New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The suite of interactive interpretive installations created by Pentagram for the Detroit Institute of Arts. Founded in 1885, the Detroit Institute of Arts recently underwent an extensive six year, $158 million renovation that sought, among other things, to rethink...
News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... to Michelangelo - one certainly authentic - kept at the British Museum in London and the Detroit Institute of Arts," said Heinrich Pfeiffer, professor of Christian Art History at the Gregorian University and the man who found the drawing last year, at the presentation of the work on Wednesday. However, Pfeiffer admitted that the number of sketches attributed to Michelangelo...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Buried in news last week of an FBI raid on the Office of Special Counsel in Washington was -- wait for it -- an insult to Detroit.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
When the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts scheduled a film program last summer, it was partly to keep people coming to the museum, whose regular collection was under renovation for much of last year.
The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
... throat . [NME.com] Adult. will premiere their 40-minute silent horror movie Decampment at the Detroit Institute of Arts this Friday with showings of the film and a live performance. [MySpace.com] Lil Wayne will join Forest Whitaker in the cast of The Patriot , a film based on the true story of five New Orleans high school basketball teams who come together after the devastation...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Because my left foot is broken, and crutches are no way to get around a big space, I asked for a wheelchair at the Detroit Institute of Arts last weekend and thereby gave myself the best museum experience of my life. I think it had something to do with moving more slowly and deliberately, and seeing everything from a new perspective.
Missingtoof (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
With the go ahead from Adult.’s Adam Lee Miller to post this, here is the latest news on ‘Detroit's undying isolationists', taken from their website… PART I Adult. will be premiering their new silent-experimental-short-horror film DECAMPMENT May 9, 2008 at 7:00pm and 8:30pm at the Detroit Institute of Arts accompanied by their own peculiar electronic horror music [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
DETROIT, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Comerica Bank will once again present the "Managing Your Business" seminar series. The workshops, which have been held for almost two decades, are designed to help small business owners and their employees succeed. (Logo: ) The 2008 Managing Your Business workshops include: -- Business Succession Planning, April 24 at Meadow Brook Hall - Oakland University ...
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
[ Oregon Festival of American Music Presents William Grant Still; Koch 3 7546 2H1 (2002)] Detroit public radio station WRCJ, 90.9 FM , announced at its website yesterday: Chamber Music at the Scarab Club Sunday, June 1 at 7 p.m. “Still, Beach, and Kuhlau” Our 10th season comes to an exciting close with Danzas de Panama for string quartet by William Grant Still , Quintet No. 1 in D Major for...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
... situations. In French with English subtitles. 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday at the Detroit Film Theatre at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward, Detroit. $7.50; $6.50 students and seniors. 313-833-4005. .
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
The Detroit Institute of Arts has hired Elizabeth Noble as its new vice president of development. Noble will oversee the museum's membership and annual fund drives, corporate giving, foundation and government grants and other fund-raising operations.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/20/2008
The city's newest nightspot will not open inside an old bank building or a vacated retail store or some other abandoned structure. Instead, it's opening in one of Detroit's most respected institutions, one bursting with more than 6,000 pieces of art.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
'Celluloid Pleasures' reflects on DIA's Ashcan exhibit: Part of the superb Ashcan artists exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts references early cinema's influence on the featured New York artists who captured everyday life a century ago. Five programs of free films make a stronger connection in "Celluloid Pleasures: American Pastimes of the Silent Era," which...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
IF it seems someone is watching every time you go to a museum, you're not far off. Multimedia When the Museum of Modern Art opened its expanded $450 million home on West 53rd Street three years ago, the ticket desk began compiling the ZIP code or country of origin of every visitor, putting the information in a database. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which is gearing up for the opening...
PBS (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
The Detroit Institute of Arts completed a six-year, $158 million makeover in 2007, including the addition of interactive exhibits and a spotlight on local artists. Jeffrey Brown reports on the new efforts to attract visitors and survive amid state economic woes.
