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Exterior shot of the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Jan 20

A Vincent Van Gogh in Detroit’s Museum Was Allegedly Stolen From a Brazilian Collector

A 58-year-old law may prevent the return of an allegedly stolen Vincent van Gogh, which is currently on display at a Detroit museum.
By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
Aug 16

The Next Dimes Square Is Just Around the Corner

New York City is constantly in a state of art scenes gentrifying neighborhoods and changing the city. Dimes Square isn't unique.
By Erin Taylor
Jul 17

Detroit Art Week’s Second Edition Energizes the City’s Creative Scene

Take it from Amani Olu, whose confidence in the citywide arts festival he co-founded is hard to resist. 'It’s already dope here. Just come out and see what we’re doing.'
By Scott Indrisek
Iggy Pop
Mar 17

Iggy Pop Reinvented the Male Rock Star on His Solo Debut ‘The Idiot’

By Ron Hart
Dayne Walling (right) is the former mayor of Flint, MI.
Mar 6

The Drink: Former Mayor of Flint Shares His Experience of the Flint Water Crisis

By Isaac Simpson
Josh Eustis is Telefon Tel Aviv
Feb 20

Telefon Tel Aviv on Electronic Protest Music & Embracing Sparse Sounds

By Justin Joffe
Flint resident Melissa Mays stands with her three boys while speaking to the media after attending a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the Flint, Michigan water crisis on Capitol Hill February 3, 2016 in Washington, DC. A group of Flint families traveled to Washington by bus to attend a House hearing on the crisis and demand that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder be brought before Congress to testify under oath.
Feb 16

Flint Water Activist’s Battle Continues Into Day 1,028, While US Cities Benefit

By Matthew Corkins
The next senator from the state of Michigan?
Feb 15

Michigan Republicans Want Kid Rock to Be Senator Because Fuck It

By Bryn Gelbart
A Bernie Sanders supporter hold up a signs during an improvised protest in front of the media tents on Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 26, 2016.
Dec 21

Michigan Dem Meeting Breaks Into Violence as Clinton Fans Repel Sanders Partisans

By Michael Sainato
Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, addresses reporters across the street from Trump Tower.
Dec 5

Jill Stein Demands Donald Trump End ‘Intimidation’ Against Vote Recount Efforts

By Madina Toure
The DUMBO neighborhood of Brooklyn, see from under the Manhattan Bridge.
Nov 4

Bob Dylan Paints Brooklyn’s Top Instagram Spot, Boyle Heights Galleries Vandalized

By Alanna Martinez
Iggy Pop of the Stooges rides the crowd during a concert at Crosley Field on June 23, 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nov 3

Jim Jarmusch Films a Love Letter to the Stooges With ‘Gimme Danger’

By John Kruth
Mayor Bill de Blasio discusses the city's rent freeze program.
Oct 6

De Blasio Says He’s Campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Michigan to Help New York City

By Madina Toure
Soma just launched a new 48-ounce water pitcher.
Jul 27

Soma Is Solving the Clean Water Crisis With Sleek Purifying Pitchers

By Lindsay Schneider
Ken Downing
Jul 14

How Neiman Marcus’ Ken Downing Packs for 310 Travel Days Per Year

By Dena Silver
The Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, following a mass shooting.
Jun 14

Why Did Orlando Police Negotiate With a Terrorist for Three Hours?

By John Bonazzo
Paraguyan unskilled labor created this elegant arch, on view at the Venice Architecture Biennial.
Jun 6

Detroit, Refugees and Garbage: Venice Architecture Biennial a Series of Manifestoes

By David D'Arcy
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests during a rally at Macomb Community College on March 4, 2016 in Warren, Michigan.
Jun 3

Underestimating Donald Trump—Again

By Peter Navarro
Georgia O'Keeffe's Series 1, No. 8, 1919.
Apr 28

Lego Says It Didn’t Mean to Shun Ai Weiwei, Don’t Call That Art a Vagina—and More…

By Ryan Steadman
A replica of Palmyra's Arch of Triumph with the National Portrait Gallery framed behind is unveiled in Trafalgar Square, central London, on 19 April 2016. The original arch was destroyed by the Islamic State (IS) and the replica has been crafted using the latest 3D printing and carving technologies by the Institute for Digital Archaeology.
Apr 19

Palmyra Arch Rebuilt in London, Presidential Candidates Arts Guide—and More

By Alanna Martinez
John Bianchi in his studio in Bushwick.
Apr 13

How I Get By: The Lives of Five American Artists

By Ryan Steadman
Britta McNeal cries as she sees her son for the first time after he was shot to death. Chaise Sherrors, 17, was shot and killed on Detroit's East Side just weeks after his good friend JeíRean Nobles was shot to death in the same neighborhood. McNeal lost her 14-year-old son a year earlier, also shot. Detroit's East Side is the poorest, most violent part of the nationís poorest, most violent big city. Chaise Sherrors was giving a haircut on a porch when he was shot. Summary: A Detroit Requiem DetroitÖthe word alone incites many emotions within Americaís conscience.† Detroit was the epicenter for financial equality in the U.S., the home front for the ideal of well-paying jobs for the masses and a political force behind a strong middle class.† Henry Ford made Detroit a boomtown.† Five decades after he started, the boom began to bust.† Many reasons are at the heart of Detroitís decline: postwar industrial policies, urban planning, the 1967 race riots, UAW and auto industry management, Detroitís political cronyism, Clinton era trade deals, and quite possibly the mobility of the automobile itself.† It was the 1950ís when Detroit began the long decay that has brought the city to its present state, a time when Detroit, and America, was at its peak. Today, Detroit is Americaís poorest large city.† To avoid being the nationís perpetual murder capital, the police began cooking stats.† In 2008, they claimed 306 homicides ñ until The Detroit News discovered that there were actually 375.† In more than 70 percent of murders in Detroit, the killer got away with it.† Detroitís East Side is now the poorest, most violent quarter of Americaís poorest, most violent big city.† The illiteracy, child poverty, and unemployment rates hover around 50 percent.† The shooting death of seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones by police on Detroitís East Side brought national attention to this quarter over the summer of 2010.† But as the spotlight
Apr 9

These Three Photos Sum Up Gun Violence in America

By Danny Wilcox Frazier
Hillary Clinton.
Mar 15

Hillary Clinton Batters Bernie Sanders in Ohio

By Will Bredderman
Matt Hopper of Flint, Michigan holds and comforts Nyla Hopper after a blood test for lead.
Mar 9

Schumer: ‘Flint May Have Been Just the Tip of the Iceberg’

By Will Bredderman
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