Detroit Institute of Arts

...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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.

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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