On the third Thursday of every month more than 40 galleries and businesses stay open until 9pm with special programming, events + offerings. The next 3rd Thursday is May 16.

Phases of an Image:  Rachel Reynolds, Robert Zahorsky, Corrie Baldauf through April 27 An installation of sculptures, drawings, and site-specific paintings by CCS alumni Rachel Reymolds FA’00 and Robert Zahorsky FA’00, and 2011 Kresge Artist Fellow Corrie Baldauf.  Gallery visitors are invited to step inside the frame, push the key, ride the swing, find the…

George Nelson: Architect / Writer / Designer / Teacher through October 14.

DAM Design Show – “Design Aria” through February 16. 2013’s design show, the DAM Design Aria, turns the spotlight on what is new from Detroit’s top designers. The ensemble has been carefully orchestrated to include multiple design elements; lighting, chairs, tables, jewelry and graphic design, creating a display in harmony. DAM will once again host a…

Hidden Treasures: An Experiment through March 3. Motor City Muse:  Detroit Photographs, Then and Now through June 16. Shirin Neshat April 7 through July 7. Ellsworth Kelly: Prints May 31 through September 8.

When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes February 1 through March 31. When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes is a sequel to, and a reevaluation of, the legendary 1969 exhibition Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (Works – Concepts – Processes – Situations – Information), which was curated by Harald Szeemann at Kunsthalle Bern…

The Roving Eye: Aura & the Contemporary Portrait through March 31. This exhibition explores the work of international contemporary artists fixated with portraiture.  It considers: the sitter, the artist and, you, the viewer.  It proposes to facilitate a fresh look at portraiture, to re-evaluate and reclaim it as a practice central to the artist rather than…

New Work and Together Again through March 17. New Work, Craig Clifford: Clifford’s work is an exercise in the transformation of the mundane as well as an investigation into how context and expectation affect our experience and interpretation of the objects he incorporates into his finished works. Together Again, Sally Brogden & Frank Martin: Brogden…

Graduating Seniors Exhibition through February 15. Tri-County High School Exhibition March 8 through March 29. Undergraduate Exhibition April 12 through May 10. Art Education Exhibition May 24 through June 21. Marilyn: Artist as Icon July 5 through August 9.    

When Art Works: African Utilitarian Objects from the Faxon Collection through February 8. Most Africans view art primarily as a tool of daily life that fulfills either a practical or symbolic purpose. When Art Works explores Africa’s utilitarian objects, a largely uncelebrated aspect of the continent’s rich artistic heritage. Whether intended as containers, implements, covers,…

African Art and the Shape of Time. Jesper Just: This Nameless Spectacle. YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.