Podcasts about contemporary art detroit

May 15, 2025 ~ Jova Lynne, Co-director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, joins Kevin to discuss The Gun Violence Memorial which pays tribute to victims of gun violence and is in Detroit right now.

Episode No. 619 features artists Edra Soto and José Lerma. Soto and Lerma are among the 18 artists featured in "entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The exhibition examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago, which is home to third-largest mainland population of Puerto Ricans. "entre horizontes" was curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates with Iris Colburn. It is on view through May 5, 2024.  Edra Soto's sculpture and installations prompt viewers to reconsider cross-cultural dynamics, the legacy of colonialism, and personal responsibility. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in the 2020-21 El Museo del Barrio, New York, triennial, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and more. In 2023 Soto was awarded a US LatinX Art Forum fellowship. Soto also is the co-director of the outdoor project space The Franklin.  Lerma is a painter whose work blends the historical, autobiographical, art historical and mythological, often through portraits that suggest (or name) specific individuals while pointing to how much of their public personae are manufactured. Simultaneously riffing on European portraiture traditions and popular representation, his work is smart, funny, and always painterly. The Kemper Museum of Art in Kansas City, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and the MCA Chicago have all presented solo exhibitions of his work. 

Zack Khalil (Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians) is a filmmaker and artist from Bahweting (so called Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His work centers Indigenous narratives in the present—and looks toward the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Zack is a core contributor to New Red Order, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward Indigeneity into question, yet promotes this desire, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency. His work has been exhibited at Artists Space, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lincoln Center, Walker Arts Center, and the Sundance Film Festival among other institutions. Zack is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Grant, and Gates Millennium Scholarship. Contact Zack at 1-888-newred1 and newredorder.org Production Credits: Tiokasin Ghosthorse (Lakota), Host and Executive Producer Liz Hill (Red Lake Ojibwe), Producer Malcolm Burn, Studio Engineer, Radio Kingston, WKNY 1490 AM and 107.9 FM, Kingston, NY Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Audio Editor Kevin Richardson, Podcast Editor Music Selections: 1. Song Title: Tahi Roots Mix (First Voices Radio Theme Song) Artist: Moana and the Moa Hunters Album: Tahi (1993) Label: Southside Records (Australia and New Zealand) (00:00:22) 2. Song Title: Storm (SINGLE, 2023) Artist: Otyken Label: N/A (00:25:05) 3. Song Title: Red Flags feat. Aleah Bell Artist: PLEX Album: Who Am I To Judge? (2022) Label: Merilainen Music Inc. (00: 48:15) 4. Song Title: Imba Artist: Otyken Album: Kykakacha (2021) Label: Aboriginal Records (00:51:17) AKANTU INSTITUTE Visit Akantu Institute, an institute that Tiokasin founded with a mission of contextualizing original wisdom for troubled times. Go to https://akantuinstitute.org/ to find out more and consider joining his Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/Ghosthorse. 

Today, a studio visit with collage artist Judy Bowman. In less than a decade, Bowman's bright, textured collages have gained a national audience and collector base. She's shown her art in New York, at Art Basel Miami, and her first solo exhibition, called “Gratiot Griot,” is currently wrapping up at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. But despite her national fame, Bowman is, admittedly, a homebody. Her home is her studio. She lives and works in Romulus, and her artwork prominently features the scenes and people of her childhood in Detroit's Black Bottom and Eastside. ___ Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amna Asghar  (b. 1984, Detroit, MI) appropriates, layers, and remixes imagery from personal archives, popular culture, and art history, allowing the interactions to conjure hybrids and reflect the complexities of the location of identity. Asghar lives and works in Detroit. Her first institutional solo show, Well Wishes, curated by Jova Lynne, opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in 2021. In addition to two previous shows at Klaus von Nichtssagend, Asghar has had solo as well as group shows with Belle Isle Viewing Room, Detroit. Her work was a part of a series of group exhibitions curated by Sally Howell, Osman Khan, and Razi Jafri titled Halal Metropolis across metro Detroit and two exhibitions curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Parallels and Peripheries: Migration and Mobility, and On The Road II at VisArts, Rockville, MD and at Oolite Arts in Miami, FL respectively. Asghar received her BFA at Michigan State University and her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Amna Asghar Find A Home, 2022 acrylic on canvas 84 × 120 inches (213.36 × 304.80 cm) Amna Asghar, A Meadow in the Clouds, 2022 acrylic on canvas 72 × 72 inches (182.88 × 182.88 cm) Amna Asghar Well Wishes V, 2022 acrylic on canvas 60 × 48 inches (152.40 × 121.92 cm)

In this episode, I talk with Tyanna Buie. Tyanna is a visual artist whose work is exhibited nationally, including shows at the Haggerty Museum of Art, The Red Bull House of Art, and The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. She also is the Section Chair of Printmaking at the College for Creative Studies. Tyanna and I discuss how growing up in the foster care system shaped her approach to art and how she goes about inspiring young artists to find their own voices. Tyanna also answers a listener's question about creating safe spaces for teaching art to children. More information about Tyanna, including a link to her artwork, can be found at www.TalkingAboutKids.com.

Detroit-based creative, Sterling Toles, is best known for his deep catalogue of sounds, beats and pieces. Not to mention the profound gems he's known to drop about compassion, identity, and humanity. As if that isn't plenty, Sterling is also an accomplished painter, and he has now expanded into mixed media and metalwork. His first solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is called s(h)elves, and it's on view now through June 12. GUEST:  Sterling Toles, multimedia artist, healer through sound ---- Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. All music in today's episode is by Sterling Toles. Stateside's theme music is by 14KT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Karla Diaz was born in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2003 and a BA from California State University Los Angeles in 1999. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; LAXART, Hollywood, CA; Pitzer College, Claremont, CA; California State University Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; the Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.; and Museo Case de Cervantes, Madrid, Spain.She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from Art Matters, New York, NY; Tiffany Foundation, New York, NY; City of Los Angeles, CA; Riverside Art Museum, CA; and CalArts, Los Angeles, CA. Karla Diaz lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. 

You most likely have already heard of her Erika B Hess from I like Your Work Podcast but we will try and give her the intro she deserves anyway! In this episode Erika and I casually chat candidly about our lives as female creatives taking on the world while basking in the realities of parenthood. Stay tuned for our upcoming collab and CALL FOR ART: https://www.brandihofer.ca/callforart Erika b Hess is a painter recognized for her use and interest in colour. Her work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Find her here: https://www.erikabhess.com/ @ilikeyourworkpodcast and @erikabhess

Kimia Ferdowsi Kline earned an M.F.A. at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a B.F.A. in painting from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was named a Danforth Scholar.   She has mounted solo exhibitions at Turn Gallery (New York), Marrow Gallery (San Francisco), The Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery at Wayne State University (Detroit) and 68 Projects (Berlin). Select group shows include Ceysson & Bénétière, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, CANADA Gallery, PACE University, and The Drawing Center. In 2015 she was awarded a grant and residency through the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2018 she was honored to be nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant. Most recently, she is thrilled to be working on a monograph with Radius Books, set to release in 2022. Guest lectures and teaching include Yale University, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, SUNY Purchase, Lipscomb University, The Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn College, Wayne State University, and Chautauqua Institute.    As a freelance curator, she consults for various private collectors and corporations.   Select press includes, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Cultured Magazine, New American Paintings, Architectural Digest, The Harvard Advocate, Departures Magazine, & Travel + Leisure. She splits her time between Nashville and New York. Since Covid she has spent most of her time in her hometown of Nashville. I caught up with Kimia for a chat about parenthood, jewelrymaking, bluegrass, music city, materiality and much more. S&V is sponsored by Fulcrum Coffee Roasters. Fulcrum Coffee Roasters is a place of discovery, surprise, and delight, inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s beauty, people, and stories. They are a Seattle-based, full-service wholesale coffee roaster and retailer with over 25 years of experience. Their deeply personal relationships, collaborations, and services provided, transform how customers experience and enjoy coffee. Fulcrum’s three unique brands are unified in simple, earnest, and grounding principals.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has a new board member, filmmaker dream hampton. She was the executive producer of “Surviving R. Kelly," and has a long legacy of working the space between art and activism. Today, the interplay between artistic freedom and social responsibility. GUEST:  dream hampton, an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and Detroit native   Looking for more conversations from Stateside? Right this way. If you like what you hear on the pod, consider supporting our work. Stateside theme music is by 14KT. Additional music by Blue Dot Sessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The massive group show with 40 Detroit collaborating together in duos is now on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit through August 8th.

The Black Art Library, founded by Detroiter Asmaa Walton, has made the leap from the virtual space to the physical one by turning an Instagram account into a museum exhibition opening this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Sagarmatha, aka Mount Everest, is the world's highest mountain, and the site of a growing environmental problem. A new initiative wants to remove trash and recyclables from the peak and turn some of them into art. Plus: a year after its founding, the Black Art Library is bringing new attention to great Black visual artists and is itself an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. A Museum in the Himalayas Has a Solution for the Tons of Trash Climbers Leave on Mount Everest: Turn It Into Art (Artnet) Black Art Library is a resource of rare publications highlighting the work of Black artists (It's Nice That) Join us as a backer on Patreon and together we'll make some great art --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message

Jmy James Kidd makes dances, textiles and community spaces. She is the founder of Pieter Performance Space in Los Angeles, CA. Choreographic commissions include REDCAT, The Kitchen, Made in LA 2014, The Broad, The Getty, Pacific Standard Time 2013. Residencies include Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BOFFO, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. She is visioning a Music and Dance Temple to be built somewhere sometime in the next 10 years. She frequently collaborates with her wife, musician Tara Jane ONeil (musical collaborator) Insta: @jameskidd_studio. Perin Hailey McNelis is a dancer and botanist based in Patagonia, Arizona. Perin holds a BFA in dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Perin started working with James Kidd in 2012 as a dancer in the Sunland Dancers group and as the PR manager for Pieter Performance Space. Perin has performed at the Skirball Cultural Center, Machine Project's Mystery theater, the Hammer Museum's Made in LA biennial, the Getty Museum, the Broad Museum and various galleries. Perin returned to her home in Arizona in 2015 to pursue interests in regionally specific ethnobotany and ecological work in the borderlands. Perin joined the Borderlands Restoration Network horticulture team in 2015 and now is the Assistant Manager for the Native Plant Materials program where she manages the seed lab and coordinates art+ecology programming. Perin is passionate about somatic practices, activism and geography - particularly in the form of land stewardship. Books mentioned in the interview were: The Wild Kindness and A Pattern Language. video still from BRINK. 2019, Created and performed by Nickels Sunshine, Jmy James Kidd and Dezmon OMega Fair. Video Directed by Brian Getnick 2019. Costumes by Jmy James Kidd. Sound Score by Dezmon Omega Fair. Current work, iphone video still from rehearsal October 2020 in Landers, CA titled "Believers" Jmy James Kidd (dancer/choreographer), Perin Hailey McNelis (dancer/collaborator), Tara Jane ONeil (musical collaborator)

Today on Stateside , a curator who left the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit returned to the institution and spoke with us about working at the overwhelmingly white spaces in the art world. Also, a conversation about the discrepancies in Michigan State University’s number of COVID-19 cases. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We discuss: Limitations can help creativity, What podcasts podcasters listen too, Artist statements, Writers and curators writing artist statements, Art academia, Art competitions, Always research opportunities, Have goals, Sharon Louden, The overuse of the terms 'artist' and 'curator', The importance of tenacity in an art career, Teaching art online, Being a parent and an artist https://www.erikabhess.com https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com About Erika b Hess is a painter recognized for her use and interest in color. Her work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art's, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, Boston University's, "Creative Capital: Building Collaborative Art Space" and was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center's 2016-2018 biennial. She created the podcast, I Like Your Work and is a co-founder of MUSA Collective, an artist-run collective in Boston. She received her MFA from Boston University. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

We discuss: Limitations can help creativity, What podcasts podcasters listen too, Artist statements, Writers and curators writing artist statements, Art academia, Art competitions, Always research opportunities, Have goals, Sharon Louden, The overuse of the terms 'artist' and 'curator', The importance of tenacity in an art career, Teaching art online, Being a parent and an artist https://www.erikabhess.com https://www.ilikeyourworkpodcast.com About Erika b Hess is a painter recognized for her use and interest in color. Her work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art's, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, Boston University's, "Creative Capital: Building Collaborative Art Space" and was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center's 2016-2018 biennial. She created the podcast, I Like Your Work and is a co-founder of MUSA Collective, an artist-run collective in Boston. She received her MFA from Boston University. Please be sure to visit our Patreon page and help support the podcast by being part of the conversation. The more money raised, the larger the global reach we can offer you: https://www.patreon.com/thewisefool For more information about the host, Matthew Dols http://www.matthewdols.com

Hello everyone. I hope everyone is doubly and triply well today. The world has gone crazy and I am wishing that everyone is making it through this difficult time. China seems to be doing okay and my school was thinking of starting back up by the end of the month, but then I got an update for overseas staff to remain on standby. Many Asian countries are now preventing the Western world from entering in a strange reversal of border control as the virus has spread out west. I will most likely spend the rest of spring and early summer remaining in the US before flying back out to China. I will most likely be quarantined upon my arrival, which I am not looking forward to but is also probably the right thing for the government to do. This is a striking difference to the approach I am seeing in the US, which seems to be leaderless and unable to make a decision about how to do anything in this time of crisis. Anyway...In light of all the terrible things and distruptions happening in the world, I am trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy and try to keep releasing episodes. For today, I picked out a really fun episode I did with artist and curator, Jova Lynne. I met Jova while at Vermont Studio Center in January...which seems so long ago and long before most of us had even heard about the Coronavirus. Jova graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA before heading to Detroit to pursue a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Afterwards, Jova became a Ford Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit before continuing to work there as a curator ever since. Jova has the most wonderful energies to be around and we laugh our way through the interview. We talk about white fragility, learning where to feel powerful, and our thoughts on happiness and success in the art world. We also spend a bit of time discussing Jova's intersection of work as both an artist and curator. I hope everyone stays safe and I hope you enjoy this. Links Mentioned:Jova's WebsiteMOCADQueen NannyJova's Exhibition at Vox PopuliAlbert HuieMarvin Gaye - I Want You (1976)RosaCaleta in BerlinFollow Seeing Color:Seeing Color WebsiteSubscribe on Apple PodcastsFacebookTwitterInstagram

Talk Art NYC!!! Russell & Robert meet artist Brian Donnelly aka KAWS at his Brooklyn studio for a rare glimpse into the private world of one the world's most iconic creative figures. KAWS engages audiences far beyond the museums and galleries in which he regularly exhibits. His prolific body of influential work straddles the worlds of art and design to include paintings, murals, large-scale sculptures, street art, graphic and production design. Over the last two decades KAWS has built a successful career with work that consistently shows his formal agility as an artist, as well as his underlying wit, irreverence, and affection for our times. The nature of his work possesses a sophiticated humour and thoughtful interplay with consumer products and collaborations with global brands from DIOR (with Kim Jones), to his own, now dormant, streetwear label OriginalFake.He often draws inspiration and appropriates from pop-culture animations to form a unique artistic vocabulary for his works across various mediums. Now admired for his larger-than-life sculptures and hardedge paintings that emphasize line and color, KAWS' cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters are perhaps the strongest examples of his exploration of humanity. KAWS has been exhibited at the Doha Fire Station Museum, National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, High Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai, and the Yuz Museum in Shanghai.Follow @KAWS on Instagram or visit www.KawsOne.com If you've enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or email talkartpodcast@gmail.com as we love hearing your feedback! @talkart See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Detroit-based sex educator Zoe Ligon is outraged that her photo appeared in Richard Prince's new show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

- There are more details on the mysterious disappearance of a Detriot house owned by a State Representative - The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit says it’s received a $5 million matching gift as part of its $15 million Future Fund capital campaign.  - Project officials tell us that flooding and high water on the island park has delayed this fall’s planned installation of the two-and-a-half-acre garden by world-renowned landscape architect Piet Oudolf - Want free pizza? Sicily's is your ticket on October 22 - And, buy one get one free burgers at BurgerIM - The Allen Park Digital Cinema Closes - And Fletcher Sharpe checks in on what promises to be Detroit City FC's most important game of the season 

Join us for a fun co-interview with artist Erika b Hess who recently launched her own podcast, I Like Your Work. We talk about artist residencies (I just got back from France at the time of recording), feminism, and being a painter, podcasting and entrepreneurship. Erika and I also discuss the importance of fostering our own artist communities and using our voice as artists. Erika b Hess is a painter based in Boston recognized for her use and interest in color. Hess’s work has been exhibited nationally including Prince Street Gallery in NYC, Last Projects in Los Angles, CA, and Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, MA. In 2017, she had two solo exhibitions, “The Line Between the Past and the Present,” at Musa Collective, Allston MA and “Viewing Light,” at Newton Free Library, Newton, MA. Her work has been featured in various publications including, Poets and Artists, Fresh Paint, Charles River Journal and Post Industrial Complex, a book released by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Her work was selected by John Seed to be featured in, “Fifty Memorable Artists 2015”. She has served on panels such as Cleveland Institute of Art’s, “Feminism Now: Exposing the Truth”, was a visiting juror for Dayton Visual Art Center’s 2016-2018 biennial, and is a recurring juror for the Walker Art MFA Prize at Boston University. Hess is a co-founder of MUSA Collective, an artist-run collective in Boston, and received her MFA from Boston University. I Like Your Work is dedicated to interviewing creative people from painters and artists to collectors and curators. People who are involved in a creative lifestyle and also in building community within the arts.  You can see images of artist work below on the blog or on Instagram at ilikeyourworkpodcast.

With his sharp pen and observational prowess, the Chicano artist Eric J. García brings into focus social criticism regarding discrimination and the double standards in American society with courage and empathy. In this interview hosted by Cristina Baccin , Mr. García speaks about what inspired him to publish this compilation of works in the recently released book "Drawing on anger", published by the Ohio State University Press . Raised in the South Valley of Albuquerque, he r eceived his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, and completed his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. García's works have been exhibited nationally in major institutions such as the San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Latin American Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Every summer, he comes back to Albuquerque and brings his work to his community through the Working Classroom.

Release party for new series of essays hosted at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

On this glorious Episode #102, Troy welcomes the fabulous Elysia Borowy-Reeder, the Executive Director of MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) for a fantastic conversation on art, culture and spaces! For more information on the museum and Elysia you can visit https://mocadetroit.org! And don't forget to follow us @arthouse43 on Instagram and Twitter! You can also support ArtHouse & the #ArtHouseHallwayGallery (see photos below) by visiting www.ArtHouse43.com! Enjoy!

Ett av konstnären Mike Kelleys sista stora verk var att skapa en fullskalig kopia av huset han växte upp i på 50-talet i Westland, en förort till Detroit. Anna Tullberg går på husesyn. Efter upploppen i Detroit 1967, när The White Flight inleddes, flyttade större delen av stadens vita befolkning ut till de rikare förorterna. De svarta blev kvar i en allt ödsligare innerstad. Som en omvänd gest valde Mike Kelley att placera sin huskopia mitt i centrala Detroit, på tomten till Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. 2010 höll Mike Kelley i dopceremonien för sitt konstverk. Huset har en publik och en hemlig del. Vad finns egentligen i den labyrintiska källarvåningen, dit väldigt få personer fått tillträde? Anna Tullberg letar efter nedgången till källaren i Mobile Homestead.

This week Dana Bassett and Duncan Mackenzie catch up with the artist Ben Stone. We are joined thanks to Artadia by special guest host (whose name Duncan has been mispronouncing for years and to his shame this continues here) Elysia Borowy-Reeder Executive Director of MOCAD ( Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit).   We catch up with Ben during the intense run up to his solo show at Western exhibitions which is up now through September 16, 2016.  In a rich conversation we chat about things work, humor and contemporary art, violence, sports, and the magic of therapy. Names Dropped: Harry Caray Sammy Sosa Geoffrey Todd Smith Tom Skilling WGN The Score Sports Talk Western Exhibitions Untitled Art Fair Tony Tasset Tom Friedman David Robbins Maurizio Cattelan Stupidity Absurdism SAIC UIC Detroit Scott Reeder Tyson Reeder Berwyn Chicago police Belle and Sebastian Ben's sister MOCAD Parenthood

Ett av konstnären Mike Kelleys sista stora verk var att skapa en fullskalig kopia av huset han växte upp i på 50-talet i Westland, en förort till Detroit. Anna Tullberg går på husesyn. Efter upploppen i Detroit 1967, när The White Flight inleddes, flyttade större delen av stadens vita befolkning ut till de rikare förorterna. De svarta blev kvar i en allt ödsligare innerstad. Som en omvänd gest valde Mike Kelley att placera sin huskopia mitt i centrala Detroit, på tomten till Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. 2010 höll Mike Kelley i dopceremonien för sitt konstverk. Huset har en publik och en hemlig del. Vad finns egentligen i den labyrintiska källarvåningen, dit väldigt få personer fått tillträde? Anna Tullberg letar efter nedgången till källaren i Mobile Homestead.