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Features: Isaac Arnsdorf / The Wall Street Journal

August 18, 2010

The Museum Is Watching You

Galleries Quietly Study What People Like, or Skip, to Decide What Hangs Where Read full article

Reviews & Previews: Tom L. Freudenheim / The Wall Street Journal

August 14, 2010

When the Motor City Was a Symbol of Strength

Is it naïve to visit today's Motown and find oneself uplifted by a city in so much trouble? I think not. For starters, the recently reconfigured, vast Read full article

News: ArtDaily

July 14, 2010

Detroit Institute of Arts to Receive Much-Needed Funds to Repair Roof

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) was recently awarded $750,000 from the federal government, earmarked for much-needed repairs Read full article

Other: Laura Tokie / Curator

April 30, 2010

Diego Rivera and the Gods of Detroit

It used to be called the Garden Court, this space at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Two men, a capitalist and a Marxist, Edsel Ford Read full article

Reviews & Previews: Holland Cotter / New York Times

April 15, 2010

The Exotic in the Eyes of African Beholders

For centuries Euro-American eyes have been trained on Africa. We’ve scanned it from afar, surveyed it up close, put it behind glass; Read full article

Reviews & Previews: Detroit Free Press

February 25, 2010

Exploring the art: 3 masterpieces at the DIA

Here are three masterpieces displayed in the DIA's Gallery of Islamic Art: Charger, unknown artist, 1480-1500, Iznik, northeastern Turkey. Read full article

Other: MARK STRYKER / Detroit Free Press

February 25, 2010

5 questions with Heather Ecker, curator of Islamic art at the DIA

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been collecting Islamic art for more than a century, and the museum has always had a limited number of works on view Read full article

News: ArtDaily

December 21, 2009

Matthew Barney to Speak at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- Matthew Barney, renowned for his epic Cremaster Cycle, will give a talk at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) on Wednesday, Jan. 13 at Read full article

News: ArtDaily

December 15, 2009

New Gallery of Islamic Art to Open at Detroit Institute of Arts in February

DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will open its long-awaited new gallery of Islamic art on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. The new gallery Read full article

Reviews & Previews: ArtDaily

December 10, 2009

Local Artists to Create "The Neighborhood Project" at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- Artists Mitch Cope and Gina Reichert will create “The Neighborhood Project” in the Walter Gibbs Gallery in the Detroit Institute of Read full article

Reviews & Previews: ArtDaily

December 5, 2009

Long-Lost Painting by John Sloan now on View at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- It’s been an unusual journey from Fourteenth Street in New York to Woodward Avenue in Detroit for a painting created by American artist Read full article

News: ArtDaily

October 15, 2009

William Smith Pledges Second Major Gift to Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- William Smith, former owner of Allied Film & Video in Detroit, has once again demonstrated his commitment and love for the Detroit Read full article

Reviews & Previews: ArtDaily

October 4, 2009

Richard Avedon's Fashion Photographs Coming to Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) celebrates fashion and photography with the work of Richard Avedon, one of the most influential Read full article

Reviews & Previews: ArtDaily

September 16, 2009

Detroit Institute of Arts Big Art Sale October 1 and 2

DETROIT, MI.- When the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) invited the public to donate artworks for a Big Art Sale fundraiser, the response was Read full article

Reviews & Previews: ArtDaily

September 2, 2009

An Art is Born-Photography from Birth to 100 Years at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- Imagine a world without photography. Now imagine being alive when photography was invented, and how for the first time, it was possible Read full article

Other: ArtDaily

August 1, 2009

DIA Names Kenneth Myers Chief Curator-Alan Darr and Salvador Salort-Pons Receive Promotions

DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts announced the appointment of Kenneth J. Myers, curator of American Art and head of the American Art Read full article

News: ArtDaily

July 22, 2009

Here Comes the Bride (and Groom)-Wedding Receptions Now Available at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is now in the business of renting some of its most beautiful rooms for wedding receptions. While Read full article

News: ArtDaily

July 10, 2009

Big Art Sale to Benefit Detroit Institute of Arts, Public Invited to Donate Artwork

DETROIT, MI.- For the first time in its history, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is inviting the public to donate works of art (minimum value of Read full article

News: ArtDaily

June 10, 2009

Detroit Institute of Arts Opens New Wayne and Joan Webber Education Wing

DETROIT, MI.- The Detroit Institute of Arts’ extensive program of art classes and educational activities has a brand new home thanks to a $2.6 Read full article

News: Los Angeles Times

May 30, 2009

American art gets respect at museums nationwide

Is it a national coming of age? A thirst for new artistic territory? A critical mass of art that has made its way from private homes to public Read full article

News: Suzanne Muchnic / Los Angeles Times

May 30, 2009

American art gets a higher profile in U.S. museums

Long the stepchild of a Eurocentric art world, American art is finding new favor at home as a growing number of institutions showcase work from Read full article

Features: Donn Zaretsky / Art in America

April 2009

Opinion: AAMD Rules Need to Be Deaccessioned.

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Features: Stephanie Cash / Art in America

April 2009

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Press Releases: ArtDaily

March 29, 2009

Princely Treasures of Gold, Silver and other Exotic Materials Topic of Talk at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MI.- “All Glitter and Gold: Princely Treasures from Vienna and Dresden, 1450-1750,” is the title of this year’s annual Dr. Coleman Mopper Read full article

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