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A Place to Resist Apathy: “Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City 1980-2000” at Lane Hall Gallery
Tue, 10/15/2019 - 2:30pm by christopherporter
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Big town civil disobedience meets big-time photojournalism in Whose Streets? Our Streets! New York City 1980-2000 at the University of Michigan Women’s Studies Lane Hall Gallery.
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The Vietnam War and Modern Memory: Matthew Provoast’s “Dear Grandpaw” at the Argus Museum
Mon, 07/22/2019 - 10:30am by christopherporter
Matthew Provoast’s Dear Grandpaw at the Argus Museum is part family history, part archival photojournalism -- and all viscerally imaginative ground-level art about of one of the most traumatic events in America’s 20th century.
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The Music of Life: “Fractured History: A Solo Exhibit by Aaron Dworkin” at Ann Arbor Art Center
Wed, 05/29/2019 - 7:15am by christopherporter
Aaron Dworkin's Fractured History exhibition is art in the key of life. His 11 artworks in the Ann Arbor Art Center’s entry-level gallery gives us a revealing glimpse of this authentic Michigan institution as well as his view of the world around us.
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Arrested Motion: “Helen Gotlib: Secret Beaches” at WSG Gallery
Mon, 05/20/2019 - 12:30pm by christopherporter
Ann Arbor printmaker Helen Gotlib is a master of the art of slow motion. It’s there in plain sight in her Secret Beaches exhibit at the WSG Gallery.
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Everything flows at Argus Museum's photography exhibit “Water Is Life”
Mon, 04/01/2019 - 12:00pm by christopherporter
Leave it to a museum in a city nestled in a state surrounded in three directions by water to appreciate that Water Is Life. For water is most definitely the topic in display in this expansive photographic exhibit winding its way through the Washtenaw County Historical Society's Argus Museum gallery space.
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Representation, Now: “Art Now 2019: Painting” at Ann Arbor Art Center
Wed, 03/06/2019 - 12:30pm by christopherporter
Continuing with the fifth installation of its semi-annual exhibition themes, the Ann Arbor Art Center’s Art Now 2019: Painting illustrates the vitality of this perennial art form in our contemporary arts.
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Recombinant Tales: Ruth Crowe’s “Storytelling with Photo Infusion and Encaustic” at Gifts of Art
Mon, 02/18/2019 - 11:45am by christopherporter
Taken separately, photo fusion and encaustic are interestingly differing forms of art. Taken together, they reflect local artist Ruth Crowe’s wry multimedia Storytelling with Photo Fusion and Encaustic exhibit at the Gifts of Art Gallery in the University of Michigan Hospital main corridor.
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Kerrytown Concert House’s “Winter Meditation” offers austere ambiance from Kirsten Lund, Ann and Fred Ringia
Wed, 01/30/2019 - 9:00am by christopherporter
It may initially seem surprising that winter can inspire artists. One would think the nippy climate would discourage creativity.
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Dennis Jones’ “Candyland” is a graffiti-inspired exploration of post-painterly art
Tue, 11/06/2018 - 10:30am by christopherporter
Dennis Jones’ Candyland at the University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex Rotunda is for those who like to have a little contact high to go along with their art.
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Local Legends: "One-Shot Stanger: The Photos of Eck Stanger" at AADL
Thu, 07/26/2018 - 11:15am by christopherporter
Local legend says Egbert ("Eck") Stanger, a 1930s copy editor for The Ann Arbor News, was hired as the paper's first staff photographer because he was the only staffer who knew how to read the German instruction manual for the newspaper's only camera.