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Mobility, Art & Design | CCS
Now that the Detroit Auto Show occupies a September date from 2022 onward, it coincides with the annual Detroit Month of Design celebration. The festival features exhibitions, studio tours, talks and workshops that highlights Detroit’s UNESCO City of Design status. The College for Creative Studies (CCS) staged Mobility, Art & Design at the Valade Family…
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2022 Detroit Auto Show
Attending media day at the 2022 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) spanned a range of emotions. I’ve been making the typically mid-winter trek to Detroit for the better part of 25 years. Sometimes through blizzards, frigid temperatures and pre-sunrise darkness. Walking to Huntington Place (formerly Cobo Hall) on an 75-degree and sunny morning felt…
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CarPark | Industry City
CarPark made a late August return to the cobbled canyons of Industry City in Brooklyn for a cars and coffee meetup. The event spanned two blocks with Porsche occupying 35th St. and all others lining up on 34th. As is typical with CarPark events, there’s a few unexpected standouts that usually appear. In this case…
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Jamie Wolfond | Matter
Flash Set is an exhibition by Toronto-based Jamie Wolfond Studio of work created from an experimental process. The resulting series of colorful vessels and wall panels fill the interior gallery space at Matter and number over a hundred individual pieces. This body of work started with an observation. I noticed a boulder which had lichen…
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Brendan Timmins | Cooler Gallery
Brooklyn’s Cooler Gallery wasn’t the frigid interior space I needed for respite from the upper 90s heat on my mid-July visit. Following a brief chat with curator Michael Yarinsky, I got on with exploring the summer exhibition by Brendan Timmins. Titled fissus ornate (translated from latin to split decorated) Timmins presented a series of wood furniture…
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Christian Chironi | Morton St. Partners
The protagonist of Morton St, Partners exhibition, Manhattan Stop by Christian Chironi is a harlequin hued FIAT 127 Special. A seemingly indistinct choice for an art car if you’re going by BMW’s standards. The Italian artist Chironi however isn’t just painting up some body panels and calling it done with this project. The FIAT has…