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Thursday, May 16

3rd Thursday
Over 40 galleries and businesses stay open until 9pm with special programming, events + offerings
5-9pm

 

Friday, May 17

College for Creative Studies
88th Annual Student Exhibition
Opening 7-10pm for general admission ticket holders
Show runs through May 31

Inner State Gallery
Glen Barr, “Rooms”
Opening 6-9pm
Show runs through June 29

Scarab Club
Blooms, Bugs, Beasts Exhibition
6pm-12am
Festival runs through Sunday

Whitdel Arts
Michelle Matson, solo exhibition
Opening 7-10pm
Show runs through June 15

UMMA
Isamu Noguchi / Qu Baishi / Beijing 1930
Opening 6:30-9:30pm
Show runs through September 1



 

Saturday, May 18

College for Creative Studies
88th Annual Student Exhibtion
Free and open to the public
Show runs through May 31

Hatch:  Hamtramck Art Collective
Hatchback 7 Artist Talk
6-7pm
Performance at 7pm

Glass Academy
Glass Gardens
10am-4pm

Museum of New Art
“Detroit:  The Geometry of Time” Work by: Bruce Giffin, Bryant Tillman and Jef Bourgeau
Opening 6-10pm

North End Studios
Bring Your Own Beamer
One night only, 7pm

Re:View Contemporary Gallery
Simone DeSousa, “A Myriad of One”
Opening 7-10pm
Show runs through June 29

Wasserman Projects
Ken Aptekar, “In the Presence of the Artist”
Opening 5-8pm
Show runs through June 21



 

Wednesday, May 22

Ferndale Public Library and Detroit Institute of Art
Shirin Neshat Lecture, Presenter Ken Szmigel
7pm

 

 

Featured Galleries
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3rd Thursday

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.

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CCS Center Galleries

201 East Kirby, Detroit

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…

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Cranbrook Art Museum

39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills

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

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Detroit Artists Market

4719 Woodward Avenue, Detroit

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…

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Detroit Institute of Arts

5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit

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.

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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

4454 Woodward Avenue, Detroit

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…

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Oakland University Art Gallery

208 Wilson Hall, Rochester, MI.

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…

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Pewabic Pottery

10125 E Jefferson Avenue, Detroit

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…

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Wayne State: Art Department Gallery

150 Art Building, Detroit

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.    

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Wayne State: Elaine L. Jacob Gallery

480 W. Hancock Street, Detroit

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,…

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UMMA

525 South State Street, Ann Arbor

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

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