A radical art collective that emerged from Ann Arbor 50 years ago is coming home to Metro Detroit.

Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills is now celebrating Destroy All Monsters with "Mythic Chaos: 50 Years of Destroy All Monsters," a major exhibition that opened Nov. 2 and runs through March 1, 2026.

Formed in 1974 by Cary Loren, Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Niagara, Destroy All Monsters — named after a Japanese horror movie — fused art, music, film and performance into a rebellious exploration of pop culture during the post-hippie, pre-punk years.

“I think we were kind of in between the punk rock stuff that was starting to form at that time, around '74, '75 — like Patti Smith and the Ramones," says Cary Loren, who has been storing the collective's archive in his Oak Park bookstore, Boo

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