‘Make Me Famous’ is about a Detroit artist who stayed mostly unknown


Artist Edward Brezinski, the subject of the documentary "Make Me Famous."

New York City’s downtown art and music scene of the 1980s was a launching pad for several future icons, from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to Michigan’s own Madonna.

Artist Edward Brezinski, a Detroit transplant to the gritty East Village of that era, failed to reach those heights, but he made an impression on his peers. His life in an unforgettable time and place is the subject of a documentary that screens Wednesday night at the Scarab Club — the historic gallery, studio space and nonprofit membership group near the Detroit Institute of Arts.

“Make Me Famous” is described as a dishy, irresistible look at Brezinski’s attempt to “make it” during “the scuzzy glory days of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1970s and ’80s” (as the Guardian’s review so evocatively captures it). 



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