-wheeled Dymaxion Car, sculptures by Noguchi and dozens of rare documents, models and artifacts. The exhibition runs through January 15, 2008. The Henry Ford Museum @ The Henry Ford 20900 Oakwood Blvd. Dearborn T: 313.982.6001 or 800.835.5237 http://www.thehenryford.org/dy maxion/index.html ============================== ============= Opening Saturday, November 3, 5 - 8 p.m. David Klein Gallery presents: "KRISTIN BEAVER: FROM THE TOP" Kristin Beaver’s exuberant paintings are equally informed by the artist’s love of the lush brushstrokes of John Singer Sargeant and the “fashion” photos she takes of her subjects. The relationships with her models are close ones. These are not anonymous studio models but rather the artists’s best friends. The result is compelling, dramatic, sometimes funny and always about the act of painting itself. This is Kristin Beaver’s first solo show with David Klein Gallery. Exhibition runs through December 15. David Klein Gallery 163 Townsend Street Birmingham 248.433.3700 www.dkgallery.com ============================== ============= Tuesdays in November @ The Detroit Public Library: "Word of Mouth Poetry Series" (Beginning Tuesday, November 6) The DPL presents a poetry reading and interview program that will be recorded and podcast via the Detroit Public Library's website. This is your chance to interview the poets and get the artist's view point, while being heard around the world. Schedule of events: * Tuesday, November 6: NAOMI LONG MADGETT, Detroit's Poet Laureate, Lotus Press publisher and author of "Connected Islands." * Tuesday, November 13: MELBA BOYD on DUDLEY RANDALL, Boyd is a scholar, poet and author of the Randall biography "Wrestling with the Muse." * Tuesday, November 20: TERRY BLACKHAWK, founder and Executive Director of the InsideOut Literary Arts Project. * Tuesday, November 27: DENNIS TEICHMAN, Past Tents Press publisher and author of "V8." Tuesday in November all begin at 6:00 p.m. (No one will be admitted after 6:45pm). Free and open to the public. Detroit Public Library Main Branch, Explorers Room 5201 Woodward Avenue Detroit 313.833.4042 www.detroitpubliclibrary.org ============================== ============= Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 p.m. Springfed Arts - Metro Detroit Writers presents: RON PADGETT and CHRIS TYSH: A Reading A rare and remarkable presence in poetry, RON PADGETT "has re-energized modern poetry with exuberant and tender love poems, exceptionally lucid and touching elegies, and imaginative and action-packed homages to American culture and visual art, in poetry with odes to Woody Woodpecker, Dagwood sandwiches, chocolate milk, astronauts, small-time criminals and stupidity." Detroit's own CHRIS TYSH has published six books of poetry with work that explores sex and politics, eroticism, and the slippery world (and words) of the he and the she. She teaches creative writing and women's studies at Wayne State University. She is a recipient of a 2003 NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and her latest collection of poems is "Cleavage" (Roof Books, 2004). She has written a full-length screenplay, based on a novel by George Bataille, and is currently working on a play focused on events of World War II. If you've never seen/heard a live reading by either of these poets - don't miss this opportunity; it is sure to be a night of amazing work by two of the country's major poets. The Scarab Club 217 E. Farnsworth (at John R) Detroit T: 313.831.1250 www.springfed.org ============================== ============= Thursday, November 8 at 12 Noon: The Crafts Department and the Liberal Arts Department of the College for Creative Studies presents: A Lecture by ANDREW WAGNER on "Craft: The Great Connector" In December 2006, Andrew Wagner, a founding editor of the architecture and design magazine Dwell, was charged with revamping the 66 year-old publication American Craft. Taking the helm of a publication with such a storied history presented a vast array of opportunities and challenges. Wagner will describe his discoveries leading up to the re-launch of American Craft this past October. From craft’s early identity as the tie that binds all creative output to its quest to be taken seriously by the "capital A" art world in the 80s and 90s, Wagner will explain how this multi-faceted medium has grappled with its oft-conflicting sense of identity. Wagner’s presentation of the re-launch issue will sum up his views of the craft world now and his search for the beautiful blurring of the superficial boundaries that have been erected across disciplines in the past thirty years. Andrew Wagner is the editor-in-chief of American Craft magazine. Prior to coming to American Craft in late 2006, Wagner was the executive editor and founding managing editor of Dwell magazine, pushing the boundaries of architecture and design journalism and helping the publication win the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) General Excellence Award in 2005. In 1997, Wagner founded LIMN, the unorthodox design and arts magazine published by the equally unorthodox furniture and design company of the same name, and served as its editor-in-chief until 2000. Wagner was also the founding editor of Dodge City Journal, a magazine dedicated to documenting life in America’s under-explored cities. In addition to his work at American Craft, Wagner is a consulting editor at Places magazine and has been a guest lecturer at University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Archeworks, and California College of the Arts. His writing has been published in, amongst others, Azure, Blueprint, Breathe, Loud Paper, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Travel and Leisure. Free and open to the public. Wendell W. Anderson Jr. Auditorium Walter B. Ford II Building College for Creative Studies (corner of John R. and Frederick Douglass Streets) For more information call 313.664.7640 www.collegeforcreativestudies. edu ============================== ============= Thursday, November 8 at 5:00 p.m. The Penny Stamps Lecture Series at the University of Michigan presents: "XU BING: Between Image and Text" Working in a wide range of media, Chinese artist Xu Bing creates installations that question the viability of conveying meaning through language. Many of his works examine the disconnection between official and private uses of language, and the inevitability of mistranslation across cultures. He received a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award in 1999, presented to him for "originality, creativity, self-direction, and capacity to contribute importantly to society." This event is free and open to the public. Michigan Theater 603 East Liberty Street Ann Arbor www.art-design.umich.edu ============================== ============= Saturday, November 17 - Symposium & Exhibition opening Cranbrook Art Museum presents: "EERO SAARINEN: Shaping the Future" From the sweeping concrete vaults of the TWA Terminal at JFK Airport in New York to the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the iconic designs of Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) captured the aspirations and values of mid-20th-century America. Potent expressions of national power, these and other Saarinen-designed structures-including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; Dulles International Airport Terminal outside Washington, D.C.; and the corporate headquarters of John Deere in Illinois and CBS in New York-helped create the international image of the United States in the decades following World War II. Cranbrook Art Museum is proud to present the North American première of the first major retrospective ever mounted on the career of Eero Saarinen. Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, opens November 17, 2007, and runs through March 30, 2008, featuring work that Eero completed at Cranbrook as well as an extensive collection of furniture, photographs, drawings and models representing his entire career. INTERNATIONAL SAARINEN SYMPOSIUM Saturday, November 17, 2007 An international symposium on the life and work of both Eliel and Eero Saarinen will be held at Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. The symposium will examine the pivotal work and career of Eero Saarinen in the United States and abroad, and the design heritage that he received through his father, Eliel Saarinen, at Cranbrook. Full-day tickets only: $55 adults; $45 ArtMembers@Cranbrook; and $25 for full-time students with ID. Lunch is $10 (by advance payment only). Round-trip shuttle transportation between Cranbrook and the General Motors Technical Center is $10 (by advance payment only). For additional information, please call 248-645-3312. Registration forms available on-line at www.cranbrook.edu. Cranbrook Art Museum 39221 Woodward Avenue Bloomfield Hills T: 248.645.3312 www.cranbrook.edu ============================== ============= ENJOY...INDULGE...ENGAGE... This information is brought to you by Michelle Perron at Center Galleries College for Creative Studies 301 Frederick Douglass (Corner of Brush Street) | ||
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Thanks, Lowell. We can't let the Detroit Film Theatre get lost in the shuffle of the DIA renovations. But they have a great season going on. This Thurs-Sat they are showing "Lake of Fire," a documentary by the director of American History X on the history of the abortion debate in America. I'm looking forward to seeing it. |
