Detroit Institute of Arts
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Local museums offer diverse exhibitions to take advantage of larger holiday crowds...photographs, monumental video and sound installations and New Deal-era prints. Here's a survey of the seasonal highlights at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science and the... In this article: Richard Avedon, Normandy, Claude Monet, New Year's Day, Thanksgiving, Harper's Bazaar, Western Art, and Institute of Science |
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 4 hours ago
Fiction: The art student's war by Brad Leithauser
...although at times uneasily, straddles the traditional novel and the fable. This book with art as its core -- scenes in the Detroit Institute of Art are a short, entertaining course in art history -- is primarily the chronicle of the...
In this article: Brad Leithauser, Detroit, and Urban decay
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Detroit News | 1 day ago
Pair don giant inflated suits to lighten things up on Woodward
...Woodward Avenue Friday afternoon. They drew plenty of stares from pedestrians and honks from motorists as they walked from south of the Detroit Institute of Arts to downtown. Kuehnle, a St. Louis native who is an artist in residence at...
In this article: Detroit, Marquette, Albion College, and Church's Chicken
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Detroit News | 3 days ago
Peter Gilleran's lighter works
...to take your eyes off. Community Arts Center, on central campus, just west of Cass Avenue at Kirby Street, Detroit The Detroit Institute of Arts (313-833-7900) opens "Government Support for the Arts: WPA Prints from the 1930s" on...
In this article: Detroit and Wayne State University
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Detroit Free Press | 3 days ago
MARK STRYKER: Arild Remmereit steps in at DSO podium
...album for Mack Avenue with a release expected in the spring. No doubt its current repertoire will offer a preview. 7 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward, Detroit. 313-833-7900. www.dia.org. Free with museum...
In this article: Rodney Whitaker, Leonard Slatkin, Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Hot Club of Detroit, Gypsy jazz, and Django
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Detroit News | 3 days ago
Ellyce Field: Parade, DIA activities, 'Star Wars' concert pack holiday weekend
...mood. Friday is Parade Day in downtown Grosse Pointe. You can shop, see the parade and Santa. It's also holiday weekend at the Detroit Institute of Arts, with PuppetART's performance of "The Sleeping Beauty" and puppetry drop-in...
In this article: Star Wars, The Sleeping Beauty, The Bond Buyer, Star War, C-3P0, Lucasfilm, John Williams, and Anthony Daniels
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Detroit News | 6 days ago
Neal Rubin: On this day in Motown: Calendar has daily history, both trivial and grand
...the facts will thrill and amaze you. For Nov. 23 -- a Tuesday next year, in case you're planning ahead -- it's "2007: Newly renovated Detroit Institute of Arts reopened." That's very nice for the DIA, and for us. But it's not as...
In this article: Motown, Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Historical Museum, Tax, Dog, Continental Indoor Soccer League, and University of Michigan
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Kentucky.com | 6 days ago
Walking girl to school . and into history
...her daughter Ruby going to school when it was on display in the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in 2006. The painting is now at the Detroit Institute of Art. The elder Bridges moved from New Orleans to Houston after Hurricane Katrina.
In this article: Ruby Nell Bridges, New Orleans, Glasgow, Norman Rockwell, Houston, United States, and Hurricane Katrina
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Business news and Fortune 500 - FORTUNE Magazine | November 12, 2009
Making Detroit a tech hub - One mogul's vision
...three-mile stretch between Detroit's downtown hub and the midtown area anchored by Wayne State University and the city's first-class Detroit Institute of Arts. Gilbert acknowledges the long stall in Detroit's revival but blames poor...
In this article: Detroit, Dan Gilbert, Quicken Loans, Quicken, Peter Karmanos, Fortune, Bankruptcy, and Renaissance Center
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Detroit News | November 11, 2009
DIA fundraising gala is a sellout
...News Arts Writer Here's an encouraging sign in a generally wretched year. Despite what you might expect, two weeks before the big event the Detroit Institute of Arts had completely sold out its annual fundraising gala, this year called "To...
In this article: Detroit, Taubman, A. Alfred Taubman, Bloomfield Hills, and Detroit News
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Fox News | November 09, 2009
DIA Opts Out of Free Museum Pass Program
...has caused its most popular venue to opt out. Public relations director Pamela Marcil tells the Detroit Free Press that the Detroit Institute of Arts will no longer participate in the Museum Adventure Pass program because it's...
In this article: Detroit, All rights reserved, and Revenue
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Description from Wikipedia:
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), originally named the Detroit Museum of Art, has one of the largest, most significant art collections in the United States. In 2003, the DIA ranked as the second largest municipally-owned museum in the United States with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars. With over 100 galleries, it now covers 677,000 square feet (62,893 m²), a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2007 added 77,000 sq. ft. (7,153 m²).
The museum building itself is highly regarded by architects. Its original building, designed by Paul Cret, is flanked by north and south wings covered with a white marble exterior. It is part of the city's Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Its first painting was donated in 1883 and its collection consists of over 65,000 works. The DIA is an encyclopedic museum, not a specialist one: its collections span the globe from ancient Egyptian works to contemporary art. The DIA is located in Detroit's Cultural Center, about two miles (3 km) north of the downtown area, near Wayne State University.
The museum has also published an introductory visitor's guide. The Detroit Institute of Arts contains the 1,150-seat Detroit Film Theatre and hosts major art exhibitions.
- Name:
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1885
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