Interview: Josh Welton of Brown Dog Welding

The Detroit native speaks on his love of melting metal, dogs and transitioning from tradesman to artist

Detroit’s Renaissance continues with creatives who blend art, design and trade. One such artist is Josh Welton, a Detroit native whose sculptures of cars, robots and animals are meticulously made by hand. He’s worked in manufacturing since a young age, and was always drawn to welding. So passionate about his day job, he began welding creatively for fun, and his company Brown Dog Welding was …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Presidential cocktails, tripping dinosaurs and how smoking is making you dumb in our weekly look at the web

1. Past Presidents’ Go-To Drinks Our Founding Fathers really knew their way around booze, and thanks to Brian Abram’s new book “Party Like a President,” you can now make the same concoctions George Washington and Ulysses S Grant were sipping. Vanity Fair took the recipes to Leo Robitschek, the bar director of the Nomad and Eleven Madison Park, to whip up some of the past …

Keith Lemley: Arboreal

Wood and neon become an unlikely combination in the artist's site-specific installation

Neon and wood aren’t the most likely of combinations, but Keith Lemley welds the two very different mediums into conversation in his latest show, “Arboreal.” For his first solo exhibition in New York, the artist—who has become known for his sculptural neon installations—has lit up the inside of Chelsea’s Mixed Greens Gallery with the geometric neon lines alone; the light is surprisingly bright but at …