The Susanne Hilberry Gallery was a gateway to the art world that lay beyond Detroit as well as a kind of training ground where artists, art students, and art critics could learn to view and interact with artworks critically.

Natalie Haddad
Natalie Haddad is Reviews Editor at Hyperallergic and an art writer and historian. Natalie holds a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California San Diego and focuses on World War I and Weimar-era German art. Natalie has written extensively on modern and contemporary art and has contributed essays to various art publications.
The Twilight States of Jonathan Meese
Since the early 2000s, Jonathan Meese, who is based in Hamburg and Berlin, has cultivated a persona as a propagandist for what he calls the Dictatorship of Art
Kate Levant’s Invisible Systems
Simultaneously sparse and immersive, Valerian Dials for Trembling Hands evokes the stillness of an ocean after a shipwreck or storm.
Kate Levant’s Chicago Witches
Formally, Kate Levant’s work has become more rigorous and complex since Blood Drive, and the art-activism of that show has given way to encoded references touching on sociopolitical issues.