Model D-troiter: Carl Oxley III
Artist Carl Oxley III's business, Popartmonkey, is "the happiness company" in Hamtramck. Oxley's home studio is filled with nuclear colors, aliens, robots and animals in love.
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Big Ideas for Shrinking Cities
Live from Berlin, an international exhibit called Shrinking Cities comes to Detroit's new MOCAD museum this week with a mission to offer 'imaginative remedies for regions that have undergone decline.'
Taking Techno to the Max
Straight from the underground and into some of the most posh digs in the Motor City — the original kings of Detroit techno take over the DSO's Max M. Fisher Music Center this New Year's Eve.
Enter MOCAD
Detroit will have a new space to get edgy, gritty, messy and controversial — and attract an multinational cadre of artists — when the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit opens to the public this week.
Global Vibe: W
An international fashion photographer comes to Detroit not knowing what to expect. He feels the vibe. He gets it, and leaves inspired enough to devote 100 magazine pages over two issues to our fair city.
Unofficial Art
A field of orange houses. Painted whirligigs and Elvises. Thousands of Polariods. Call it what you want, but it's all art — classic folk art from contemporary Detroiters who need no gallery.
Detroit Shows Its Best Moves
Each Memorial Day weekend, Detroit turns into a massive dance party — and the entire world is invited. Fans and musicians come from around the world and descend upon the Motor City for a weeklong string of parties, after-parties, and mornings after. Here's a look in pictures at this year's Movement fest.
Highland Park Guide
Pride. Strength. Refusal to give up. Highland Park residents say those are qualities that have never dwindled in the neighborhood. One of the nation's first great suburban communities, Highland Park is a neighborhood that is working hard to re-emerge, to realize its ambition to be a city of opportunity again.
