Detroit Collaborative Canvas Gilda Award-winning painter and muralist Oshun Williams led a workshop for the local community at the DIA Midbrow Editor 19 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Oakland Jewels of Emerald Precision Painter Kelly Ording presents a unified green palette that's precise, conceptually centered, and geometrically bedazzling. Agustín Maes 18 Sep 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Lib Art: It’s Not Political A library staff art show offers small—if marginally confusing—fun. Sarah Bass 18 Sep 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa In “Dinkum Hokum” And “STATE OF THE UNION,” Artists Respond To A Weird Time Digital dissociation and nationalistic idiocy are two of the most important undercurrents in American society today; it’s exciting to see artists take on both with such vigor. Z.B. Reeves 16 Sep 2025 · 5 min read
Detroit SustainACity: An Environmental Art Exhibition by and for Detroiters Exhibition highlights the intersection of environmental justice and art. Midbrow Editor 15 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Detroit Pewabic Hosts Final Summer Market of the Season The last market of the season brought the community together for a day of creativity and connection Midbrow Editor 15 Sep 2025 · 2 min read
Tulsa Pomegranate Smears, Bloody Projections, Ghost Cowboys, And An Alien Playing Basketball Exhibitions by Olivia Maday and Josiah Bolth present layered and upsetting visions of a phantasmagorical world Alicia Chesser 22 Aug 2025 · 6 min read
Detroit Artemisia Gentileschi Play Mostly Slays The renaissance painter, renowned by feminists, meets her biblical muse in a workshop theater production. Erica Hobbs 14 Aug 2025 · 5 min read
New Haven Sound, Time, Memory, Wind Collaborative exhibit hits all the senses. Midbrow Editor 27 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa In “A Relentless Pursuit,” Freedom Of Expression Is Not A Given William Livingston’s posters, produced in prison, point to more than the concerts they advertise. Z.B. Reeves 17 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit ‘The House of Tarot’ Exhibit Gives Us Major ‘Silent Hill’ Vibes (in a good way) Inside Detroit’s former Herman Kiefer Hospital complex, 22 artists bring their vision of the tarot’s Major Arcana cards to life Randiah Camille Green 2 May 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Artists Take It Outside Detroit park turns art gallery, for Earth Day festivites. Erica Hobbs 29 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa “Flowers Shall Grow” Helped Me Make Meaning Out Of Loss Mery McNett’s solo exhibition examines grief with bright colors, interactive elements, and—yes—flowers. Meredith Boe 25 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Detroit Charles H. Wright’s ‘Luminosity’: A Black Detroit Arts Gathering For The Ages African American History Museum’s 60th year celebrated with work from over 30 artists Randiah Camille Green 24 Apr 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa 50 Years After The Fall Of Saigon, An Art Exhibition Reflects This isn’t a showy show; it asks you to slow down, to stand in the midst of a long history and listen for the ways it speaks in the present. Alicia Chesser 18 Apr 2025 · 5 min read
Tulsa I Failed To Consider The Lilies Their largeness and pleasingness are just about the only things you can say about them. Z.B. Reeves 7 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Oakland Proud to be Scratchy At the opening of the special exhibition “Creative Growth at 50: A Visual History,” a woman with a guide cane asked if I’d seen her reflectors. I didn’t know who she was, and I didn’t know what reflectors she was referring to. She held out her hand… Agustín Maes 19 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Oakland A Sophisticated Forest I certainly didn’t expect Ross-esque paintings, and the works on exhibit are definitely not “happy little trees.”…This is a decidedly more sophisticated forest than those broadcast on PBS years ago. Agustín Maes 27 Aug 2024 · 4 min read