Tamar Charney

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Recently several orchestras have built themselves glorious new performance halls, like Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall in L.A. and Rafael Viñoly’s Kimmel center in Philadelphia. But even a super-duper new hall doesn’t guarantee that an orchestra will break even. Last season the Detroit Symphony inaugurated its brand-new performing arts ...

Recently several orchestras have built themselves glorious new performance halls, like Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall in L.A. and Rafael Viñoly’s Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. But even a super-duper new hall doesn’t guarantee that an orchestra will break even. The Detroit Symphony has its brand-new performing arts complex called the Max ...

A Michigan artist finds mortality at the edge of a lake. Produced by Tamar Charney.

A decaying, abandoned train station stands on the southwestern edge of downtown Detroit. It was built in 1913 as an opulent monument to the future of the city, but now memorializes Detroit's industrial ruin. The photographer Robert Polidori and the poet and urban planner Kristin Palm each look at what ...

A decaying, abandoned train station stands on the southwestern edge of downtown Detroit. It was built in 1913 as an opulent monument to the future of the city, but now memorializes Detroit's industrial ruin. The photographer Robert Polidori and the poet and urban planner Kristin Palm each look at what ...