I read an article in USA Today a couple of days ago that said Detroit is starting to roll again, I firmly disagree with that statement. I say this because anyone who lives or lived in Detroit knows that it started rolling as soon as we crashed, it just takes a long time to rebuild a city (especially one with an economy like ours.) USA Today used the fact that the Lions, Tigers, and Red Wings are winning so Detroit is on its way back. While it is a good look that our teams are winning, need I remind you that we've had a championship NBA and NHL team in the past which changed nothing. It didn't bring people back to live in Detroit having that big Pistons parade on Woodward, or the Red Wings Stanley Cup Celebration and it won't.
Those of you who haven't been to Detroit in the past few years don't know how big the urban art scene is there. Let me be the one to inform you that is huge and only getting bigger. Artists young and old have come together to form a sort of Detroit art mash-up. We no longer only have Arts, Beats, and Eats once a year and the DIA (no diss), there are free galleries all over downtown detroit.
To those of us who stuck with Detroit through all of its rough (lol and I mean rough) times, this new contemporary art scene in Detroit is a shining beacon of hope. Though I'm not in the D now I plan to be back there soon to see all of the progress we've made since I last visited.
Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art
