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Please note that MOCAD will be CLOSED at 5 pm April 20th, 2008 for installation of its next exhibitions: considering Detroit and considering Architecture: Sustainable Designs from Detroit, and will reopen at 7 pm May 10th, 2008 for the opening. We apologize for any inconvenience. |
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| Top to bottom: Gordon Newton, Untitled (Swordfish), courtesy Wayne State University; Visitor's Center for the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Gateway, 2006 by Hamilton Anderson Associates; Nomo; and Monster Island |
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Saturday, May 10
7PM: OPENING RECEPTION FOR considering DETROIT AND considering ARCHITECTURE: SUSTAINABLE DESIGNS FROM DETROIT
9PM: MUSIC BY NOMO,
AND
MONSTER ISLAND PERFORMING THE SHADOW PLAY "REHEARSAL FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF MU"
$5 general admission
Free for members
Cash Bar
considering Detroit is the first in a projected series that will explore contemporary art somehow linked to the Detroit area, and document this recent artistic activity. considering Detroit will include five visual artists, one poet, and a collective. They are: Ellen Cantor, Maurice Greenia Jr. (Maugre), Jim Gustafson, Allie McGhee, Heather McGill,
Gordon Newton, and the artist collective TIME STEREO.
In conjunction with MOCAD's considering Detroit show, considering Architecture: Sustainable Designs from Detroit will also be on view. This show will include the designs, architecture and products of several local area architecture firms and highlight their projects that include "green" or sustainable design practices.
MOCAD is a proud participant in:
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HOLY
HIP-HOP!
NEW PAINTINGS BY ALEX MELAMID
and ADDENDUM: EXPRESSIONS FROM THE HIP-HOP COMMUNITY
On Sale Now
Icons from the world of hip-hop music are the subject
of the catalogue for this extraordinary exhibition
of portraits by Russian-born American painter Alexander
Melamid, the outspoken artist who once had his
work dismantled and bulldozed by the Soviet government.
This catalogue is being sold with a 24-page insert
that includes writing by activists and artists
from Detroit's hip-hop community, jessica Care
moore, Khalid el-Hakim, and Invincible & Jenny
Lee/Detroit Summer. |
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The exhibition ReFusing
Fashion: Rei Kawakubo is on view at MOCAD until
April 20. Photo by Corine Smith.
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Museum
Tours
Wednesdays and Sundays at 1 pm
Saturday 1pm & 4 pm
Free and open to the public
For school groups or larger groups, please contact Faina Lerman at flerman@mocadetroit.org.
Museum Hours
Wednesday & Sunday: 11 - 5 pm
Thursday - Saturday: 11 - 8 pm
closed Monday & Tuesday |
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MOCAD
NEWS
04.19.08: Some auction items are now posted on the BE IN ART information page, check them out!
04.12.08: The Spring 2008 Newsletter is now available for download! Download it here.
03.31.08: Tickets for BE IN ART, the next MOCAD fundraiser scheduled for May 3, 2008, are now on sale. Visit the BE IN ART page for more information and ticket prices.
03.29.08: MOCAD announces its upcoming exhibition, considering Detroit, to open on May 10, 2008. Click here for more information.
03.26.08: Read an article on Martha Colburn, an artist peforming at MOCAD GOLD, in an article by Michael Jackman of The Metro Times.
03.26.08: Read an article about GOLD: A fundraiser for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit by K. Michelle Morgan of C & G Newspapers.
03.12.08: Read about the film MOCAD is screening on March 14 - My Name is Albert Ayler - in The Metro Times.
03.09.08: See "Prelates
and Rappers Strike a Pose" on Alex Melamid's Holy
Hip-Hop! in the New York Times.
03.08.08: Tickets for GOLD, a fundraiser
for MOCAD organized by MOCAD's New Wave, are now on sale. Click
here to learn more more about the event and purchase
tickets.
03.09.08: New publications on sale now: Holy
Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid and the addendum, Expressions
from the Hip-Hop Community. Click
here for details.
02.07.08: Read "Hip-hop luminaries
painted as royalty in new Detroit exhibition," an article
by Natasha Robinson on MOCAD's newest exhibition: Holy
Hip-Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid.
News Archive
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