Art talk: Programs at MOCAD consider all things Detroit and music before Motown
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
May 29 & May 31
7 p.m.
A pair of special events this week at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit sound too good to miss. The first, on Thursday May 29, will feature a panel discussing art in the current exhibition, Considering Detroit. The second one, on Saturday, May 31, is a lecture by experts on the local music scene before Motown. Each event at
MOCAD begins at 7 p.m.
The panel discussion is moderated by writer and Wayne State University Honors Head, Jerry Herron. The panelists are Davin Brainard and Warren Defever of Time Stereo (the same team behind
UFO Factory), Maurice Greenia Jr., Allie McGee, and Considering Detroit curatorial committee member, John Corbin.
The lecture, Detroit Before Motown, will be presented by authors Lars Bjorn and Jim Gallart, the pair who wrote the Detroit jazz history retrospective called
Before Motown. Expect Bjorn and Gallart to go into Detroit's significance on the national and regional music scenes, from the turn of the 20th century until the 1960s. when groups like the Supremes, the Temptations, the Four Tops and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles dominated charts around the world.
After the lecture: Time Stereo and UFO Factory will present a special music event called
Before Motown, After Devil's Nite.The panel discussion and the lecture are free.