by Robert del Valle for Real Detroit Weekly

Art critics and connoisseurs are not known for donnybrooks, but at least one London correspondent has confided that an interlude of polite fisticuffs followed a discussion of Billy Conklin’s works at a certain show in the UK. Conklin is a maverick with a provocative — some say subversive — take on what art is meant to be in a pluralistic society. His pieces have been occasionally likened to “the psychoanalytic concept of transference.” Conklin's... current offering at the Museum of New Art, is non-transferable, but the ideas and questions that arise in your head may be freely taken home at the end of the night. Sweet dreams.