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‌  ‌  ‌ Letter from the Director, August 2020 Over the past few months, important discussions in our country have expanded to include the cultural sector overall and art institutions in particular. The DIA has recently become part of this conversation – a conversation that I welcome and encourage. The role of the arts -- the role of the DIA – and its impact on social issues is a topic on which we have focused much energy, time and thought over the past several years and one that deserves even more of our attention in the future. Continue reading > Behind the Zine with Matthew Thornton: Intro to Zines | Community Partnership Connection The Detroit Institute of Arts In partnership with Inside|Out Literary Arts, will host a four-workshop series called “Behind the Zine” with Detroit-based comic book artist Matthew Thornton. Participants will create their own zine over the four-week workshop. Learn more > Art Talk: Saint George and Saint Sebastian | Art Access Online In this week’s Art Talk, Assistant Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Chaz Kirchhoff discusses the history of the oil painting on wood, St. George and St. Sebastian, created by Italian artist Andrea Solario in the 1500’s. Learn more >  Weekly Crossword | School Field Trip from Home This week, the crossword features one of the DIA’s finest works from the Babylonian era. You’ll have to closely examine the tile masterpiece of the Mushhushshu-dragon, Symbol of the God Marduk to find the answers. Download a printable PDF or complete the puzzle online for fun for ages 8 and up. Take the crossword > Gordon Lightfoot | DFT @ Home  DFT @ Home is a virtual screening room that presents Detroit Film Theatre selections at your convenience and helps benefit the DFT. New this week is Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind. With unprecedented access to the artist, this engaging documentary explores the career, music and influence of the legendary Canadian musical icon. Learn more > A Girl Missing | DFT @ Home  A Girl Missing, is a compelling and beautifully human drama about Ichiko, a middle-aged private nurse who befriends two teen girls, one of whom goes missing. She gets caught up in the media sensation that results in increasingly surprising and devastating ways. Learn more > Shop DIA!  New from the DIA Shop! This 1000-piece puzzle is based on Bank of the Oise at Auvers, by Vincent van Gogh, a favorite work in the DIA’s collection. Perfect for gifting or adding to your own stash, puzzles are a great way to unplug and relax any time of year. Check out the entire assortment here > TATM presents Ordinary People by Extraordinary Artists | For Seniors  This week see how some of the most important French artists of the 19th century resisted the elitist aesthetic of the academic art tradition by emphasizing the people around them and the human experience as subject matter during a transitioning moment in the modernist era. Start this extraordinary experience with not-so-ordinary inside looks at Dancers in the Green Room by Edgar Degas. Learn more > Michigan's Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash on view through August 30, 2020 Learn more >  Bruegel's "The Wedding Dance" Revealed on view through August 30, 2020 Learn more > Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700 on view through November 29, 2020 Learn more > Guests of Honor: Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí on view through January 3, 2021 Learn more > Guests of Honor from the Musée du Louvre on view through January 10, 2021 Learn more > DIA Every Day | See the Collection Online  Most of the DIA's massive, 60,000+ piece collection is available online to browse and learn from wherever you are. Many of these works also have interpretive information right on the page, as well as other details, and images from different angles and perspectives than you'd see in person. Current and past exhibitions are also available online. Browse Art now > ADMISSION General museum admission is temporarily free to all visitors. Visit our reopening page for info and tickets > The DIA is always free for all residents of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties as well as DIA members. QUICK LINKS Parking | Accessibility MUSEUM HOURS Wednesday - Friday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday & Sunday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday & Tuesday: Closed CONTACT Box Office 313.833.4005 Museum Shop 313.833.7944 General 313.833.7900

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Catch the Philadelphia Museum of Art's August schedule.

 

 

Arts of the Islamic World
The term “Islamic art” refers to a variety of artwork made by and for Muslims over the centuries. Islam began over 1,400 years ago in the Arabian Peninsula and soon spread across Asia, Africa, and Europe. Today Muslims live on every continent and make up a quarter of the world’s population. Discover some exquisite examples from the museum’s collection.

 

Artist in Focus: Elizabeth Catlett

 

Mindfulness

 

A Tribute to Nurses and Doctors

 

 

 

Collection Highlight

Monet's Poplars

In the summer of 1891, Monet began to paint a row of poplar trees that lined the river Epte. Learn more from our curator Jennifer Thompson.

 

 

Art-Making
Activities
for Kids

 

 

 

Dive into collection-inspired art-making activities for all ages, free for you to download from our website.

 

 

 

Impressionism

 

Brancusi Gallery

 

Medieval Cloister

 

The museum may be closed, but you can visit some of our galleries from home. Click the images above and use your arrow keys or mouse to see each room in 360 degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The safety and well-being of our community is the highest priority as we respond to COVID-19. All of the museum buildings are temporarily closed to the public. Any changes and updates will be announced on our website, by email, and through social media.

 

 

For more information on the exhibitions and programs listed here, including generous donors, please visit our website.

 

Tile Mosaic Panel (detail), 16th century, Iran (Purchased with Museum funds, 1931-76-1). Sharecropper (detail), 1952, by Elizabeth Catlett (Purchased with the Alice Newton Osborn Fund, 1999-135-1) © Catlett Mora Family Trust/licensed by VAGA, New York. Tara, Goddess of Compassion, 1700s–1800s, Mongolia (Gift of John T. Morris, 1911-98).  Cynthia Blavo, Korle-Bu Hospital, Accra, Ghana (detail), 1964 (negative), 1964 (print), by Paul Strand (The Paul Strand Retrospective Collection, 1915-1975, gift of the estate of Paul Strand, 1980-21-408) © Paul Strand Archive/Aperture Foundation. Poplars, End of Autumn (detail), 1891, by Claude Monet (Bequest of Anne Thomson in memory of her father, Frank Thomson, and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Clarke Thomson, 1954-66-8). Photo by Elizabeth Leitzell.

 

 

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Try the new normal for art: Sunday Highlights at UNTITLED, ART Online The fair continues until 11:59pm tonight, and there is much to see and do!

Tsedaye Makonnen, Senait & Nahom. The Peacemaker & The Comforter, 2019 Acrylic mirror, LED light bulbs, wire mesh, MDF, lighting wiring, Various Edition of 3. Courtesy the artist and Addis Fine Art.

Sunday Highlights at UNTITLED, ART Online

The fair continues until 11:59pm tonight, and there is much to see and do! Join us at 12:00pm EDT for a conversation with artist Tsedaye Makonnen and curator Niama Safia Sandy. Makonnen, presenting a solo booth with Addis Fine Art, is a multidisciplinary artist whose studio, curatorial, and research-based practice threads together her identity as a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, a Black American woman, doula, and a mother. Her work is both an intimate memorialization and a protective sanctuary for Black lives.  Read more about Makonnen and Sandy and register for the talk here. In addition, we are pleased to offer two live tours of the fair this afternoon.  At 1:30pm EDT, Head of Exhibitor Relations Krysta Eder will be joined by Mélanie Faure, Director of Sales, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles to discuss the gallery's booth presentation along with other fair highlights. Register here. At 3:00pm EDT, Artist TR Ericsson will discuss his solo booth presentation with Harlan Levey Projects. Ericsson's epic mixed-media project “Crackle & Drag” is a life’s work, which takes on challenging social issues and existential concerns in an extremely intimate and vulnerable exploration of family history. Working in a variety of mediums Ericsson’s deadpan photo-conceptualism has a graphic sensibility that often combines conventional printing technologies with surprising material and process twists that reflect the DIY punk spirit of his youth, as well as his training as a painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Register here. Below, view a selection of works presented by Latin American galleries selected by Artistic Director Omar López-Chahoud. Click on the images below to view the works on the gallery pages. We hope you enjoy the fair today! Warmly, The team at UNTITLED, ART Tsedaye Makonnen, Senait & Nahom. The Peacemaker & The Comforter, 2019 Acrylic mirror, LED light bulbs, wire mesh, MDF, lighting wiring, Various Edition of 3. Courtesy the artist and Addis Fine Art. Sunday Highlights at UNTITLED, ART Online The fair continues until 11:59pm tonight, and there is much to see and do! Join us at 12:00pm EDT for a conversation with artist Tsedaye Makonnen and curator Niama Safia Sandy. Makonnen, presenting a solo booth with Addis Fine Art, is a multidisciplinary artist whose studio, curatorial, and research-based practice threads together her identity as a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, a Black American woman, doula, and a mother. Her work is both an intimate memorialization and a protective sanctuary for Black lives.  Read more about Makonnen and Sandy and register for the talk here. In addition, we are pleased to offer two live tours of the fair this afternoon.  At 1:30pm EDT, Head of Exhibitor Relations Krysta Eder will be joined by Mélanie Faure, Director of Sales, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles to discuss the gallery's booth presentation along with other fair highlights. Register here. At 3:00pm EDT, Artist TR Ericsson will discuss his solo booth presentation with Harlan Levey Projects. Ericsson's epic mixed-media project “Crackle & Drag” is a life’s work, which takes on challenging social issues and existential concerns in an extremely intimate and vulnerable exploration of family history. Working in a variety of mediums Ericsson’s deadpan photo-conceptualism has a graphic sensibility that often combines conventional printing technologies with surprising material and process twists that reflect the DIY punk spirit of his youth, as well as his training as a painter, printmaker and draughtsman. Register here. Below, view a selection of works presented by Latin American galleries selected by Artistic Director Omar López-Chahoud. Click on the images below to view the works on the gallery pages. We hope you enjoy the fair today! Warmly, The team at UNTITLED, ART Vist UNTITLED, ART Online

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Martha.Corseaden's Art Barn ! Catch the 180 paintings by 14 artists. A Covid-19 Safe Viewing - Two Shows in One! Thank you for your Support! Supporting Artists Of All Kinds Since 1971.

Anne Diggory Painting: Side by Side 36X24” a/c

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