In 1976, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hired W.B. Doner & Co out of Southfield, Michigan to create a commercial. The advertising agency spent two days at the museum, shooting a choreographed riff on ...

With Detroit on the brink of declaring bankruptcy, all avenues to rescue the city from insolvency are being put on the table. One of these is the multi-billion-dollar art collection held by the ...

A major exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts brings together more than 60 Anishinaabe artists, including over 15 from Minnesota, in a rare, large-scale celebration of contemporary Native art.

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is hosting a final outdoor dance party to celebrate the closing of Tiff Massey's "7 Mile + Livernois" exhibition. The previous two dance parties associated with the ...

"We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education." Those words, from Alain Locke's 1925 essay "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts," carry visitors through a set of ...

In mid-June, on a Wednesday, I embarked on a summer road trip with the goal of visiting some of America’s greatest art museums in five Midwestern cities. When you see seven museums in five cities over ...

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