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Kelley Going Home

Still from Going East on Michigan Avenue from Westland to Downtown Detroit, 2010–11.

In a theater at the Whitney Biennial, an empty façade strapped to a semi lurches up and down Michigan Avenue while the artist Mike Kelley is dead. For his final, unfinished project, a film series and public work called Mobile Homestead, Kelley addresses the binaries of presence and absence, new and old, artificial and authentic while considering his hometown of Deerborn, Michigan. As always, there [...]