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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Detroit. MOCAD is housed in a 22,000-square-foot (2,000 m 2) building, a converted former auto dealership designed by Albert Kahn. The architecture of the building was left intentionally raw and unfinished. [1]
The old Detroit Museum of Art building opened in 1888 at 704 E. Jefferson Avenue (it was finally demolished in 1960). The Detroit Museum of Art board of trustees changed the name to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1919 and a committee began raising funds to build a new location with Scripps still at the helm.
The Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit or CAID is a community based non-profit organization. CAID fosters and promotes the link between contemporary arts and contemporary society through exhibitions, performances, critical and public discourse and the funding of contemporary arts and art related activities.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit are also located in the Art Center area. Substantial residential areas, including the East Ferry Avenue Historic District and late-19th century homes to the east of the Detroit Institute of Art. These neighborhoods ...
The Detroit Historic District Commission approved the continued construction of the Schaap Center for Performing Arts 6-0. ... with the back of the art center facing Detroit, quite literally ...
House Bill 4177, introduced by state Rep. Tyrone Carter, D-Detroit, would allow counties to establish historical museum authorities — and the bill is written to allow the Wright and the Detroit ...
Kunsthalle Detroit is a non-profit 501(c)(3) art institution that is focused on contemporary visual art that uses light as a medium. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The institution was formed in 2009 in Detroit, Michigan by Tate Osten, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] who has stated that she chose light art because it shows how the 21st century has progressed with technology. [ 6 ]
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