Tunde Olaniran takes the stage at Summer at the MOCAD Homestead Series in collaboration with El Club on Mike Kelley’s lawn for the second killer line-up on Sunday July 22nd. We caught up with him to chat about his music, inspiration and what he’s looking forward to most about performing in Detroit. What have you been listening […]
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PLAYGROUND DETROIT has partnered with Ponyride to facilitate a new artist residency program providing artists with an incubator space to create excellent artwork in a dynamic environment within the Detroit creative community. This residency simultaneously hosts one Detroit-based artist and one visiting artist who are provided with private live/work space and co-working area at Ponyride in […]
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For the past sixteen years Jerry Vile has promised his fellow Detroiters that their Valentine’s Day would most certainly be filled with eroticism. Erotic art and performance, that is. Since its inception in a small office building, Vile’s exhibition entitled, Dirty Show, annually outgrew its venue capacity before it landed in the Russell Industrial’s Exhibition Center […]
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Light is magic: it disperses shadows, and it can transfix people. It is a proper symbol for hope and new beginnings. The evening of October 5th (from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.) and the evening of October 6 (from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.) Detroit hosts a new contemporary light art festival, DLECTRICITY. There are […]
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A couple of years ago, artists Ian Swanson and Cedric Tai seemed to be everywhere in Detroit. Everywhere you turned, they were involved with a great local art project. They had their own gigs, teamed up on joint projects, and both were heavily involved with thedetroiter.com, which is an art-focused Detroit-centric website ‘serving a creative community.’ Their collective energy was great […]
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This past weekend the Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival 2012 took place in over 200 locations around Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. According to the program guide, “Bushwick Open Studios is a self-organized, collaborative festival produced by Arts in Bushwick, an all-volunteer community organization. Now in its sixth year, BOS is an exciting oppurtunity for artists to experiment outside […]
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According to this New York Times article it seems so. Of course the NY Times doesn’t have to tell PLAYGROUND DETROIT. The majority of the NYC-based team resides in the industrial ‘up and coming’ neighborhood, Bushwick. We can testify to the multiplying galleries in the surrounding nearby area, in addition to new bars and restaurants popping […]
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