In my quest to be the best gift giver ever, I stumbled across Moose: Art for living. It’s an Australian based website “designed to showcase the products on display as clearly as possible, so that you, at home, can see up close the hard work and effort that lie at the heart of everything on offer.”
It’s easy to navigate and features cool gifts that aren’t going to require an American Express black card. Every day and fine jewelry, art, bags and ceramics are the shopping focus.
One of my favorites in the Art area is Badbird by Andrea Zuill. Her collection “is a range of work elegant in its simplicity and hilarious in its viewing.” “Angry bird print” is my #1 pick and it’ll be hanging on my wall in 2-4 weeks.
I encourage you (note the threat of DEATH) to stop by Detroit’s ever and always inspiring MOCAD.Gal pals Nikki and Lauren planted the seed for a visit and I’m glad they got me off my ass.
Words Fail Me is an exhibition that explores visual art’s ongoing engagement – and entanglement – with language. Language is labyrinthine, its permutations endless: This is partly the pleasure of words. The complexity of language, its ability to both inform and confound us, is – no doubt – part of its continuing appeal to artists. Words Fail Me considers highly idiosyncratic manifestations of language in recent contemporary art produced by an international and intergenerational group of artists.”
“We cruised through pretty quickly but marveled at Carl Pope’s “The Bad Air Smelled of Roses.” I have to say poster entitled “Is it da crack or is it the cracker” had me probably inappropriate giggles. Sorry, I’ve lived in Detroit for way too long not to poke fun at myself or fellow residents. My money is on the crack though….
Also loved Peter Fischli and David Weiss’ “Questions” which is a “five part slide projection work that consists of 400 questions that are projected on a wall is this cute font and swirly design. It reminded me of snippets of my own inner swamp of questions floating around in my head.
The exhibit opens September 16, 2007 and continues through January 20, 2008. Stop by and support art in the city.
