Curatorial Fellow Led Tours: Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley

Name: Curatorial Fellow Led Tours: Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley
Start: 2026-02-06T11:15:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-06T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States, Michigan 48304

Schedule

Fri Feb 06 2026 at 11:15 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States, Michigan 48304 | Bloomfield Hills, MI

Join us for an exhibition tour of "Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley," guided by our Jeanne and Ralph Graham Curatorial Fellow, Katy Kim. The title of the exhibition takes its name from roboticist Masahiro Mori, whose original hypothesis from 1970 describes a peculiar spectrum of familiarity and discomfort when an object approaches greater resemblance to a human being. Similarly, everything in the Haas Brothers’ world looks slightly familiar and off-kilter at the same time—the Haas Brothers informally use this metric in conversations with each other when making decisions during their design process to craft their imaginative worlds.
On this tour, you’ll be guided through this mid-career retrospective of the Haas Brothers through various bodies of work through their delicate ceramic Accretions with hundreds of layers of porcelain slip to their computer-generated landscapes inspired by '90s digital aesthetics. Humorously conceptual and materially playful, the Haas Brothers defy conventional categorization, blending mediums and methods with exuberant curiosity.
$22 including Museum admission, $12 for ArtMembers
Please plan to arrive no later than 11:15am to participate in this tour. Tours meet in Main Gallery, at the entrance to the exhibition.