So swank: Detroiters do Miami's Art Basel

Miami's annual Art Basel exhibition brings many of the nation's artists and DJs on the cutting culture edge together for a mind-blowing installation of forward-thinking talent. Our own radar zeitgeist Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit took part in this year's Oceanfront Program, and MOCAD Director and Chief Curator Luis Croquer sat down with MutualArt magazine for a revealing interview on the D's growing influence in the progressive art scene.

Excerpt:

Detroit has a long history of invention, innovation and creativity that has never changed, the fact that the rest of the world was not looking does not mean that the exploration stopped. On the contrary, the hard conditions on the ground have also become tremendous opportunities to think out of the box. It's the hybridity, or "in-betweenness" as I called it before that interests me. Things that are not easily classifiable and that collapse boundaries between disciplines, that is what the Oceanfront program is all about and the artists featured in it are actively asking those questions. Sometimes when you have very tough circumstances, people get so creative that they are almost making art and life into one thing.

Find out what else Croquer has to say here.