it can happen here:

new detroit art

 

with

Casey Conlon

saturday,

january 27

reception:

3-7p

regular hours: 12-6pm Thursday through Saturday

MONA is located at 7 N. Saginaw, Pontiac

tel: 248-210-7560

ARTDAILY

Art Knowledge

@ mona

With this exhibit, the Museum of New Art hopes to question what and where art can occur. Whether what is allowed globally can occur locally. A questioning of art itself, as it becomes more and more about centralized markets, about placement, about the external, and becomes less about history, the sense of place and creation, of the internal that once incited its creation. 

Today's art has become a movement away from the personal toward the collective artist, moving from a single identity and a singular purpose toward a multiplicity that advances only greater exposure and careerism.

Twenty years ago, art students graduated to rebel against everything they were once taught. Today, students are taught the art of rebellion as a matter of course. The avant-garde has been institutionalized.

This small band of Detroit artists proves that exciting new art can happen anywhere. And, in today’s cultural spin, that is as avant-garde as it gets.

- Jane Speaks, from Art Can't Happen Here