David Klein Gallery    

 
Agree to Disagree: A Survey of Contemporary Abstraction

Paintings by Kari Cholnoky, Matthew Hawtin, Brooke Moyse, Gary Petersen, Anthony Olson and Mark Sengbush; Sculpture by Joey Vaiasuso and collages by Hooper Turner.
 

Opening Saturday, November 1, 6-8pm.

Show runs through December 13.
  

Cranbrook Art Museum  

 
Crandemonium: A Benefit for Cranbrook Art Museum
Join Cranbrook for a night of clandestine surprises as they go behind the scenes to celebrate Cranbrook Art Museum. Food, entertainment and art from Cranbrook Academy of Art's talented alumni will fill their gallery spaces.
 
Saturday, November 1, 7pm -12am. 

 

Whitdel Arts  

  

 

Day of the Dead Offering to Santo, El Enmascarado de Plata

This exhibition explores the battles of luchador legend, El Santo, against vampires, zombies, martians, mad scientists and witches, emphasizing the unique nature of the lucha libre film genre to stage and represent popular values and attitudes. To celebrate Dia de Los Muertos and lucha libre, paint your face or wear a luchador mask, Day of the Dead inspired mask or any mask you want at the opening reception.


Opening Saturday, November 1, 7-10pm.

Show runs through December 13. 
   

Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum
    

 
Future Returns: Contemporary Art From China

Over the past three decades China has experienced profound socioeconomic changes that have prompted calls to revisit, reconsider, and redefine the nation's identity. "Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China" explores the impact of these transformations by bringing together works by contemporary Chinese artists that address China's metamorphosis from a traditional society into an ultra-modern nation. The exhibition takes over the Broad MSU's second floor galleries, and features the work of more than 20 renowned Chinese artists.
 

Opening Thursday, October 30, 6pm. Hear from Broad MSU Adjunct Curator Chunchen Wang at 6pm followed by a reception featuring the Silk Road Chinese Orchestra.

Show runs through March 8.
  

Passenger  


 
Abstracticus
Curated by PASSENGERs co-founder Brian Barr, Abstracticus focuses on a group of artists whose work deals with exploring the possibility for meaning embedded within aesthetic experience, form and material in light of the instability of context in the digital age. With the proliferation of the internet and social media, art works (In images and ideas) travel around the globe in virtual space/time in a fraction of a second. Each time they land or surface somewhere the context of viewing and understanding is inevitably changed. This destabilizing of a works context has lead a number of artists to reexamine formal and aesthetic concerns in one way or another. All of the artists in Abstracticus engage the visual and aesthetics as much as the conceptual or contextual.
 
Opening Tuesday, November 4, 6-8pm.

Closing Friday, November 14, 5-8pm.

 

Power Center for the Performing Arts   

  

 

Ryoji Ikeda's Superposition

Japan's leading electronic composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound and light by means of both mathematical precision and mathematical aesthetics. Ikeda has gained a reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately orchestrates sound, visuals, materials, physical phenomena and mathematical notions into immersive live performances and installations. In superposition, atomic particles meet big data in a visual exploration of quantum mechanics. All of the components on stage will be in a state of superposition, with sound, visuals, physical phenomena, mathematical concepts, human behavior, and randomness orchestrated and de-orchestrated simultaneously in a single stage work.


Friday-Saturday, October 31-November 1, 8pm.
   
 
LECTURES & OTHER EVENTS: 
 
Oakland University Art Gallery   
Michael Flomen Artist Talk:  Michael Flomen began taking photographs in the late 1960s and has been showing his wok on several continents since 1972.
Sunday, November 2, 2pm.

Shadow's of the Invisible Exhibition Walk-Through: Exhibition curator Claude Baillargeon will be conducting a curatorial walk-through of the exhibition Shadow's of the Invisible.
Wednesday, November 5, 12pm..  

Cafe 1923    
Literary Detroit's Ghost Library: Dr. Seuss, J.M. Barrie, Zora Neale Hurston, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and other classic authors will visit us from the beyond in this festive kid-centric Halloween celebration! Open to all ages, the evening will feature "readings" and conversations with "ghost authors," as well as free books and candy.
Thursday, October 30, 7-9pm.  

Mark Chatterly Studio    
Mark Chatterly Studio Exhibition:  An indoor/outdoor exhibition at the Chatterley studio located at 231 Turner Road Williamston, MI 48895. Have a chance to meet the artist and see his brand new, rebuilt kiln along with his imaginative collection of work. All sculptures, large and small, will be available for purchase.
Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2, 12-4pm.  

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History  
Pairing Great Brands with a Taste of Detroit Wine Tasting Experience:  Pamper your palate at the Pairing Great Brands Wine Tasting Experience. Explore fine wines from around the world in the elegant ambiance of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, sponsored by the museum's Women's Committee.
Saturday, November 1, 6-10pm.  
 
ONGOING EXHIBITIONS: 

Scarab Club

Annual Photography Exhibition:

 

Show ends November 22.

 

Gallery Talk with Jenny Risher on Thursday, November 13, 6pm.

  

9338 Campau
 
 
Show ends November 15.   
Re:View Contemporary Gallery


Ed Fraga: Tabula Rasa  

 

Show ends November 29.