Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit Institute of Arts
June 2014
Detroit Institute of Arts
A Brief Tour
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
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Founded in 1885, the museum covers 658,000 square feet and includes more than 100 galleries. It's collection is among the top six in the United States, the second largest municipally owned museum in the United States, with an art collection valued at more than one billion dollars.
A few notable pieces: Vincent van Gogh's Self Portrait, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Wedding Dance,
Tintoretto's The Dreams of Men, Rembrandt's The Visitation, Henri Matisse's The Window,
Frederic Church's Cotopaxi, Nicolas Poussin's Selene and Endymion, Andy Warhol's Double Self Portrait.
A successful county millage now makes visiting the museum free for Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb county residents!
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The Other Side of DETROIT: The Detroit Institute of Arts
I visit Detroit's hidden gem for a look at one of the best museums in Michigan. Although, I only show a little bit of what the Institute has to offer, this proves that there's many things to do in Metro Detroit.
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Detroit is the largest city in the midwestern state of Michigan. Near Downtown, the neoclassical Detroit Institute of Arts is famed for the Detroit Industry Murals painted by Diego Rivera, and inspired by the city’s ties to the auto industry, giving it the nickname Motor City. Detroit is also the birthplace of Motown Records, whose chart-topping history is on display at their original headquarters, Hitsville U.S.A.
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Detroit Institute of Arts, the fifth largest art museum in US, possesses the richest collection of world art masterpieces from Ancient Egypt till present time. United States : Michigan : Detroit. (デトロイト美術館). See on map .
Detroit City
Detroit is and always has been a destination for people across the nation and around the world. Throughout the 20th century it held legendary status for its music scene, its architecture, and its troubled but also mythologized history. DETROIT CITY, a new initiative by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, is a multiyear research, education, publishing, and exhibition program that investigates the city’s current artistic, political, cultural, and economic realities, and what Detroit now shares with cities and places elsewhere.
The program regards exhibitions and public programs not as the final outcomes of artistic or intellectual undertakings, but rather as starting points for ongoing research. Thus, instead of presenting a single exhibition or conference, DETROIT CITY examines the city over a period of a few years, engaging with its large variety of cultural production, in order to adequately represent its highly diverse voices.
Recently, Detroit has become a symbol of urban decay, dysfunctional city politics, racial segregation, poverty, and inner-city crime, all of which have been seen as the final stages in the evolution of postindustrial cities in the United States. While this desolate and harsh reality has created austerity in many respects, it has also created an unusually open playing field for creative freedom in which artists enjoy low rents and inexpensive real estate, not to mention numerous uninhabited spaces ready for creative development.
Unlike cities such as New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, Detroit is perceived as a place shaped by genuine artistic concerns, cultural transgressions, and bohemian lifestyles, rather than commerce or the market. Within this climate, DETROIT CITY also interrogates the significance of location, and a location’s particular social, economic, and political realities, as factors influencing artistic production. What does “lives and works in Detroit” on an artist’s CV signal to an increasingly globalized art world? What currency does it hold and create?
DETROIT CITY is comprised of three concurrent series: Detroit Affinities (exhibition), Detroit Speaks (education), and Detroit Stages (performance).
Further exhibitions, conferences, talks, and publications will investigate the history of the American working class though the labor and union archive at Wayne State University and new art commissions; the development of other art scenes that have been similarly mythologized, such as those of Berlin, San Juan, Beirut, and Vancouver; the coevolution of art and music in cities such as Detroit or Berlin; as well as exhibitions featuring works by artists who were born, raised, or educated in Detroit who have since moved elsewhere and are now being invited to return.
Hindu God Statue in USA - Detroit Institute of Art Museum -
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This sculpture is an exceptional example of the Rajasthani school of Hindu sculpture in northwestern India. It is related to the sculptures from the important Lakshman Hindu temple at Khajuraho in north central India. The four-armed Vishnu, the preserver of the universe and protector of all living creatures, appears in a classic frontal stance atop a lotus base supported by a tortoise. He is surrounded by kneeling devotees at his feet, Brahma the Creator on the pillar to his right, and Shiva the Destroyer to his left. Above his head are ten of his avatars or manifestations: the fish, the tortoise, the boar, the half-man/half-lion, the dwarf, Rama with an axe, Rama, Krishna, the Buddha, and Kalki. The sculpture was made to be placed on the external wall of a temple.
Detroit Institute of Art Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest and most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers 658,000 square feet (61,100 m2) with a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2007 that added 58,000 square feet (5,400 m2). The DIA collection is regarded as among the top six museums in the United States with an encyclopedic collection which spans the globe from ancient Egyptian and European works to contemporary art. Its art collection is valued in billions of dollars, up to $8.1 billion according to a 2014 appraisal. The DIA campus is located in Detroit's Cultural Center Historic District, about two miles (3 km) north of the downtown area, across from the Detroit Public Library near Wayne State University.
Michigan
Diplomat at the U.S. Embassy Vienna Mark Bland talks about his home state of Michigan. #50states #MI
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Known as the Great Lakes State, Michigan looks like a hand, and is easily identifiable on any map of the United States and also from outer space. It's located in the northern Midwest of the USA and borders the Canadian province of Ontario. Michigan is called the Wolverine State and is divided into two peninsulas with a land area of 150,000 square kilometers. The word Michigan (pronounced Mishigan, not Mitchigan), comes from the Native American word Mishigamaa, which means large lake. Michigan has the longest freshwater coast in the world: more than 5200km of shoreline. With its population of almost 10 million, Michigan is the 8th most populous state in the United States. Almost 40% of the state's population lives near Detroit, the largest city, while only 3% live in the entire Upper Peninsula.
The French discovered Michigan in the 1600s and founded the city of Detroit in 1701. During the 1700s control of Michigan alternated between the French, the British, and the local Native Americans. In 1796 the British finally abandoned Detroit and their forts on the Great Lakes. Michigan became a territory in 1805 and the 26th state in January
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Michigan is known primarily for two things: automobiles and its beautiful nature.
At the beginning of the 1900s Henry Ford revolutionized auto production by developing the moving assembly line. He and his fellow auto manufacturers (Olds, Buick, Dodge, and others) helped transform private life in the United States and created an economic boom in Michigan that attracted immigrants from all over the world. Today, General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford still produce almost 25% of all cars made in the United States. In addition to manufacturing automobiles, Michigan also builds 50% of all office furniture made in the USA, and is home to Dow Chemical, Whirlpool, and Kellogg's, all of which manufacture products people worldwide use on a daily basis.
As a native Michigander, I am proud of my state's beautiful scenery. Tourism is one of Michigan's largest industries. Tourists in Michigan spend around $17 billion per year visiting the state's amazing nature and its cultural heritage. Among our most spectacular sites are the Sleeping Bear sand dunes along Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island (a uniquely historical island free of automobiles), the Mackinaw Straits bridge (at 8km in length it is the world's third largest suspension bridge), and the Upper Peninsula with the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, the Porcupine Mountains, Tahquamenon Falls, and Isle Royale National Park. Michigan has over 11,000 lakes and is a paradise for fishing, hunting, canoeing, skiing, ice skating, and snowmobiling. We also have several thousand kilometers of pristine beaches with white sand and crystal clear aquamarine water. The climate is ideal for the production of cherries, apples, and Christmas trees—all of which are products that Michigan exports in large quantity across the United States.
Culturally and educationally Michigan also distinguishes itself. Our 15 public universities, 56 private colleges, and 28 public community colleges attract large numbers of foreign students due to their diverse curricula, high academic standards, and pleasant learning environment. Our largest city, Detroit, is home to the Henry Ford Museum, historical Dearborn Village, and the Detroit Institute of the Arts. The Detroit Symphony and Detroit
Opera House enjoy an international reputation. Finally, Michigan has contributed its fair share to the music world, beginning with Motown Records in the 1960s and continuing up through Eminem and Madonna, both of whom are native Michiganders.
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Detroit is the largest city in the midwestern state of Michigan. Near Downtown, the neoclassical Detroit Institute of Arts is famed for the Detroit Industry Murals painted by Diego Rivera, and inspired by the city’s ties to the auto industry, giving it the nickname Motor City. Detroit is also the birthplace of Motown Records, whose chart-topping history is on display at their original headquarters, Hitsville U.S.A.
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R&B Initiative's Detroit Impact - Detroit Institute of Arts
The DIA's collection is among the top six in the United States, comprising a multicultural and multinational survey of human creativity from prehistory through the 21st century.
The team analyzed the connections between city revitalization and the cultural sector, current revitalization efforts in Detroit, and the strengths and capabilities of the DIA to participate in such efforts. The Detroit Impact team will recommend strategies for the museum to support urban revitalization and economic development efforts in Detroit. The mission of the DIA is to create experiences that help each visitor find personal meaning in art.
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum and Public Library across
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.[1] 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).[2] The museum building itself is highly regarded by architects.[3] 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.
The Detroit Public Library (DPL) is the largest library system in Michigan. It is composed of a Main Library on Woodward Avenue, which houses DPL administration offices, and twenty-three branch locations across the city. The Main Library is part of Detroit's Cultural Center Historic District listed in the National Register of Historic Places adjacent to Wayne State University campus and across the street from the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Designed by Cass Gilbert, the Detroit Public Library (1921) was constructed with Vermont marble and serpentine Italian marble trim in an Italianate architecture style. His son, Cass Gilbert, Jr. was a partner with Francis J. Keally in the design of the library's additional wings added in 1963. Among his other buildings, Cass Gilbert designed the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.
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Detroit Institute of Arts
The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), located in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, has one of the largest, most significant art collections in the United States. With over 100 galleries, it covers 658,000 square feet (61,100 m2)[2][3] with a major renovation and expansion project completed in 2007 that added 58,000 square feet (5,400 m2).
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DETROIT INDUSTRY MURALS – DIEGO RIVERA – CONTROVERSIAL TO EPIC
Detroit Industry Murals – Diego Rivera – from Controversial to Epic
One of the most amazing artistic treasures in Detroit – thanks to Diego Rivera - is the are the awe inspiring fresco murals known as Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
The year was 1932, America was in a deep depression and yet this came about due four men – William Valentiner, Edsel Ford and Diego Riversa – the world famous Mexican Muralist.
Rivera receives a commission to create a mural in the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center, New York. He journeys to New York from Detroit.Rivera has a brief affair with the American artist Louise Nevelson.By May the mural in the RCA Building is partially complete. The architects discover that the mural includes a portrait of Vladimir Lenin. They stop his work and remove his scaffolding. General Motors withdraw the commission they had given Rivera to paint a mural at the World's Fair in Chicago. Rivera returns to Mexico. 1932: Rivera receives commissions by the Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan to create murals. He journeys there and creates a mural based upon the Ford Motor Company's Rouge River Automobile plant, the largest plant in the world at that time. Diego Rivera, detail from one of the frescoesEdsel Ford commissioned murals by Diego Rivera for DIA in 1932.[44][45] Composed in fresco style, the five sets of massive murals are known collectively as Detroit Industry, or Man and Machine.[46] The murals were added to a large central courtyard; it was roofed over when the work was executed. The Diego Rivera murals are widely regarded as great works of art and a unique feature of the museum.[47] Architect Henry Sheply, a close friend of Cret's would write: These [murals] are harsh in color, scale and composition. They were designed without the slightest thought given to the delicate architecture and ornament. They are quite simply a travesty in the name of art.[48] Their politically charged themes of proletariat struggle caused lasting friction between admirers and detractors.[49] During the McCarthy era, the murals survived only by means of a prominent sign which identified them as legitimate art; the sign further asserted unambiguously that the political motivations of the artist were detestable.[45] Today the murals are celebrated as one of the DIA's finest assets, and even one of America's most significant monuments.[50]DetroitWilliam Reihold ValentierFrom 1924-1945 he was appointed first advisor and then Director of the Detroit Museum of Art which later became the Detroit Institute of Arts. Under his leadership the museum developed into one of the leading art institutions in the country. His acquisitions and exhibitions in Detroit were products of his wide-ranging scholarship. He was a friend of Edsel Ford and conducted private seminars on the history of art for Ford's family. He was responsible for the series of murals painted by Diego Rivera, having met Rivera in California, and convinced Ford to under wright the cost of the murals. Titled Detroit Industry they were revolutionary for Detroit at the time and created considerable local controversy. His activities at the Detroit Institute of Arts included building an expert staff of curators, a vision of an encyclopedic collection and the creation of a resource for the local population. the state, and the Midwest. --------------During the Depression, they helped to pay the salaries of the professional staff of the Detroit Institute of Arts to avoid a shutdown.When William Valentiner, long-time director of the DIA, conceived the project of having artist Diego Rivera transform the DIA's inner court with fresco murals, Edsel Ford underwrote the costs. Edsel and Rivera formed a curious patron-artist relationship, with the communist Mexican artist finding a genuine admiration for Edsel's commitment to esthetics and design in his automotive industry. Rivera not only immortalized Edsel as patron in the murals, but his canvas portrait of Edsel shows him, then president of Ford Motor Company, before a triptych of the long blackboards used in the automotive design process. Upon these blackboards appears a sketch of the current design project, reminiscent of a 1932 Ford Coupe, which seems to spring from Edsel's mind. According to Valentiner's biographer, Rivera came to feel that Edsel, as a car designer, was fully qualified to be considered an artist in his own right.
The Detroit Industry fresco cycle was conceived by Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886–1957) as a tribute to the city's manufacturing base and labor force of the 1930s. Rivera completed the twenty-seven panel work in eleven months, from April 1932 to March 1933. It is considered the finest example of Mexican mural art in the United States, and the artist thought it the best work of his career.
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Streets of Old Detroit exhibit -- stroll through streets in the 19th century.
America's Motor City exhibit.
Remember the WRIF bumper stickers? I certainly do.
Solidarity.
The Allesee Gallery of Culture exhibit.
Kid Rock Music Lab exhibit.
Information on all the Motown greats -- Stevie, Supremes, Marvin, The Four Tops, Michael, Smokey, etc.
Frontiers to Factories: Detroit at Work, 1701-1901 exhibit.
Booth-Wilkinson Gallery special exhibit.
Doorway to Freedom -- Detroit and the Underground Railroad exhibit -- this is a very powerful and moving exhibit.
Detroit Artists Showcase special exhibit.
Detroit: The Arsenal of Democracy exhibit.
The Glancy Trains exhibit.
Meier's Wonderful Clock exhibit -- took Louis Meier, Sr. 12 years to complete this 14 feet high, 2,600 pound clock made of hand-carved mahogany, a detailed glass clock face, and intricate mechanisms.
Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Detroit, Michigan, United States, North America
The Henry Ford is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana. The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus. The Edison Institute was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover to Ford's longtime friend Thomas Edison on October 21, 1929 the 50th anniversary of the first successful incandescent light bulb. Of the 260 people in attendance, some of the more famous were Marie Curie, George Eastman, John D. Rockefeller, Will Rogers, and Orville Wright. The dedication was broadcast on radio with listeners encouraged to turn off their electric lights until the switch was flipped at the Museum. The Edison Institute was originally composed of the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, and the Greenfield Village Schools (an experimental learning facility). Initially, Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum were owned by the Ford Motor Company which cooperates with the Henry Ford to provide the Ford Rouge Factory Tour and is a sponsor of the school. The Henry Ford is sited between the Ford Dearborn test track and several Ford engineering buildings with which it shares the same style gates and brick fences. In 1970, the museum purchased what it believed to be a 17th-century Brewster Chair, created for one of the Pilgrim settlers in the Plymouth Colony, for $9,000. In September 1977, the chair was determined to be a modern forgery created in 1969 by Rhode Island sculptor Armand LaMontagne. The museum retains the piece as an educational tool on forgeries. Henry Ford Museum began as Henry Ford's personal collection of historic objects, which he began collecting as far back as 1906. Today, the 12 acre (49,000 m²) site is primarily a collection of antique machinery, pop culture items, automobiles, locomotives, aircraft, and other items. The Henry Ford is the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in America. Patrons enter at the gate, passing by the Josephine Ford Memorial Fountain and Benson Ford Research Center. Nearly one hundred historical buildings were moved to the property from their original locations and arranged in a village setting. The museum's intent is to show how Americans lived and worked since the founding of the country. The Village includes buildings from the 17th century to the present, many of which are staffed by costumed interpreters who conduct period tasks like farming, sewing and cooking. A collection of craft buildings such as pottery, glass-blowing, and tin shops provide demonstrations while producing materials used in the Village and for sale. Greenfield Village has 240 acres (970,000 m²) of land of which only 90 acres (360,000 m²) are used for the attraction, the rest being forest, river and extra pasture for the sheep and horses. The transportation system provides rides by horse-drawn omnibus, steam locomotive, a 1931 Model AA bus (one of about 15 known to exist), and authentic Ford Model Ts. The Weiser Railroad is a standard gauge passenger train that travels around Greenfield Village and has four stations. Steam locomotives in operation include the Torch Lake, an 1873 0-6-4 Mason Bogie which is one of the oldest operating steam locomotives in the U.S., and the Edison, a Davenport 0-4-0 rebuilt into a 4-4-0 by Ford. The railroad, unusually for a heritage railway, has a direct connection to Amtrak.
Greater Detroit, SuperCity U.S.A. (1983)
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U-Matic tape containing a promotional video about Greater Detroit produced by the Metropolitan Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau, released following the region's hosting of Super Bowl XVI. Using a montage of shots coupled with a voice-over, the video highlights the features of the area, such as the Detroit River, industry, sports (including the footage of the Detroit Tigers, the Detroit Lions, and the Detroit Pistons, as well as footage from Super Bowl XVI, hydroplane racing, and the Detroit Grand Prix), and the Ambassador Bridge. It also discusses the food and entertainment available in the city, such as the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, ethnic festivals, and the jazz festival. Some places featured are the Pontiac Silverdome, the Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Cranbrook, Belle Isle, the Detroit Zoo, Bob-lo Island, and the International Freedom Festival. Greektown, Lakeside Mall, and Franklin Cider Mill are briefly featured, as well as many other local attractions. Other notable inclusions are Renny the Amazing Renaissance Robot, Alexander Zonjic, a Detroit Citizen's Railway trolley. The video ends with a song about Greater Detroit: SuperCity USA. Much of the footage is carried over from the previous Metropolitan Detroit Convention and Visitors Bureau production Where Else But Detroit (2015.007.055).
The video is on a Sony 15 U-Matic tape with a SuperCity USA label with Greater Detroit: SuperCityUSA 2/83 12:06 Copy 9 typed on it. The tape is housed within a black plastic U-Matic case with a SuperCity USA sticker and typewritten label on its cover. An A/V Loan Request form is included in the case.
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It’s all about water in Michigan…a large and magnificent state that is bordered on multiple sides by three Great Lakes – Michigan, Superior and Huron. Outdoor recreation takes place on snow and ice in the winter, and on the water in the summer. Detroit, aka the “motor city” is famous as the birthplace of the automobile. The MotorCities Automobile Heritage Area contains a number of historical sites and museums dedicating to preserving the region’s importance as the historical center of the automobile industry. The Detroit Institute of Art is home to the Detroit Industry Murals, created by Diego Rivera in 1933. These murals capture the essence of the early automobile industry with remarkable clarity and passion. The Henry Ford is a combination of venues including historic Greenfield Village and Thomas Edison’s original Menlo Park laboratory. On exhibition, one of the phonographs used to make the recording of the human voice. The road to Hell, Michigan is paved with good intentions. The residents of this small town exhibit a great sense of humor about their town’s name and welcome all persons on their journey through Hell. Travelers can visit Scream’s Ice Cream, shop in a year round Halloween store or go to the post office and mail their “taxes from Hell”. For more than 100 years Lionel trains have been delighting kids of all ages. The new visitor’s center displays four different model train layouts with as many as 20 trains running at once. It’s a place where anyone can be a train engineer for a day and learn about the different model trains produced by the company. Cherries are an important crop raised in Northern Michigan and the annual Cherry Festival in Traverse City is a great place to spend the fourth of July. Along the lakeshore, giant sand dunes rise up from the water, creating a stunning location for hiking, water sports and a variety of outdoor recreation vehicles. What does it take to be a Master Bladesmith? Doug Noren would know. Every day he fires up the forge and brings hot metal to the anvil, melting, hammering, grinding and polishing…creating beautiful blades for exhibition and collection around the country. The Upper Peninsula is a wonderland of wilderness and waterfalls. The region’s colorful locations include Tahquamanon Falls, Copper Harbor and the Sault Locks where giant ore boats traverse the impassable St. Mary’s Falls. Mackinac Island is the jewel of the state. Automobiles are not allowed to intrude on the natural beauty of the island so transportation is by horse, bicycle or on foot. One of the best ways to see the historic sites is by horse drawn carriage. Visitors can watch live demonstrations at Fort Mackinac, which was created by British soldiers during the American Revolution, or experience the old world hospitality of the Grand Hotel.