Toronto art critic goes nuts for our ‘nascent’ art scene

We know you think you’ve heard this one before, but this time the perspective is from our neighbors to the north — not NYC.

Art critic Murray White of Toronto’s The Star journeyed down to Detroit for a tour of some of the city’s cool projects — Power House, Windsor’s Broken City Lab and the Soup microfunding dinners at Mexicantown Bakery. And while we might disagree with White over how long Detroit’s art scene has been around (trust us, it ain’t nascent), we very much enjoyed this glimpse of our city through another’s eyes.

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The potential is both creative and practical. For Hocking, buildings like Fisher, or the vast old Packard plant, become vast artistic tableaux: Inside the tumbledown sites, he builds installations with whatever leftovers he finds there (in Fisher, he built a pyramid ragged tires bathed in an spectral green glow of the sun strained through its windows; in his most recent work, Garden of the Gods, Hocking placed shattered TV sets atop the still-standing concrete columns of the Packard Plant’s top level; the floor they once supported crumbled to their feet, the columns now reach into the cold, grey sky).

Read the article here.