Culture Lab Detroit

Congrats to many of our dear friends and former collaborators!

Happy "Techno Christmas" Detroit! Hoping you have a fun, safe, and restorative weekend full of lots of dancing and BBQ's! bit.ly/2wfccDs

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@securethebree It does!

Honored to receive support from @NEAarts! Over the next two years we’ll be working with @CityofDetroit to facilitate collaborations with local neighborhoods and artists to show how investment in arts and culture contributes to sustainable neighborhood development. Thank you!

An artist panel on found material in contemporary African-American art, a special activation of Nari Ward's "Naturalization Drawing Table," and more, this week at the New Museum: bit.ly/2CM8FQO

Can't wait for full release of "Never Silent. Never Still," which showcases the 18 2018 Kresge Artist Fellows? For now you can watch the trailer. Full release goes online later this week. vimeo.com/322849154

Happy Spring! In the spirit of this season of renewal, Culture Lab Detroit has dived into a process of evaluation and we want to hear from you! Share your thoughts about arts in Detroit by completing a 2 minute survey and be entered into a drawing for $50 surveymonkey.com/r/BGVVM7T

Nari Ward's smaller sculptures — not his larger, site-specific works — feel most profound at the New Museum, which is giving him a midcareer retrospective, our critic Martha Schwendener writes in her review nyti.ms/2TQAhxZ

Toni Morrison is 88 today, and we all should explore and revisit her work today to honor her. Her birthday feels like a holiday of sorts for black writers, in particular, and this 2003 Hilton Als profile illustrates why. nyer.cm/3dmHaDR

“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from. It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it,” Toni Morrison, who turns eighty-eight today, said. nyer.cm/3dmHaDR

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You have no idea how many Wednesday nights we spend blissing out to Ian Finkelstein’s music at Motor City Wine ✨

Culture Lab Detroit 2018 participant, @dreamhampton writes about Detroit Activist Siwatu-Salama Ra for @Essence - important read. essence.com/news/detroit-a…

Detroit visit reviewed in @art_agenda: "'Those who see Detroit as a no-man’s land just waiting to be developed, should take heed of @dreamhampton's words: This city is a place 'with a black history, a black present, and a black future.'” art-agenda.com/reviews/detroi…

"... we have to ask: how is #technology shaping the #future and what is the role of #beauty in those processes?" @CultureLabDET vimeo.com/296477086

@RickySpurs101 @TheCinegogue @cinemaofdreams @goldblumstuff @lloyd_news @JohnLithgow @MikeOkuda @EllenBarkin @RealClancyBrown @jeffreygoldbIum @CC_the_martian @gollogbluulb @petersob13 @ebertvoices @ebertchicago @ChazEbert @ebertfest Via #Artnet: Peter Weller, The Actor Who Played #Robocop, Is Now an Art Historian, and He Returned to Detroit to Face a New Threat: ‘The Crisis of Beauty’ #DFNYArt #CrisisOfBeauty news.artnet.com/art-world/robo…

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