February 6, 2014
Early photography in early Detroit: J. Jex Bardwell
Celebrating the life and work of Detroit’s oldest photographer.
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July 14, 2010
Ghost hunters
Before Sunday, I’m pretty sure I’d never taken a picture of Michigan Central Station.
But let’s backtrack.
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January 6, 2010
Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company
Have you ever seen those old postcards — I tend to find them crammed in shoeboxes at antique stores — with luridly hued landscapes or blush-tinted street scenes and historical landmarks — photographs that almost look like rigid little paintings?
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October 6, 2009
Richard Barnes: Museums, mortality and eternal return
On Sunday we went to Richard Barnes’s lecture on Animal Logic, his installation at the Cranbrook Institute of Science (part of the Artology series, a collaboration presenting “visual and experiential examples of the ways in which art and science frequently parallel or complement each other,” which will hold over creative-types while the Cranbrook Art Museum is closed for renovations).
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