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    How to go to a gallery opening: BTYB Real Detroit

    by  • September 21, 2009 • Art, Culture, Detroit media • 0 Comments

    On the cover of this week’s Real Detroit: a five-point beginner’s guide for attending gallery openings entitled “Free Booze, Expensive Art.” There was a folk saying, back in Milwaukee, during the brief and wondrous life of the Armoury Gallery, about attending art openings. It went something like, “it’s not an opening until Amy Elliott...

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    The abandoned future at MOCAD

    by  • September 15, 2009 • Art, Culture • 0 Comments

    MOCAD opened a new show on Friday — two solo exhibitions by two Scandinavians that occupy the raw concrete gallery space (yes, we know it used to be an auto dealership) with an outstretching emptiness, blanched of color,  goverened by shape and movement, flickers of shadow and whiteness, mechanical noises and unpeopled silences. Except,...

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