In 2016 we launched the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Art in America Arts Writing Fellowships, a joint project designed to foster art and culture writing in cities throughout the US. For our Septembe…
As downtown neighborhoods begin to gentrify, Detroit's artistic community continues the feisty, freewheeling mode of cultural entrepreneurship that saw it through the city's darkest days.
This past April, I spent a week in Detroit. I grew up about 20 minutes outside the city, though I've been in New York for the last decade. My parents lived in the Detroit area for more than 60 years…