Carole Harris comes back to where She started
The first solo show Carole Harris ever had was at Gallery 7, the Detroit space Charles McGee ran from 1969 to 1979 to give Black Detroit artists somewhere to exhibit.
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MOCAD reopens, renamed, rewindowed
MOCAD reopens Saturday after eight months of renovation. The 4454 Woodward building, a former auto dealership designed by Albert Kahn, has been the museum's home for the entirety of its 20 years.
Mary-Ann Monforton's Heart Land plays house at the Mobile Homestead
The MOCAD main building closed in August for HVAC and infrastructure renovations through early 2026.
The DIA's first major Native American show in 30 years
Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation opened at the DIA on Sunday and runs through April 5, 2026.
Detroit's first contemporary Art fair lands at Michigan central
Detroit got its first contemporary art fair this weekend.
Murals in the Market comes home for year 10
Murals in the Market spent two years in Islandview after 1XRUN moved its headquarters there. For the 10th anniversary edition, the festival came back to Eastern Market.
BLKOUT Walls spreads out for its third edition
BLKOUT Walls came back this month. Ten days, September 4 through 13, the festival's third edition. The festival was founded in 2021 by Detroit muralist Sydney G.
Detroit month of Design at 15, UNESCO at 10
Detroit Month of Design ran the entire month of September. The 15th edition of the festival lined up about 95 events featuring more than 1,000 designers and creatives across the city.
Richie Hawtin made a short film about Detroit in 1995
NOWNESS released Kids Like Us on July 5, 2025. The 35mm short runs nine minutes and was executive produced by Richie Hawtin.
The Carl Craig documentary finally played in Detroit
Desire: The Carl Craig Story had its Detroit premiere at Newlab at Michigan Central Station on May 22, 2025. The room was full.
JJ and Anthony Curis, in TIME
TIME named Little Village one of the World's Greatest Places of 2025.
The Belt turns 10
The Belt opened ten years ago this month. Library Street Collective and Bedrock unveiled the alley on November 13, 2014, with food trucks and live music and a mural in progress.
Five alebrijes now live on Bagley
Five life-size animal sculptures went up along Bagley Street on Friday.
Michigan Central's New residency pays Detroit artists $30,000 to make things
The Michigan Central x Newlab Creative Residency launches its inaugural cohort this fall. Six artists. $30,000 each.
Mighty real/queer Detroit's second biennial hits 11 galleries
The second Mighty Real/Queer Detroit biennial opened tonight and runs through June 30.
Hatch Art keeps working on Hamtramck Disneyland
Michigan Public's Stateside podcast spent its May 29 episode at Hamtramck Disneyland, a backyard sculpture installation atop two side-by-side garages at 12087 Klinger Street.
The Shepherd opens, and the East side has a New Center of gravity
On Saturday, the former Good Shepherd Catholic Church reopened as a 16,000-square-foot arts campus run by Library Street Collective. The building has not held mass since 2016.
Charles McGee opens the shepherd
The Shepherd's first show is a Charles McGee retrospective. It is appropriate.
OMA drilled 1,353 holes in a bakery to build LANTERN
The first thing you notice on the south facade of LANTERN is the holes. There are 1,353 of them, drilled through the concrete masonry of the south wall and filled with cylindrical glass blocks.
Tiff Massey takes four galleries at the DIA
Tiff Massey opened her solo show at the DIA tonight. Four galleries in the contemporary wing. The most ambitious installation by a Detroit artist the museum has ever staged.
Black opens at the Carr Center
The Carr Center's BLACK group exhibition opened Friday and runs through February 29. The full title is BLACK: A Built Language Across Culture and Knowledge.