Arts & Entertainment - Art

July 2008

ART

Art Gallery of Windsor: Walking Into the Vanishing Point: Conceptual Works by Bill Vazari continues the AGW’s investigation into conceptual art and photography. The exhibition is curated by Marie-Josée Jean and continues through Aug. 31. • I Just Want  to Be Taken Seriously as an Artist… Clown Portraits by Shari Hatt is a hard-hitting, full-color still and video image gallery of stereotypical subjects. Through Aug. 31. • Charles Meanwell: Windsor Paintings continues through Aug. 24. • $3; members free. 401 Riverside Drive West, Windsor, Ontario; 519-977-0013; agw.ca.

Cranbrook Art Museum: Craft in America: Expanding Traditions is a nationally touring historical survey of the many cultures and movements that have contributed to the development and refinement of American crafts. Through Sept. 14. • Toshiko Takaezu presents the museum’s entire collection of 31 works spanning the entire career of this 1954 CAA grad and one of the foremost ceramic artists of the 20th century. This exhibition is a celebration of the recent gift of 14 pieces by the artist to CAM, through Sept. 14. • Richard DeVore: Retrospective and “Last Works” is the first major museum exhibition of the artist’s career in more than 20 years. It includes rare ceramics and mixed-media objects from the first decades of DeVore’s professional career, a wide body of vessels, and a selection of never-seen pieces created just before his 2006 death.  Free to members, seniors, and children; $4-$6 for adults and teens. 39221 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills; 877-462-7262; cranbrookart.edu.

Detroit Institute of Arts: Give It a Rest: People at Play in American Prints and Drawings 1895-1945 is a collection of about 100 prints on paper. Offering a reflection of casual times in daily life, this exhibit features images by Childe Hassam and Guy Pène du Bois, lithographs from Edward Penfield and William Carqueville, and works by artists employed through the Works Progress Administration during the late 1930s. Through Aug. 3. • Kenro Izu: Sacred Places brings more than 50 black-and-white photographs of spiritual landmarks from around the world to the DIA via the Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, Mass. July 9-Oct. 12. Among the July programs at the DIA, artist Jo Powers gives a demonstration July 19th, from 1-5 p.m. $8 adults;
 $4 ages 6-17;
 $6 seniors. Wed., Thur.: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fri.: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sat.-Sun.: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Closed Mon.-Tue. 5200 Woodward, Detroit; 313-833-7900; dia.org.

Museum of New Art (MONA): Changing Cities: Berlin is the third installment of the museum’s Changing Cities exchange, The MONA is hosting artists from Galerie Eva Bracke in Berlin. Olivia Berckemeyer, Christoph Dettmeier, Andrew Gilbert, Franziska Hufnagel, Florin Kompatscher, Alexej Koschkarow, Joe Neave, Max Schulze, and Astrid Sourkova bring their drawings, paintings, video works, and photographs to be displayed alongside works by Detroit artists Dietmar Krumrey, Rachel Hunt Cyrus Karimipour, Alison Wong, Dick Goody, Hartmut Austen, Stig Eklund, Mary Fortuna, Marla Karimipour, Kelly Frank, Jacque Liu, Vagner Whitehead, and Kyohei Abe. Meet the artists from 6-9 p.m. on July 5. Continues through Aug. 9. 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac; 248-210-7560; detroitmona.com.