While in Cleveland on the weekend the local NPR radio station in the area had numerous advertisements for the Akron Art Museum and its photographic exhibition.
""Detroit Disassembled". The radio advertisement goes on to promote the exhibit showing Detroits rubbled factories, warehouses, and neighborhoods and basically says the whole city/area is a complete write off . It is not a very complimentary ad from a listening perspective.
While one cannot dispute the validity of these pictures and situation to a certain degree and the pictures themselves are most definetly amazing works of art, it appears the exhibit seems to show absolutely nothing pictorially about the hundreds of good and positive areas, buildings, neighborhoods we have. I live in one area that would certainly deserve a picture or two. One viewing this would most likely feel this is all Detroit is about. Anyone know anything more about this exhibit? , I have emailed them/ Andrew Moore querying this...
http://www.akronartmuseum.org/exhibi....php?unid=1499
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