The city’s new initiative comes after years of penalizing and white-washing independent and unauthorized street art.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She has shown work in New York, Seattle, Columbus and Toledo, OH, and Detroit — including at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research in the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
Joan Didion’s Celine Sunglasses Just Sold for $27K
And her broken clock fetched $35,000 in an auction of her estate.
Did a Children’s Cartoon Predict the Upside-Down Mondrian Blooper?
Binky the “art expert” showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.
Heidi Klum’s Worm Costume Was Good, But the Memes Are Better
Supermodel Heidi Klum’s brilliant worm costume has inspired even more brilliant memes.
NASA’s “Smiling Sun” Photo Unfolds a Galaxy of Solar Memes
The image of the Sun with a smile suggested by dark patches on its surface drew analogies to everything from the Marshmallow Man to Teletubbies.
Dead People Prefer Photography, Apparently
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The Spookiest Images of Early Photography
From creepy Victorian post-mortem portraits to Félix Nadar’s horrifying shot of the Paris Catacombs, we’re definitely never sleeping again.
Is Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum Haunted?
Founder Hattie Bishop Speed died in 1942 — but some employees of the museum say they continue to feel her presence.
Climate Activists Give Monet’s “Grainstacks” a Mashed Potato Facial
Germany’s Barberini Museum is the latest institution hit by the burgeoning food-on-masterpieces trend of climate activism.
This Close-Up of an Ant’s Face Will Scar You Forever
The image is one of many in the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition that reveals the devil is definitely in the details.
The Mind-Bending Tree Sculptures of “Monsieur Plant”
French artist Christophe Guinet’s mesmerizing plaster sculptures mimic the ability of trees to assume other forms.
The AI Halloween Art of Your Nightmares Is Here
We asked the AI image generator Dall-E to reimagine famous artworks at their spookiest. We really wish we hadn’t.