Detroit's Stickwork sculpture hits all the right notes to make highly successful public art, or what might more meaningfully be described in this case as urban environmental art.

As we settle into our new domestic routine, weathering the emotional turbulence that each week (and each new news item) brings, I observe my mind's eye returning, often, to the peace and stillness of Glacial.

We recently ventured to Midland, two hours north of Detroit, to tour the Alden B. Dow Home & Studio, and to Flint, where we visited Lawrence Halprin's Riverbank Park.

The theme of "Common Time" is the dense network of creative collaborations and relationships that typified Merce Cunningham's practice—and that brought dance into fruitful contact with the wider art world.

I got to know David Rubello after I became obsessed with his 1973 mural Color Cubes, a piece of downtown public art I loved that was lost in 2014.

Frank Stella spent the better part of the 1980s and '90s creating more than 135 abstract works, each titled after a particular chapter of Moby-Dick.

The more time I spent standing in front of the piece (and crouching, backing up, walking around it, standing on my tiptoes) the more I saw, suddenly and with the force of a revelation.