Robert Blackburn & Modern American PrintmakingRobert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking
Saturday, March 20, 2021 - Sunday, September 05, 2021
Mar 20, 2021 - Sep 05, 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.
Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020Detroit Style: Car Design in the Motor City, 1950–2020
Sunday, November 15, 2020 - Sunday, January 09, 2022
Nov 15, 2020 - Jan 09, 2022
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.
Saturday, January 30, 2021 - Sunday, October 03, 2021
Jan 30, 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...
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.
Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame BrathwaiteBlack Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite
Future Exhibition
Friday, October 08, 2021 - Sunday, January 16, 2022
Oct 08, 2021 - Jan 16, 2022
Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite is the first major exhibition dedicated to Brathwaite, a vital figure of the...
Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite is the first major exhibition dedicated to Brathwaite, a vital figure of the second Harlem Renaissance.
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and FashionThe New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion
Future Exhibition
Friday, December 17, 2021 - Sunday, April 17, 2022
Dec 17, 2021 - Apr 17, 2022
Vibrant color portraits, conceptual images, and fashion editorial photographs by 15 emerging black photographers are the subject of this...
Vibrant color portraits, conceptual images, and fashion editorial photographs by 15 emerging black photographers are the subject of this exhibition that fuses the genres of art and fashion photography in ways that break down their long-established boundaries.
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.
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.
