Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - Sunday, June 27, 2021
Nov 15, 2020 - Jun 27, 2021
Detroit designers have always led the way in car design. The futuristic concept cars, roaring muscle cars, and sleek racers designed in...
Detroit designers have always led the way in car design. The futuristic concept cars, roaring muscle cars, and sleek racers designed in and around the city shape our ideas of what a car can be. Working on paper, in clay, and in metal, their ideas drive American car culture and inform the way we get around every day.
Russ Marshall: Detroit Photographs, 1958-2008Russ Marshall: Detroit Photographs, 1958-2008
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - Sunday, June 27, 2021
Nov 15, 2020 - Jun 27, 2021
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents a survey of over 90 photographs by Russ Marshall whose black-and-white imagery was inspired by the...
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents a survey of over 90 photographs by Russ Marshall whose black-and-white imagery was inspired by the Motor City’s streets, architecture, music and factory workers for over 50 years.
Guests of Honor: Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí Guests of Honor: Frida Kahlo and Salvador Dalí
Friday, February 07, 2020 - Sunday, January 03, 2021
Feb 07, 2020 - Jan 03, 2021
The DIA welcomes three important works by Frida Kahlo (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) and Salvador Dalí (Albright-Knox Art Gallery,...
The DIA welcomes three important works by Frida Kahlo (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo) and Salvador Dalí (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, and Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing), presented alongside photographs from the DIA’s collection, documenting the artists’ imaginative, larger-than-life personae.
Guests of Honor from the Musée du Louvre: Jean-Antoine Houdon’s Portraits of Americans in the Age of EnlightenmentGuests of Honor from the Musée du Louvre: Jean-Antoine Houdon’s...
Sunday, October 06, 2019 - Sunday, January 10, 2021
Oct 06, 2019 - Jan 10, 2021
The Detroit Institute of Arts will present a dossier exhibition featuring two masterworks of French eighteenth-century portrait sculpture...
The Detroit Institute of Arts will present a dossier exhibition featuring two masterworks of French eighteenth-century portrait sculpture lent from the Musée du Louvre. Created by the greatest sculptor of the Enlightenment, Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), the portraits depict two of America’s most iconic founders, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington.
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings...
Saturday, February 15, 2020 - Sunday, November 29, 2020
Feb 15, 2020 - Nov 29, 2020
Starting in the sixteenth-century, Flemish and Dutch artists turned to everyday subjects, describing the landscape and people around them...
Starting in the sixteenth-century, Flemish and Dutch artists turned to everyday subjects, describing the landscape and people around them with humor and loving detail.
The 12th Annual Community Group Art ExhibitionThe 12th Annual Community Group Art Exhibition
Future Exhibition
Friday, December 11, 2020 - Sunday, January 10, 2021
Dec 11, 2020 - Jan 10, 2021
Discover works of art created by participants in the DIA’s Community Group Program, a partnership between the museum and human service...
Discover works of art created by participants in the DIA’s Community Group Program, a partnership between the museum and human service agencies in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
Saturday, January 23, 2021 - Sunday, October 03, 2021
Jan 23, 2021 - Oct 03, 2021
To create the art of our time, artists often draw on their own experiences of the world—from the personal to the political, from the...
To create the art of our time, artists often draw on their own experiences of the world—from the personal to the political, from the aesthetic to the commercial, from the individual to the collective, from the spiritual to the material.
Off-Site | Visions of American Life: Selections from the Nancy and Sean Cotton Collection of American ArtOff-Site | Visions of American Life: Selections from the Nancy and...
Future Exhibition
Friday, June 11, 2021 - Saturday, September 11, 2021
Jun 11, 2021 - Sep 11, 2021
American artists have always found beauty in the people, landscapes, and distinctive cultures that surround them. The forty paintings...
American artists have always found beauty in the people, landscapes, and distinctive cultures that surround them. The forty paintings included in this exhibit, made between 1850 and 1940, offer unique views of the world and the subjects that inspired their makers.
Robert Blackburn & Modern American PrintmakingRobert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking
Future Exhibition
Saturday, March 20, 2021 - Sunday, June 13, 2021
Mar 20, 2021 - Jun 13, 2021
Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking celebrates both the artist and the democratic and diverse creative community he...
Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking celebrates both the artist and the democratic and diverse creative community he developed. Blackburn was an African American artist born to Jamaican immigrants in 1920 and raised in Harlem, New York.
Sunday, October 02, 2022 - Sunday, January 22, 2023
Oct 02, 2022 - Jan 22, 2023
In celebration of its status as the first public museum in the United States to purchase a painting by Vincent van Gogh—Self-Portrait,...
In celebration of its status as the first public museum in the United States to purchase a painting by Vincent van Gogh—Self-Portrait, 1887, which was acquired in 1922—the Detroit Institute of Arts is organizing the first exhibition dedicated to the introduction and early reception of the iconic artist’s work in America.
By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500...
Future Exhibition
Sunday, February 06, 2022 - Sunday, May 29, 2022
Feb 06, 2022 - May 29, 2022
Women artists played a vibrant and often untold role in Italy around 1600. How did they work and succeed in a male-dominated art world?...
Women artists played a vibrant and often untold role in Italy around 1600. How did they work and succeed in a male-dominated art world? The Detroit Institute of Arts will explore this question and celebrate Italian women artists with a show devoted to their artistic accomplishments.
